My friends and I decided to watch this movie as a Peyton List, Jacob Bertrand palate cleanser after watching them scare the hell out of everyone on "Cobra Kai."
We started with low expectations. In order to get in to this movie you need to get past bad wigs and poor plot devices. Like when the lead characters swap bodies after a simple text exchange.
However, the movie-in its depiction of exaggerated gender stereotypes-finds a way to highlight the absurdity of hyper masculinity and what we can learn from embracing both feminine and masculine. The characters, both suffering from the loss of a parent, find their own voices while embodying the other. One minute you're laughing at bad wigs and the next you're feeling something without even realizing it happened.
As a kid who grew up on 1990s and 2000s DCOMs, it made me happy to see that the movies of today maintain the camp of Disney movies of old, while advancing a socially conscious message for today's generation.
We started with low expectations. In order to get in to this movie you need to get past bad wigs and poor plot devices. Like when the lead characters swap bodies after a simple text exchange.
However, the movie-in its depiction of exaggerated gender stereotypes-finds a way to highlight the absurdity of hyper masculinity and what we can learn from embracing both feminine and masculine. The characters, both suffering from the loss of a parent, find their own voices while embodying the other. One minute you're laughing at bad wigs and the next you're feeling something without even realizing it happened.
As a kid who grew up on 1990s and 2000s DCOMs, it made me happy to see that the movies of today maintain the camp of Disney movies of old, while advancing a socially conscious message for today's generation.