Whether or not you go for this film will largely depend on your response to the first five minutes… We see Jason Bateman, a new father, getting up in the middle of the night to go and tend to his twin baby boys. As he’s changing one of their nappies, the camera pans down to reveal the most unnecessary shot in cinema history – a close-up of the baby’s arsehole. Then a spurt of thick liquid baby poo emerges and flies through the air splattering into Bateman’s shirt. Before the audience has a chance to recover from this horrifying image, another projectile stream of poo erupts this time going directly into his mouth.
YEAH? IS THAT YOUR KIND OF THING?? IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE INTO? FLYING BABY POO?? GOING INTO PEOPLE’S MOUTHS???
YOU SICKEN ME.
What follows is 100 minutes of the most extreme, gross-out, crassly juvenile nonsense I’ve see for a very long time. It’s a film without much to say and with precious little artistic merit. It is, however, quite funny.
Bateman and his old college buddy (Ryan Reynolds) are both jealous of each other’s lives. One’s a highflying corporate lawyer on the verge of making partner, but with no time to spend with his wife and kids. The other is a lay about, trustafarian douchebag who spends his time smoking weed and having freaky sex with superfit honeyz, but deep down is lonely and unfulfilled. One night, as they’re pissing into a magic fountain(!) they make a wish that they could swap bodies and, low and behold, they do. Blah blah blah… whatever whatever whatever… chaos will obviously ensue and then everyone will end up learning important life lessons.
However, the writers Jon Locus and Scott Moore who also wrote The Hangover (the original good one, not the second shit one) have clearly decided not to bother too much doing an actual proper ‘film’ with fleshed out characters and plot developments and stuff, and instead have just written lots and lots of really funny jokes. You may disagree, but I’d argue that this is all that really matters in comedy. It won’t be to everyone’s taste – indeed I’ve yet to find a single person with anything good to say about it – but if you’re into bad taste, raucous comedies (and shitting babies, and copious dick jokes, and sex with heavily pregnant women) I’d recommend giving it a chance.
You’ll probably want to get drunk first though…
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