This is another movie about body swapping again. And it is not a horror movie but a relaxingly fun one. To cut the long story short, the pair of best pals, one a career ambitious father who neglected his wife and the other a good for nothing low grade actor, made a wish to lead the other's life in their drunken stupor after a guy's night out.
Unfortunately, when they woke up the next morning, they found their wish came true, possessed the other's body and freaked out. It is one of those comedic movies where the two then had to impersonate the other person as they went about their daily routines and experienced encounters not of their own. Naturally, they screwed up and had to try to put things right. In the process, they learnt to appreciate their own lives, families and friends before they finally reclaimed their own separate lives all over again.
Jason Bateman, acted in Horrible Bosses recently, was a child star but at 42 years old, he seems to have aged quite a lot when acting side by side with the 35 years old Ryan Reynolds, who was most recently seen in the Green Lantern.
I think everyone must have their fair share of horrible bosses, so surely some of us can identify with the bullied characters in this movie. With a stellar cast including Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis and Jamie Foxx, this is a comedic film that tells the tale of how three employees and buddies plotted together to hire a hitman to bump off their respective bosses.
As usual, Kevin Spacey is good. Colin Farrell's high forehead and balding boss was at most irritating. But I was most tickled by the superior-subordinate relationship between the man-eating Jennifer Aniston and the helpless sexually harassed Charlie Day. I loved it that Jennifer played outside her usual roles and ditched her blond locks for a more dominant brown.
Did I enjoy the movie? Not exactly. It was barely entertaining when the characters sometimes came across as stupid. The storyline was unrealistic as we don't go around hiring some killer to terminate our horrible bosses. If we do, there would be lots of killings.
