There’s a lot of bad shit in the world, so let’s take a moment to appreciate something that is purely good: A baby dressed as Baby Groot from Guardians Of The Galaxy. That’s right, that’s all there is to this. Just a really fucking cute baby dressed as a fan-favorite character who is also a baby.
The 5-month-old is named Charlie and his parents, Tracie Lockwood-Santiago and David Lockwood, brought him to Boston Comic Con over the weekend in truly adorable cosplay. Even Guardians director James Gunn couldn’t get over how freaking cute this baby is and shared a photo of him on Instagram, joking it was an early still from Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2.
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The 5-month-old is named Charlie and his parents, Tracie Lockwood-Santiago and David Lockwood, brought him to Boston Comic Con over the weekend in truly adorable cosplay. Even Guardians director James Gunn couldn’t get over how freaking cute this baby is and shared a photo of him on Instagram, joking it was an early still from Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2.
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- 8/16/2016
- by Caroline Siede
- avclub.com
In terms of support, they got a taste for what the Sundance Institute had to offer in concretizing aspects of their respective screenplays and in terms of scenery, they’ll need to pack significantly less heavier suitcases. Nia DaCosta (Little Woods), Olivia Newman (First Match), Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (pictured above) (Mustang) & Yung Chang (Eggplant), Christopher Makoto Yogi (I Was A Simple Man), Mark Kindred (Rogue) and trio Brent Green, Michael McGinley and Thyra Heder‘s untitled project are technically moving onto the next round working on the directing portion of their projects at the June Directors and Screenwriters Labs. they’ll be joined by The Imposter helmer Bart Layton‘s narrative debut, American Animals. The Screenwriters Lab attendees are Dan Krauss‘ docu-to-feature adaptation of The Kill Team, Boots Riley‘s Sorry to Bother You, Frances Bodomo, Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani and Irakli Solomanashvili‘s Afronauts, and finally Fernando Coimbra‘s The...
- 5/7/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
Chicago – Just today, we wrote of the stellar ensemble in this summer’s “Crazy, Stupid, Love” and how well-used they were in that enjoyable romantic dramedy. On the other end of the comedy scale, we have “The Change-Up,” out on Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow. Consider this an advance warning to not waste your time with this reprehensible excuse for a movie. Only the sheer talent of the two leads keep it from total disaster. Rarely have so many talented people been used so ineffectively.
Blu-Ray Rating: 1.5/5.0
“The Change-Up” opens with a grown man getting ridiculously exaggerated baby poop projected into his open mouth. It doesn’t get much smarter from there. Through an embarrassing screenplay, we have to watch a man shave another’s balls, another smile as he takes a dump, a pregnant woman trying to mount somebody, and a man stick his finger in a woman’s ass while shooting a porno.
Blu-Ray Rating: 1.5/5.0
“The Change-Up” opens with a grown man getting ridiculously exaggerated baby poop projected into his open mouth. It doesn’t get much smarter from there. Through an embarrassing screenplay, we have to watch a man shave another’s balls, another smile as he takes a dump, a pregnant woman trying to mount somebody, and a man stick his finger in a woman’s ass while shooting a porno.
- 11/7/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
HollywoodNews.com: I’m not going to do a full-on review, but there are a few things I’d like to touch on. First of all, the film isn’t nearly as bad as many other critics seem to believe, nor is the film nearly as lurid or distasteful as its been advertised (I rather hate the above-poster, but there were no other one-sheet designs to choose from).
In terms of what it’s about, it’s actually a classical western, in that it primarily concerns the struggle between untamed freedom and orderly civilization. The film is not as crass as ‘gee, I’m shackled to a family while my friend gets to run around boning chicks’. At its best, the David Dobkin picture hints at a simpler truth: that there are pluses and minuses to every sort of life we choose. What makes the picture work better that it...
In terms of what it’s about, it’s actually a classical western, in that it primarily concerns the struggle between untamed freedom and orderly civilization. The film is not as crass as ‘gee, I’m shackled to a family while my friend gets to run around boning chicks’. At its best, the David Dobkin picture hints at a simpler truth: that there are pluses and minuses to every sort of life we choose. What makes the picture work better that it...
