Finally @trumpman was right, and as he can say in his lovely review, this movie is garbage.
When the movie started, I felt like it was not that bad. And then the Ryan Reynolds's character opened his mouth for the first time and everything went terrible.
Mitch, (Ryan Reynolds) is like the adult version of Van Wilder if he didn't realize he was making shit with his life at the end of the movie. They're often describing him as "eating humus and masturbating" and even if that's funny, that's basically everything he is. Adding to that "being a jerk". He's always insulting everyone.
When the real story starts, (they swap their bodies), it's even worst because Jason Bateman looks meaner so now it just like Mitch is mean to everyone.
I think the movie could have been good if Mitch was just borderline but here he's crossing that ethic border say too often. Doing actual sexual harassment, phonically threatening people as soon as he's not happy of something. Plus Jason Bateman is not doing everything the good way neither, he's married but because he doesn't have his own body he's trying his best to date other women and he always stops but after all the steps before "having sex". Like, dating, inviter her to his house, kissing, getting almost nude, starting to touch themselves and THEN "I can't I have a wife" but he never talks about this to her.
There are 2 goods scenes in that movie. The moment each one of the guys realize they did something bad. When Jason Bateman is in Ryan Reynolds body, he talks to his wife and learn that he is a workaholics and isn't spending enough time with his family. And Mitch in Bateman's body realized when talking to Bateman's wife (Leslie Mann) he hasn't been invited to their wedding birthday because he's always destroying parties when flirting with everyone and forcing the guests to drink and smoke because that's ALL he does.
I can't really explain what but I wasn't totally bored or cringed by the movie. Some little things sometimes were working but I can't tell what.
I think there are few things that makes some great moments, but the more I think about it the more I realize that moments made me feel like the wasn't the same movie at all. When we are mostly seeing two characters who just want to destroy their lives, at some points they are doing something great and almost in the good way and there are tiny music trying to make it cute. But I don't really feel sad for Mitch when he says he doesn't deserve the goods things happening to him while during the movie he broke all the rules, drove too fast while smoking weed, have been talking with an Asian accent to a man because he's Chinese but can totally talk in English, have been taking lessons for future mothers just to have sex with them, makes everything he can to have sex with his friend's wife until he realizes she, like every other human, is used to make a number 2 in the toilet and is now disgusted. Yes, No, you don't deserve it, and I don't care you realize it .
The movie is pretty nice though, they put some colored K-way to Ryan Reynolds and I don't really know why but even with this haircut, that totally works !
I really think Olivia Wilde saves the movie. Each time she talks this is a good scene. Probable the best character of the movie but unfortunately she lives really strange moments and fortunately, at the end of the movie we see her having a better time.
But I don't really know what to thing about the end of the movie. I hesitate between saying the end is worth the rest of the movie or if it's worse than the end of the movie. Having this happy ending make me wonder what the fuck don't they understand about "consequences" ?
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