In 1976 there was Freaky Friday. This movie came out in 1987 and Vice Versa in 1988. I liked both of those better than this.
If you haven't guessed the plot by now then let me apprise you. It is a body swap film. Dr. Jack Hammond (Dudley Moore) accidentally drinks a brain swap serum and ends up trading bodies with his son Chris (Kirk Cameron). Neither of them even try to pretend to be the other as they carry on in different bodies, in different environments, but with the exact same behavior.
The monumental difference between this movie and Vice Versa (starring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage) is that in Vice Versa the son was a 10-year-old-boy. It's actually funnier, and in some ways adorable, to see a kid that young attempting to be an adult. Even if he tries his best he's going to fail.
In this movie, the son is seventeen so he has an inkling of what it takes to be an adult, or he can at least fake it. Chris not only doesn't try to be adult for the sake of his father, he actually regresses. I mean that he was acting more immature in his adult body than he did in his teenage body. I find nothing funny about a seventeen-year-old acting like he's ten.
If you haven't guessed the plot by now then let me apprise you. It is a body swap film. Dr. Jack Hammond (Dudley Moore) accidentally drinks a brain swap serum and ends up trading bodies with his son Chris (Kirk Cameron). Neither of them even try to pretend to be the other as they carry on in different bodies, in different environments, but with the exact same behavior.
The monumental difference between this movie and Vice Versa (starring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage) is that in Vice Versa the son was a 10-year-old-boy. It's actually funnier, and in some ways adorable, to see a kid that young attempting to be an adult. Even if he tries his best he's going to fail.
In this movie, the son is seventeen so he has an inkling of what it takes to be an adult, or he can at least fake it. Chris not only doesn't try to be adult for the sake of his father, he actually regresses. I mean that he was acting more immature in his adult body than he did in his teenage body. I find nothing funny about a seventeen-year-old acting like he's ten.