Yes, the two buddies above, one an established lawyer with wife and kids, the other an "actor" who never grew up, are peeing in the fountain after a night of drinking and male bonding. In front of this statue of the Greek goddess Metis (wisdom but also magical cunning), they impulsively wish for each other's lives, and to their chagrin and amazement, wake up the next morning inhabiting each other's bodies. Raunchy comedy - and it did make me laugh a lot - and the expected life lessons ensue. One of the things I enjoyed most was seeing Jason Bateman, as the buttoned up lawyer, letting his freak flag fly, and secondarily seeing Ryan Reynolds, the man-child, impersonating an adult. Leslie Mann is excellent as the long-suffering wife, and the quite beautiful Olivia Wilde ("Tron: Legacy" and the recent "Cowboys & Aliens") provides an interestingly unbuttoned performance as the secretly uninhibited new lawyer at the firm. What I didn't enjoy were some old jokes (projectile baby poop again? really?) and the hints of character development that never really happened. But it's a fun light comedy, and rated R for a change.
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