A teenage girl and her mother simultaneously wish they could "switch places" for just one day. Instantly, they switch bodies. As they both had some rather demanding events scheduled on that day, complications ensue.
This is what I might call an opportunistic movie. It envisages a situation and milks it for all it can give to the goal of achieving a respectable movie length. Sometimes, you get an interesting philosophical and moral essay on understanding the other's position. Other times, it aims at lower human urges, such as spying on someone close. As the film nears its end, the film is not interested in any of those things; it has evolved into an action comedy which profits from either character's inability to deal with certain physical tasks of their apparent selves. It even abandons consistency (in the reverse transformation) for the sake of prolonging the action. Much of the movie, however, just shows its two main characters adjusting to more trivial details of their bodily situation, like, for instance, addressing others in such a way that is consistent with it.
Rating: 45
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