{"id":41912,"date":"2023-11-30T12:14:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=41912"},"modified":"2023-11-30T22:13:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T03:13:05","slug":"family-switch-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/30\/family-switch-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Switch (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>McG\u2019s \u201cFamily Switch\u201d is a movie we\u2019ve seen a thousand times before. It doesn\u2019t re-invent the wheel and doesn\u2019t really seek to, at that. It makes it abundantly clear in the big turn of events involving the body switch as the four central characters make blatant references to \u201cFreaky Friday<\/a>,\u201d \u201c13 Going on 30<\/a>,\u201d \u201c17 Again,\u201d and \u201cBig.\u201d It\u2019s tough to really judge a movie like this because it\u2019s an easy slam dunk. It\u2019s an easy paycheck for Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms, and current teen star Emma Meyers (off her debut on Netflix\u2019s \u201cWednesday\u201d) is allowed her own vehicle.<\/p>\n

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Jess and Bill Walker are doing their best to keep their family connected as their children CC and Wyatt as they grow older, more independent, and more distant. When a chance encounter with an astrological reader causes the family to wake up to a full body switch, on the morning of the most important day of each of their lives, can the Walkers unite to land a promotion, college interview, record deal and soccer tryout?<\/p>\n

\u201cFamily Switch\u201d is yet another body swap family comedy with goofy Christmas themes tacked on for the sake of tapping in to the whole holiday season demographic. Truth be told the biggest criticism for \u201cFamily Switch\u201d is that the Christmas theme has little to nothing to do with the whole of the film and the ideas about family unity. The family finds common ground through means not really concerning Christmas, when all is said and done. All things said, \u201cFamily Switch\u201d is exactly what you think it might end up being. Two parents that don\u2019t understand their two kids are being told that they \u201cjust don\u2019t understand\u201d by two kids that don\u2019t understand their parents.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the awkward shifting of environments and workplaces, some wacky confrontations with mean bosses and school bullies, the grown ups learn to compromise with the kids, and they all live happily ever after. \u201cFamily Switch\u201d is saved mainly by the solid central cast, as Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms are charming as struggling parents anxious to maintain their last tradition i.e. Christmas, as their kids begin to grow up and seek their own lives. Helms and Garner are just charming and Emma Meyer is adorable in her dual roles, adhering to the personality traits that made her so likable in \u201cWednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, there are a ton of baffling narrative choices including a long fart scene, a weird sub-plot involving a dog trainer babysitting the family dog and baby, and a back and forth between Helms and his son Wyatt\u2019s school crush which begins to feel a bit awkward when he starts flirting with her in the middle of school. And I\u2019m sorry but Helms and Garner are not<\/em><\/strong> millennials. Nevertheless, \u201cFamily Switch\u201d is cheesy, paint by numbers, secular, holiday entertainment that you can put on in the background while doing chores. I liked it just enough to get me through the end credits\u2014which oddly enough includes a long blooper reel.<\/p>\n

Now Streaming Exclusively on Netflix.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McG\u2019s \u201cFamily Switch\u201d is a movie we\u2019ve seen a thousand times before. It doesn\u2019t re-invent the wheel and doesn\u2019t really seek to, at that. It makes it abundantly clear in the big turn of events involving the body switch as the four central characters make blatant references to \u201cFreaky Friday,\u201d \u201c13 Going on 30,\u201d \u201c17 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[71,200,219,340,349,580,698,1033],"class_list":["post-41912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adventure","tag-christmas","tag-comedy","tag-family","tag-fantasy","tag-kids","tag-music","tag-teen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41918,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41912\/revisions\/41918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}