The Change-Up

The Change-Up (2011) is a body-swap comedy from director David Dobkin you can watch online on iFILM. Two childhood friends each envy the other's life, until one drunken night they wake up in the wrong bodies.

Dave (Jason Bateman) is a frazzled lawyer juggling a marriage and three kids. Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) is a freewheeling bachelor with no obligations and no filter. Each is convinced the other got the dream. After a late-night wish at a fountain, that wish comes true: Dave is now living as Mitch, and Mitch is stuck running Dave's career. Cue the playboy fumbling a major court case while the family man wades through movie shoots and hookups. Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde and Alan Arkin round out the cast.

It's crude, but warmer than it looks, a comedy about the grass only seeming greener on the other side. Dobkin keeps the pace brisk, and the easy chemistry between Bateman and Reynolds carries even the riskiest gags. Stream The Change-Up (2011) online on iFILM.