“Family Switch” is a Dad Joke of a movie, genially corny but enjoying its corniness so much that it invites us to enjoy it, too.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2023

“Family Switch” has bits and pieces of amusement, but mostly you want to swap it for a better movie.

| Dec 2, 2023

It’s simply hard to feel all that deeply for characters so flat and sweet they might as well be gingerbread people, resolving problems that barely seemed to exist in the first place.

| Nov 30, 2023

The real nail in the coffin is the film’s messaging about the power of family, which is about as tacked-on and stilted as they come — hardly a shock in light of the rest of the Netflix holiday movie lineup.

| Nov 30, 2023

There are plenty of shots of the dog urinating under the Christmas tree, as well as a close-up of a colonoscopy souvenir photo, and a recurring joke that involves... snarfing down ice cream and then furiously farting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 30, 2023

There’s no joy in candidly observing that if awfulness were incarnated and saw this movie, it would say, “Whoa, too awful for me.”

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 30, 2023