Top Ten List
Body-switch comedies
- 1 The Hot Chick
- 2 Dream a Little Dream
- 3 father-son versions (17 Again, Like Father Like Son, Vice Versa)
- 4 The Change-Up
- 5 Prelude to a Kiss
- 6 All of Me
- 7 Freaky Friday (2003)
- 8 13 Going on 30
- 9 Being John Malkovich
- 10 Big
In the discussion (9)
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- The ranking covers only comedies, excluding horror and science-fiction versions such as Face/Off, Freaky (called actually really liked), Nine Lives with Kevin Spacey trapped in a cat, and The Cobbler with Adam Sandler.
- The list builds from one out of ten, The Hot Chick with Rob Schneider and Rachel McAdams, joking she should make a Notebook sequel to buy up all copies.
- Two out of ten is Dream a Little Dream with the Corys, a rare four-person switch that somehow got a sequel.
- Three out of ten groups the father-son versions: 17 Again, Like Father Like Son with Kirk Cameron and Dudley Moore, and Vice Versa with Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage, the best of the three.
- Four out of ten is The Change-Up with Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman, not a very good movie.
- Five out of ten is Prelude to a Kiss with Meg Ryan and Alec Baldwin, called the Juliet stratosphere.
- Asked for thoughts, the reply places it in the latter days of Meg Ryan's arc, a film that felt like a favor but was enjoyable; it made the playoffs but is not a round-two movie. — Juliet Litman
- Six out of ten is All of Me with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin; seven is the 2003 Freaky Friday with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, called rock solid, with a tangent on Lohan's Parent Trap to Mean Girls run.
- Eight is 13 Going on 30, nine Being John Malkovich as the highbrow version, and ten Big, called the best one ever and the icon everything else derives from.