12:43 PM
hello all, it's my movie review time!
this evening, got invited again by omy to GV Grand to watch the movie preview - The Change-Up.
MOVIE SUMMARIZED!
Growing up together, Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) and Dave (Jason Bateman) were inseparable best friends, but as the years have passed they've slowly drifted apart. While Dave is an overworked lawyer, husband and father of three, Mitch has remained a single, quasi-employed man-child who has never met a responsibility he liked. Following a drunken night out together, Mitch and Dave's worlds are turned upside down when they wake up in each other's bodies and proceed to freak out... freedom from their normal routines and habits, the guys soon discover that each other's lives are nowhere near as rosy as they once seemed.
From the title or the storyline you can somehow expect what to be expected:
It was another Body-Swap Genre comedy.
You remember those? Through some sort of magic, two characters find themselves occupying each other's bodies, There have been dozens like:
Face Off (1997) - FBI Agent and Terrorist (Technically not a true 'switch'; both men had plastic surgery performed to make themselves look like the other to infiltrate the other's life and learn their plans).
The Hot Chick (2002) - Clive (Rob Schneider) and Jessica (Rachel McAdams)
Just Follow Law (2007) - Supervisor and Subordinate.
etc etc...
The promise of the film title "from the director of Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin) and the writers of The Hangover (Jon Lucas/ Scott Moore)" which I kind of had a lil' hopes to it... but a lil' disappointed in the end...
"The Change-Up" is a stale offering, a low levelled humour kind of R-rated comedy with the lowest opinion of intelligence for its audience. It is the gross-out humour the film supplies instead of wit and charm.
Obscene scenes and foul mouthed which clearly stated M18. Such scenes were a lil' excessive and nutty.
On the positive remark of the movie, once the characters building which the screenwriter had their fun, somehow was managed to balanced up a bit as the story slowly began a gradual transition into something more in depth - problems & family issues, from the dumb stuffs to getting serious for both Dave and Mitch.
In the end they both learn to value their own lives, don't they? :)
ps: all the actors acting were strong enough to uphold the characters. Plus points & thumbsup for that & oh yes! the cute crazy babies too :)
Overall, I give 2.8 out of 5 Popcorns to it.
The film had a lot of potential but just didn't quite live up to it.
but hey! if you wanna just let go yourself from being so uptight from a hard day at work or weekday blues .. perhaps do come and watch this movie with NO expectations to it and have a couple of silly laugh :)
till then !
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