What happens when the married man gets all the freedom he wants, and the single guy gets the family life he’s been yearning for? Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman are coming this year to redefine your Freaky Friday concept in the R-rated romantic comedy, The Change-Up (2011). Watch the trailer here.
The Change-Up (2011) is a story about two best friends, Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) and Dave (Jason Bateman). Growing up together, they were inseparable best friends, but as the years have passed the two men 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. To Mitch, Dave has it all: beautiful wife Jamie (Leslie Mann), kids who adore him and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. To Dave, living Mitch’s stress free life without obligation or consequence would be a dream come true. 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 the &*#@ out. Despite the 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. Further complicating matters are Dave’s sexy legal associate, Sabrina (Olivia Wilde), and Mitch’s estranged father (Alan Arkin). With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other’s lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.
Watch the redband trailer of the romantic comedy below:
The Change-Up (2011) is directed by David Dobkin who made comedies like Wedding Crashers (2005) and Shanghai Knights (2003). The romantic comedy is written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. They previously wrote Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), The Hangover (2009) and Flypaper (2011). The trailer looks promising, and although the body-switching concept is a bit old, we’re hoping that Lucas and Moore’s script could take it to the next level, avoid the cliches, and bring in more laughs.
The Change-Up will be released in the US, 5 August 2011.
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Thanks for the heads up (and by that, I mean warning) on this film. It looks too rude and disgusting for my tastes. Sometimes less is more in a movie trailer.
It seems like the R-rated romcoms are increasingly trying to test their audience\’s limits. How much sex and profanity can one take? That depends on the person. R-rated romcoms doesn\’t always sell, but they do attract a certain type of audience, and Dobkin was probably trying to aim at them.