The Change Up 2011

    A married father and a swinging single swap bodies after a wild night of drinking and do their best to turn their lives into chaos.  It all happens at a fountain and when they go back to the fountain to change back, it's been moved and the city doesn't know where it is?  Dave is a successful lawyer and with Mitch holding the reins it looks like a big business plan may go south.  Now that Dave is Mitch he's not sure how to handle all this freedom from any responsibility.  Dave's wife thinks they are joking and she doesn't believe they've switched bodies.   
     This is better than I thought it would be because the ending turns out to be more than expected.  It seemed very predictable and already done before with some funny moments but the men learn valuable lessons.  There is a LOT of language in nearly every scene.  There is sexuality with nudity, a soft porn movie set and a fully naked and very pregnant woman.  There is also crass toilet humor.  The themes are mature and revolve around two best friends.  The men are nothing alike but they secretly envy each other’s life.  3 1/2* (I liked this movie)

118 min, Comedy directed by David Dobkin and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, with Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin, Mircea Monroe, Gregory Itzin, Ned Schmidtke, Ming Lo, Sydney Rouviere, Craig Bierko, Dax Griffin, Andrea Moore.

Note:  Imdb 6.3 out of 10, Rotten Tomatoes 25% with 153 critics 47% audience with 46,385 ratings, Common Sense Media Sandie Angulo Chen age 15+, positive messages 1*, role models 0*, violence 1*, sex 4*, language 5*, consumerism 1*, drinking drugs & smoking 4*, Roger Ebert 1 1/2*, RollingStone 2* out of 4* Peter Travers, The Guardian 2* out of 5* Peter Bradshaw, Slant Magazine 2* out of 4* Nick Schager, Amazon 4.3* out of 5* with 1,055 reviews, dove.org 4* sex, 5* language, 2* violence, 4* drugs, 3* nudity, 2* temptations to cheat on spouses. 

Special Note:  Leslie Mann used a body double when she walks to the bathroom in slow motion. Most of the female nudity is not real.  Computer generated breasts were used for Mann and Wilde.  This is the second movie in two years with Leslie Mann playing the wife of a man who has a big change with his body.  The previous film was 17 Again 2009.  Reynolds and Bateman are long-time friends.  Reynold’s character Mitch expertly wields a samurai sword in the beginning of the movie.  He acquired this skill for his role as Wade Wilson in Deadpool.  Samurai swords are seen or referred to by the character Mitch throughout the movie.  Filming was done in Atalanta for tax purposes and it was supposed to be warmer than LA in the middle of winter.  A major snowstorm crippled the city for days.  The woman playing Pamela is Alan Arkins wife Suzanne Arkin.