Although the lack of originality of the concept really brings down its appeal, audiences will enjoy watching this recycled story unfold with the two newest performances.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 8, 2017

The finale is shockingly flat, everything petering out in such a forgettable and joyless manner the effect is frustrating.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 27, 2012

The poop jokes are the only memorable ones.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2011

Might have been a decent piece of entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2011

[A] largely uninspired identity-switch comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 15, 2011

The writers keep the swift chatter coming, and the stars have a good time assuming each other's personas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2011

Flee, flee from all of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 15, 2011

The main draw here is the raucous fun to be had watching each character inhabit the other's underpants.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 14, 2011

You'd have to call the whole undertaking workmanlike rather than inspired.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 14, 2011

Despite the promise of the title, this a fairly stale offering, plodding through the beats of a well-worn subgenre but failing to add much more than a foul mouth.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2011

Almost all the potential for genuine comedy is missed in this crass affair.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 7, 2011

We may have seen this stuff before but it could have been so much worse.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 6, 2011

Pee-pee humor abounds in The Change-Up. There's also a lot of poo-poo humor. And ta-ta humor.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 10, 2011

This comedy doesn't work very well.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2011

It's occasionally funny and a lot painful...

Full Review | Aug 7, 2011

The Change-Up goes downhill faster than a snowboarder strapped to a jetpack.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 7, 2011

Bateman, as always, is surpassingly good, even when the material isn't.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 6, 2011

With slight variants, this is another chapter in the epic saga of body shame, gender panic, and free-floating contempt for the human race that Hollywood comedies seem to be issuing piece by piece in serial format.

| Aug 5, 2011

A thoroughly silly, intermittently hilarious reworking of the Freaky Friday body-switch concept.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 5, 2011

What saves it from completely going down the drain is the likability of its stars: Ryan Reynolds, who plays a pot-smoking, potty-mouthed screw-up, and Jason Bateman, his lifelong best friend who's a workaholic lawyer and dedicated father...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.0 | Aug 5, 2011