Family Switch (2023)
6/10
Silly yet fun
30 November 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Family Switch is a 2023 body swapping comedy starring Jennifer Garner,Emma Myers,Ed Helms, Brady Moon and Rita Moreno.

Directed by MCG(Charlie's Angels along with its sequel and This Means War),the story follows the Walker family, Jess(Garner),her husband Bill(Helms), their 16 year old daughter CC(Meyers), their 14 year old son WYATT(Moon), and their 2 year old son Miles who are all slightly unhappy. CC wants to make it big at the soccer tournament, Wyatt gets bullied in school and has a crush on a girl named Ariana,Jess works at a firm and Bill is also working.

However things take a turn for the family as they attend an event at the Griffith Park Planetarium and meet a mysterious woman(Moreno)who takes a photo of the family,as she overhears them arguing and wishing that they could swap places. Once that happens the nuclear elements split and recombine; Jess's mind is in CC's body (and vice versa), while Bill's mind is in WYATT's body (and vice versa) along with their baby Miles and their pug to swap bodies too.

While CC and Wyatt try to navigate the impossibly complicated world that is adulthood (responsibilities, skills, fears, ambitions), Jess and Bill must work their way through the insanely intricate network of rites of passage (bullying, soccer games, music, parties, romance) that comes with being a teenager. Will they undo the swap before they are stuck as each other forever?. Overall its a silly movie that has been done before (think of Freaky Friday only its the entire family that gets swapped and not the mother and daughter) meets 13 Going On 30) and you will enjoy this movie.

Also features a cameo from Howie Mandel(Americas Got Talent,and the voice of Gizmo from Gremlins) and King Bach(who appears in Bart Bakers parody videos and also made an appearance with Dhar Mann).

Not a bad film.
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