Family Switch is a family comedy about a family who gets Freaky Friday-ed.
Overall the cast is good, Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms could do this kind of part in their sleep but they show up and put in the energy here to help give the movie some life. The kids are decent too especially Emma Myers as the daughter CeeCee(a good follow up to her turn in Wednesday). The supporting cast is solid and affable but no one really breaks out beyond the kind of B-list, family friendly, just-good-enough-not-to-turn-off metric that this kind of movie seems to fill for Netflix.
The idea is an old one, the characters even call this out explicitly at one point, but there's enough decent jokes, enough sincere heart, and its paced well enough to keep you watching. Director McG seems to have found a new lane with his time at Netflix- decent but in no way exceptional- genre flicks.
An inoffensive and effective PG comedy(holiday adjacent) that'd be good to watch with the fam if holiday tensions start to rise.
Currently streaming on Netflix.
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