- 8/9/2011
- by Scott Mendelson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Title: The Change Up Director: David Dobkin Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde People often envy their friends’ lifestyles, naively believing that whatever job and family relationships other people have are better than their own. Despite all their wishing, no once can change their life with their friends, and don’t always realize that what they have may be the best option for them. But in the new comedy ‘The Change Up,’ best friends Mitch Planko and Dave Lockwood, who lead completely different lifestyles, accidentally switch places, and realize that they shouldn’t take what they have for granted. ‘The Change Up’ follows Mitch (played by Ryan Reynolds) and...
- 8/6/2011
- by karen
- ShockYa
"An overworked lawyer and his best friend have grown apart. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the others life for one freaky Friday."
Actually, the characters played by Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds in The Change-Up spend weeks trying to undo the personality swap wrought by the mysterious (and vengeful) fountain in which they drunkenly pee together after a night of boozing and sports. Each is dissatisfied and envies the other's life, so they both make an ironic wish that the lady of the fountain is too happy to grant.
There's little to say about this comedy from The Hangover writers Scott Moore and Jon Lucas and Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin. The script lives up to neither of those hits and feels like it was peppered with jokes rejected from both, perhaps written in the spare time the pair had between weekends photocopying the script...
Actually, the characters played by Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds in The Change-Up spend weeks trying to undo the personality swap wrought by the mysterious (and vengeful) fountain in which they drunkenly pee together after a night of boozing and sports. Each is dissatisfied and envies the other's life, so they both make an ironic wish that the lady of the fountain is too happy to grant.
There's little to say about this comedy from The Hangover writers Scott Moore and Jon Lucas and Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin. The script lives up to neither of those hits and feels like it was peppered with jokes rejected from both, perhaps written in the spare time the pair had between weekends photocopying the script...
- 8/5/2011
- by Mike Saulters
- Slackerwood
Chicago – “The Change-Up” is an undeniable mess, as any movie that opens with a grown man getting baby crap projected into his mouth would be (and that’s just the beginning), but one of the worst scripts of the year is saved from the depths of comedy hell by a talented cast headlined by the typically-restrained Jason Bateman playing against type. It’s still a misstep for everyone involved but nowhere near as grand a fall as it could have been because of the inherent talent of the cast.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
Do we really need to see Jason Bateman shaving the balls of Ryan Reynolds? How about the latter actor smiling as he takes a dump? Have you been dying to see a very-pregnant women try and mount the star of “The Proposal” and “Green Lantern”? There are moments in “The Change-Up” that honestly made me feel like a twelve-year-old boy...
Rating: 2.0/5.0
Do we really need to see Jason Bateman shaving the balls of Ryan Reynolds? How about the latter actor smiling as he takes a dump? Have you been dying to see a very-pregnant women try and mount the star of “The Proposal” and “Green Lantern”? There are moments in “The Change-Up” that honestly made me feel like a twelve-year-old boy...
- 8/5/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Change-Up
Directed by: David Dobkin
Cast: Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde
Running Time: 1 hr 52 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Plot: A married family man (Bateman) accidentally switches bodies with his single best friend (Reynolds) when they both urinate in a magic fountain. Now they each have to deal with many new situations.
Who’S It For? It’s very rated R, and it’s very raunchy … more than any other comedy this summer. Keep that in mind. It also has a wide variety of cheap laughs and intelligent ones.
Expectations: As a kid, I loved Vice Versa and Like Father, Like Son. A rated R version with Bateman and Reynolds sounded perfect.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Jason Bateman as Dave Lockwood: As Dave, he’s hard working, reserved, and feels like he missed out on an opportunity. When Bateman becomes Mitch, the mouth immediately turns filthy.
Directed by: David Dobkin
Cast: Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde
Running Time: 1 hr 52 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Plot: A married family man (Bateman) accidentally switches bodies with his single best friend (Reynolds) when they both urinate in a magic fountain. Now they each have to deal with many new situations.
Who’S It For? It’s very rated R, and it’s very raunchy … more than any other comedy this summer. Keep that in mind. It also has a wide variety of cheap laughs and intelligent ones.
