Family Leave
Directed by:
McGCinematography:
Marc SpicerComposer:
Pinar ToprakCast:
Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms, Emma Myers, Brady Noon, Lincoln Sykes, Theodore Sykes, Rita Moreno, Matthias Schweighöfer, Vanessa Carrasco, Cyrus Arnold (more)VOD (1)
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Jess and Bill Walker are doing their best to keep their family connected as their children grow older, more independent, and more distant. When a chance encounter with an astrological reader causes the family to wake up to a full body switch, on the morning of the most important day of each of their lives, can the Walkers unite to land a promotion, college interview, record deal and soccer tryout? (Netflix)
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Literally a textbook example of a generic, pointless, formulaic Netflix comedy that can be pigeonholed as "just to get something out before Christmas", which I was adamant would definitely not earn more than two stars from me. And earn them it did, even though it does indeed meet all the criteria of a silly, redundant and unsurprising film, but I also can't enthusiastically deny that I enjoyed it. The humour is simple and silly but works for me just fine, the body swap doesn't use a large percentage of anything novel, but the toddler-dog swap is just brilliant and this one entertained me perfectly. So, despite its major flaws and characteristics of a Netflix dumb flick, I'm happy to rate it a perfectly decent three stars without much regret.
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