Swap Me, Baby

Listen. I'm not one to enjoy romance, or comedies. It's probably in my personal life, I've lacked these elements for the most part.

I'm generally the type of guy you would find on a Wednesday evening enjoying the inextricable combination of French onion dip with Lay's Wavy Chips combined with the latest season of Attack of Titan.

But then one day, I stumbled across this random gem of a film:

Swap Me, Baby.

The titles was evocative, and I couldn't quite make sense of the cover art, as it perplexed me, and caused me to want to explore it deeper.

Thus, I dropped the rental funds necessary to investigate, and I was not disappointed.

No, far from it.

As alluded to before, I'm a big fan of anime, especially those of the science fiction type. Swap Me, Baby might be a romantic comedy at its core, but it has some great science fiction elements that sunk its hooks into me from the get-go.

Not only that - but the charismatic leads do so much to elevate the relatively well-known promise of body swapping, and turn it on its head. In fact, I'd say it does a full summersault in superseding expectations, all the while gripping the viewer (me) with interest as I laughed my butt off at the smart script and ridiculously delicious narrative.

It's not every day that I give a film an 11/10, but here we are.

Just like dried mushroom, a ''shifting trades'' kinda prematernity at 8th month of this couples pregnancy. There are moments of true giggle, but many moments of mediocre humour. The shapeshifting seems like a bit of a flaw at moments, cause he was the perfect french giggolo. So just a 5 from the grumpy old man.

Everyone had a blast watching this move! Original take on a classic body swap with some fun twists. I'll definitely watch it again!

The acting was top tier and the writing was witty and hilarious. Crazy what they did with such a small crew and tiny budget!

I just started watching the film. Then it was a body swap. I thought no way not another body swap film. They're so lame. I'm not watching this. What else can I watch? Then I said ok I'll just lie here and watch for a bit. Now what can I say about this film. Firstly it's not a kids body swap film. I think that's a first for these types of films right? So that's slightly different. I mean it's got penice and vagine mentioned. And they talk about having sex and do. So that's not your average body swap film. Anyway it goes on for a while. I'm not sure there was enough jokes for a whole movie but it sort of works in the end. And they have a little bit extra at the end where the swaps happen again which was interesting, and a little time spent with the child talk. So it's a fairly complete exploration of the concept and it works. But you have to watch it all. Don't turn it off and give it a 1/10 because it's a little better than that. I feel it's a solid 6/10 from me. If you like the genre you'll get even more enjoyment out of it.

Sure, the synopsis for this movie sounded interesting and fun, and the movie's cover/poster was also one that looked like this would be a fun movie. So, of course I sat down to watch writer Jesse Luman and director Caden Butera's 2022 comedy "Swap Me, Baby".

Now, I hadn't even heard about "Swap Me, Baby" before I stumbled upon it and sat down to watch it, so I didn't have any expectations for the movie. But I have to say that I was only slightly entertained by the storyline in "Swap Me, Baby", as written by Jesse Luman. But it wasn't a particularly good movie, and I actually also drifted off to slumberland once during the duration of the movie.

I can't claim that there was a lot of funny situations or contents to the movie really, and that is what made "Swap Me, Baby" a somewhat dull and mundane movie experience. I wouldn't recommend that you waste your time, money or effort on "Swap Me, Baby", not even if you enjoy comedies.

The acting performances by Ava Bogle and Falk Hentschel were actually good, just a shame that they had precious little to work with in terms of script and storyline. This movie has a very small cast ensemble, keep that in mind.

My rating of "Swap Me, Baby" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.