It's also on the same level as that film, although it lacks a big and memorable set-piece like the Hanks/Loggia dance-off and the sight of Reinhold playing the drums doesn't really cut it. What follows soon turns into your usual 1980s-era comedy with much in common with the Tom Hanks movie BIG.

I have to say that I always love the tinges of the supernatural in these family movies from the era the writer goes out of his way to set up the story with the early scenes set in Thailand itself and featuring veteran actor James Hong in a typically creepy performance. VICE VERSA is basically a gender variation on the 1970s film FREAKY Friday, in which Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage play a bickering father and son whose roles are reversed thanks to a magical Thai artefact. Winning scenes come by way of the school and the workplace of the respective individuals, while the involvement of the ex- wife/mother and Sam (Corinne Bohrer) the girlfriend create some nice light hearted touches. Sure it's not genre defining or exceptionally hard, but the tidy writing throws up amusing scenarios that both of them utilize to the maximum. With both proving to have a nice line in comic timing. Judge Reinhold & Fred Savage play father and son respectively and both do considerably well with the material to hand. The amazing thing is that this film was written and produced by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais, the people responsible for the Ronnie Barker comedy, Porridge. From the moment the switch occurs, however, hilarity ensues, and both Fred Savage and Judge Reinhold nail their reversed roles. Before the switch, Fred Savage is every bit as awkward as you can imagine in his role as Judge Reinhold's character's son. You've got Fred Savage, a kid who - to my knowledge - never, ever came off as a kid in anything he ever acted in, and you've got Judge Reinhold, a guy who generally just always has a certain youthfulness to him, both cast in another take on the 'Freaky Friday' formula. I don't think they could've cast this movie any better.

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