Expectations: As a kid, I loved Vice Versa and Like Father, Like Son. A rated R version with Bateman and Reynolds sounded perfect.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Jason Bateman as Dave Lockwood: As Dave, he’s hard working, reserved, and feels like he missed out on an opportunity. When Bateman becomes Mitch, the mouth immediately turns filthy.
- 8/5/2011
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
It doesn't take long before The Change-Up delivers it's first gross out. Um, about a minute into the film, actually, as super stick in the mud Dave Lockwood(Jason Bateman) gets an early morning wake up call by one of his infant children. Yeah, it's a big ol' dirty diaper we're greeted with. What comes next makes me yearn for the hackiness of the baby projectile vomit scene, but let's just say...
- 8/5/2011
- by Travis Hopson
- Punch Drunk Critics
The body-swap. It’s an old favorite, been around since time immemorial. Like Father Like Son, Prelude To A Kiss, The Hot Chick, 18 Again (not to be confused with 17 Again, which is a teen-again thing. Totes diff.) And let’s not forget Freaky Friday, Freaky Friday, and, of course, Freaky Friday. Can you merge the fratty humor of The Hangover with a body-swap story and make it fun to watch? With The Change-Up, that’s a yep, you bet.
Dave Lockwood is a Type A lawyer in hyperdrive. He works, lives and even sleeps according to a set of rules so tight it’s a wonder he’s got time to use the bathroom. Oh wait, he kinda doesn’t. Mitch Planko is an over 30 Man/Boy who couldn’t grow up if his life depended on it. His life consists of morning bong hits, “acting gigs” (a.k.a.
Dave Lockwood is a Type A lawyer in hyperdrive. He works, lives and even sleeps according to a set of rules so tight it’s a wonder he’s got time to use the bathroom. Oh wait, he kinda doesn’t. Mitch Planko is an over 30 Man/Boy who couldn’t grow up if his life depended on it. His life consists of morning bong hits, “acting gigs” (a.k.a.
- 8/5/2011
- by Denise Kitashima Dutton
- Atomic Popcorn
I’ve never asked how Superman flies. I’ve never asked why Jason Vorhees always comes back from the dead. I’ve never asked why Woody Allen always plays characters dating or married to hot women. It just is and we accept it. So I guess it’s only fair not to ask how two guys peeing in a fountain can cause them to switch bodies. Yes, it makes no sense but I can’t really base this review on the inherent goofiness of the body-switch film sub-genre. That being said The Change-Up, brought to you by the writers of The Hangover and the director David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers), does bring a few new angles to the genre though it takes a while to get there. The simple premise is that two old college buddies, Mitch Planko and Dave Lockwood (Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman respectively) are...
- 8/3/2011
- by Jeromy Adler
- The Daily BLAM!
Los Angeles — In "Horrible Bosses" and "The Change-Up," which opens Friday, Jason Bateman plays a hardworking guy who loves his job but yearns for something new.
In real life, Bateman is an actor with three decades of experience who loved starring in two fun summer comedies but really longs to direct.
The 42-year-old stands to be the season's comedy king with his two R-rated flicks coming out just a few weeks apart. In "Horrible Bosses," he plays Nick Hendricks, a management candidate so frustrated by his twisted supervisor that killing him seems like a good idea. In "The Change-Up," Bateman is Dave Lockwood, an attorney about to make partner who loves his wife and two kids but envies the no-responsibility lifestyle of his best friend, played by Ryan Reynolds. One drunken night, the two buddies talk about switching lives with each other, and the next day discover that they have changed bodies.
In real life, Bateman is an actor with three decades of experience who loved starring in two fun summer comedies but really longs to direct.
The 42-year-old stands to be the season's comedy king with his two R-rated flicks coming out just a few weeks apart. In "Horrible Bosses," he plays Nick Hendricks, a management candidate so frustrated by his twisted supervisor that killing him seems like a good idea. In "The Change-Up," Bateman is Dave Lockwood, an attorney about to make partner who loves his wife and two kids but envies the no-responsibility lifestyle of his best friend, played by Ryan Reynolds. One drunken night, the two buddies talk about switching lives with each other, and the next day discover that they have changed bodies.
- 8/1/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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