Family Switch is a film clearly built to give its ensemble fun acting opportunities, with Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms being given excuses to loosen up more than expected, and Brady Noon and Emma Myers (arguably the movie's MVP) moving beyond mere imitation into more full-bodied performances as adults seeing through their kids' eyes. Unfortunately, the rest of the film saddles them with uninteresting situations that never take the body-switching aspect to more clever territory. Whatever mutual understanding that's learned by the end feels contrived, with the Christmas setting feeling especially tacked on—leaving these otherwise talented actors little to anchor their performances on.
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Genre
Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director
McG
Actors
Adam Lustick, Alanna Fox, Andrew Bachelor, Andrew Bursiaga, Anwar Jibawi, Arjun Sriram, Austin Boyce, Bashir Salahuddin, Benjamin Flores Jr., Bob Stephenson, Brady Noon, Carl McDowell, Chloé Wepper, Connor Finnerty, Cyrus Arnold, Dan Finnerty, Ed Helms, Emma Myers, Fortune Feimster, Hannah Stocking, Helen Hong, Howie Mandel, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, Jason Rogel, Jennifer Garner, Kiara T. Romero, Lauren Ash, Mark McGrath, Matthias Schweighöfer, Naomi Ekperigin, Ned Bellamy, Patrick Wilson, Paul Scheer, Pete Holmes, Preston Galli, Punam Patel, Ravi Kapoor, Rita Moreno, Rivers Cuomo, Ryan James, Scott Shriner, Sebastian Quinn, Vanessa Carrasco, Xosha Roquemore
Language
English
Mood
A-list actors, Easy, Lighthearted, No-brainer
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This movie was very cliché and so horribly removed from real life for most people. The main characters hardships were not joining a band to have a child or missing a promotion at work to go to soccer games. They also have a mansion house a pristine collectors car in the garage and the rarest/most valuable pokemon card kicking about in the bedroom. One kids is going to Yale and the other has a promising Soccer career. It’s just a self indulgent American dream dross with no imagination added to a done before movie.