The initial few minutes of the movie shows the grotesque world of late night baby caring along with the most horrible poop shooting to the face scenes summarizes the film’s story. Commonly in the comedy films, such a sequence is the stepping-stone to hell that Paul Blart, Adam Sandler, and Mall Cop can realize.

In this movie, this scene sets the expectations to as low as possible, which the actors Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman are able to demolish expectations with simply vulgar, appalling, and amusing comic settings. In simple terms, this movie is the most funny film of 2011.

Dave Lockwood played by Bateman is a hard-working lawyer who is trying to juggle his duty as a father and still trying to take the time to tell his wife that he cares for her. His best friend Mitch (played by Reynolds) is the complete opposite. Mitch sleeps the entire day and spends his awaken hours enticing sexual associates while being drunk.

The two characters are complete opposites, which is the perfect setting for some switch over concept. On a particular night when they are drinking and mourning the unhappiness of their lives results in them taking a dip in the magical world. In the morning when they wake as fate would have it, Dave and Mitch are trapped in each other’s bodies.

The Change-up definitely follows the Freaky Friday concept, which is not really faulty. The plot is already set, which gives Reynolds, Bateman, and David Dobkin (director from Wedding Crashers fame) the right to directly get in to the humor. Bateman who is developing the fame as the straight Hollywood man is provided with an excellent chance to act as Reynold’s Mitch. The missing censorship of the character allows Bateman to emerge by using some of the most horrifying sentences found in the English grammar. Audience may require a dictionary for understanding the constant flow of slang used to represent the various parts of the body right through the movie. Irrespective of whether you understand the slang or not, coming from Bateman they sound priceless.

The same logic is applicable to Reynolds who comes out of his tag of a womanizer by playing the role of the family man. The judgment about an actor’s diversity can be seen from one scene where he grudgingly is located in the middle of lorno (meaning low budget soft core porn) is warped. However, this scene is excellently acted by Reynolds who makes it seem plausible while make it an agony. Some of the apparent lines, such as: uh oh, Dave will have to cheat his wife while being in Mitch’s body” are warped several times to keep the audience completely entertained.

The change in the movie’s story is probably the biggest twist. Providing the audiences with comedy is one aspect but to show real relationships beneath the comedy is fully satiable. The dithering relationship between the two friends is visible that lets an impossible plan real. In this, Leslie Mann (of Funny People, and Knocked Up) playing Jamie the wife of Dave shares her just emotional moments along with some laughs, which is one reason that her husband Judd Apatow casts her regularly. It is unimaginable to have a film made by the rules of a textbook to have an end that revolves around some sort of an emotional moment is as amazing as seeing an adult throw an infant close to a set of steaks knives. This is what occurs in the move by sheer coincidence.

In the present scenario, where anything is accepted, it is tough to whip up a slap stick and one line comedy that is edgy and leaves the audience laughing till their jaws drop to the floor. This how the movie hits hard.

The Change-Up trailer