Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

SnoopyStyle Ad man Steve Brooks (Perry King) is a womanizing male chauvinist pig. His girlfriends Margo Brofman (JoBeth Williams), Liz (Lysette Anthony) and another join forces to kill him. Every woman hates him and he isn't allowed into heaven. He is sent back to find one woman who truly likes him. The Devil (Bruce Payne) objects and changes him into a woman Amanda Brooks (Ellen Barkin). She claims to be Steve's half-sister. His best friend Walter Stone (Jimmy Smits) takes a liking to Amanda.Ellen Barkin is a great dude but she's not necessarily a good comedian. This Blake Edwards comedy is not hitting exactly. I can see this work if Amanda is played by a great physical comedian. It's as if Edwards assumes that the man for woman thing would be easily funny for him once again. I also don't buy that she got Steve's job so easily. Another thing is the premise that making him a woman would automatically make it harder to get a woman to love him. Although I do like its resolution.

Amber Ferrano This is a remake of the Tony Curtis Debbie Reynolds movie "Goodbye Charlie" (1964). Of course the original actors and movie are the best! But if you were able to see the hit Broadway play in 1959 by George Axelrod starring Lauren Becall I am sure, as with all plays, they are much better than the movies. I would have liked to have seen Marilyn Monroe in Debbies part who declined sitting the role as "not feminine at all" and of course passed away at the time anyway. The original movie features Pat Boone, Ellen Burstyn and Walter Matthau with Vincente Minnelli Directing. If you are familiar with those actors and their bodies of work the mere mention of those names sets up the vibe of the movie and you know what you're going to get. Debbie Reynolds portrays a much sweeter and charming version, although given the time not as graphically funny as Ellen Barkin. Both are entertaining but I'd recommend if you like Switched you'll like the original. If you like the original you need to check into more movies with these actors, directors and anything George Axelrod. Not all the fancy stuff of today but you gotta love the sets and colors and costumes of the time and the charm of it all.

miramichier_dac Add me to the list of those who really liked this movie. Elements of it are hilarious as when the man in Ellen Barkin's body first tries to apply makeup and walk in high heels. Others are in-her-shoes educational for guys experiencing what it is like to be an object of lust. The ending is one of those ones that makes pure imagination seem logical and proper. Some 18 years later, I remember Barkin did a brilliant job of acting like a man acting like a woman and the makeup line, delivered while she staggers and stumbles down the hall, still cracks me up. A chick flick probably but it seemed like a good story well told to this guy.

rams_lakers Woke up to this flick on Cinemax this morning. I didn't know what to expect, and I found myself laughing at the daffy, zany, madcap adventures of a guy in a woman's body.Ellen Barkin gives a hilarious performance. The awkwardness off her transformation was humorous and realistic. She played off of her fellow actors with precision and flow. Playing the "tough" chick kept me in stitches.The scene I laughed at the most was the bar fight, which got really over-the-top and out of hand. My laughter reached it's climax when Barkin jumped on the guy's back in the center of the bartender's station.I usually grade a movie on entertainment value and this one gets a 10 out of 10 for the simple fact that it made me laugh out loud more than any other. (Okay, tied with Billy Madison). I rarely laugh at comedies more than twice a movie, so I'm recommending this movie to anyone who wants something to really laugh at.