Date And Switch
In 'Date and Switch', two senior students in high school, Michael and Matty are close friends since the third grade. Both are still virgins and are trying to help each other to impress before the prom for senior students. But this supreme task suddenly turns into a different direction when Matty declares that he is gay. Tragicomic situations continually arise when Matty tries to remain true to his gender while Michael tries to help him to change…
1 May 1988, Long Island, New York, USA
15 November 1990, Fruitvale, British Columbia, Canada
10 February 1973, Ontario, Canada
11 February 1985
20 September 1956, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
26 January 1984, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
4 October 1989, Austin, Texas, USA
18 February 1990, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
February 21, 2014
In place of authentic emotion and searing personal communication, there's cliche and passivity, plasticizing the kindly nature of the picture to a point where all the tension begins to resemble a bad sitcom.
February 12, 2014
Lame jokes (even when delivered by comedic vets like Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman) mixed with painfully paced sequences make this potential-filled rom-com fall flat.
February 13, 2014
Like a fresh ripple in the near-stagnant high school movie pool, Chris Nelson's "Date and Switch" balances formula with winning performers, genuine humor and a generosity of spirit that this genre too often lacks.
February 13, 2014
It's a movie about being true to yourself that's reluctant to let its real character show. At any point that it looks likely to tweak sex-comedy convention or get truly weird, it reverses course at the last minute.
February 13, 2014
A largely enjoyable and credible coming-of-age romp, despite some forced broadness and uneven pacing.
May 21, 2014
"Date and Switch" should have had something new to say about high school friendships. It doesn't.
February 13, 2014
In its sloppy humor and unabashedly earnest expressions of friendship and romance, the movie feels like any likable, and generally forgettable, teen comedy. And yet with its casually handled twist, the genre ambles forward just a little bit.
February 20, 2014
Date And Switch is a plucky step in the right direction for diversity in teen comedies, but it lacks the extra oomph to stand on its own merits.
February 14, 2014
The subject certainly isn't dated, but the film's dull post-John Hughes, sub-Judd Apatow style of comedy is like a just-buried time capsule full of accumulated clichés.
February 10, 2014
The film's forced quirkiness and repeated displays of bro-ism in action hinder the potential for a more subtle approach to the potentially challenging issue the story depicts.
