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45 reactions from 2 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Dec 6, 2025 · last updated Oct 11, 2026 · How this works
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Family Switch is a 2023 comedy fantasy family film, directed by McG, starring Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms and Emma Myers.
- 39 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon
- posts span Oct 22, 2023 to Dec 6, 2025
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45 of 45 · most liked firstFucking unhinged Christmas Movie Night again. Tonight it is a film called Family Switch, which is a holiday Freaky Friday, but a whole family. Also the members of Weezer have acting roles in it? It’s like aggressively non-religious, and pure insanity. I am so confused rn. (Positive)
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched the body swap movie FAMILY SWITCH. Blown away by the random Weezer cameo as the other guys in Ed Helms' band, made all the weirder by the fact that he has a Weezer poster in his garage. Didn't he notice they were clones of his buddies?
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Family Switch on Netflix and I'm kind of amazed. It feels like a movie 100% *not* written as a Christmas movie, that then had Christmas awkwardly grafted on. It's very weird as a result.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok I have the worst Christmas movie (The Family Switch) and the second worst (Oh What Fun). My god, how can such an epic cast turn into such a turkey??? #movies #christmas
negative · AI labelView post →This week’s episode of Why Are You Doing This to Me features the brilliant & hilarious @jnraeside.bsky.social dissecting the accidental horror movie that is Family Switch! A great time was had! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched 2.5 minutes of Family Switch, a new Netflix Christmas movie, and tapped out at an un-ironic Elon Musk reference. In a movie from 2023. Maybe an extreme reaction but like... If you're making that joke can I trust you're not a dick?
negative · AI labelView post →Tonight's pick was a random one that I didn't know was a "Christmas film". I will say it was a relatively ok time, but both I and the film itself forgot about the Christmas element for a good hour or so. Also the CGI was diabolical 💀 4/25 Title: Family Switch Release Date: 2023 Director: McG
neutral · AI labelView post →My daughter loves the movie Family Switch. Which is a fine family movie. But Ed Helms in the movie dropped out of a band that then got huge. When he reveals that the band was called Maroon 6 I always laugh so hard. Such a dumb joke, but I love it.
positive · AI labelView post →I just finished watching Family Switch and it was really good. I orgasmed everytime Weezer appeared. I loved Emma Myers in the movie, I love Emma Myers. Emma Myers 😍. Emma Myers 😍. Emma Myers 😍. #movies #familyswitch #weezer #emmamyers #ihaventsleptinthreedays #notimpressiveiknowbutiusuallysleep
positive · AI labelView post →this is his second Netflix movie within the last 12 months and it being better than the first one, FAMILY SWITCH, is not exactly saying much
negative · AI labelView post →“There are absolutely no surprises that you can expect in this movie but there are certainly some moments that give you second-hand embarrassment.” Read my ‘FAMILY SWITCH’ review on FandomWire here:
neutral · AI labelView post →I think I just watched the worst Christmas movie ever made. Family Switch. It’s like Freaky Friday with Christmas stapled on and I don’t wish it on anyone. 😂
negative · AI labelView post →My wife is at dinner with work friends so I'm like, let's put on a Christmas movie. That sounds fun, right? Couldn't make it 5 minutes into Family Switch. Holy shit this movie sucks
negative · AI labelView post →I have been absent on here for awhile and feel I need a film post. Ummm...The Substance is still my fave film this year, enjoyed Wicked Part One but my bladder disagreed, and also saw Hot Frosty on Netflix. That happened. Oh and quite liked Family Switch.
positive · AI labelView post →FAMILY SWITCH on Netflix is…Meh, at best. When it’s not reveling in fart jokes or using weird baby-acts-like-dog cgi it’s exactly what you expect, with lines like, “I feel like I’m 13 going on 30” [insert groan here]. It is 100% a Christmas movie though, start to finish.
neutral · AI labelView post →@tomchansky.bsky.social we watched the new Netflix Christmas movie Family Switch and Weezer was in it.
neutral · AI labelView post →My 3 star review of Family Switch -- including the origin of the family body-switch genre. https://rogerebert.com/reviews/family-switch-movie-review-2023 #familyswitch #jennifergarner #edhelms @netflix
neutral · AI labelView post →Yep, Netflix's FAMILY SWITCH is definitely a Christmas movie. youtu.be/SWh4c9EVqGM?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Had been seeing lots of outlets including Netflix's FAMILY SWITCH, starring Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms, Rita Moreno, Emma Myers & Brady Noon, in holiday movie lists, and while first-look photos aren't overtly festive, Netflix's description does confirm it takes place at Christmas.
neutral · AI labelView post →I am so so sorry to report that the McG Netflix movie FAMILY SWITCH does explore this dynamic, albeit with a baby and a dog switching brains. It is the only part of that movie I feel comfortable discussing in a public setting. (It gets weirdly incesty.)
neutral · AI labelView post →So Freakier Friday is just like the Netflix movie Family Switch where they decided to make the whole family switch bodies. This is a sequel to the original Freaky Friday but this time its the original first 2 but her daughters also switch bodies. Disney really can't handle other movies doing amazing
neutral · AI labelView post →On the 4th day of Christmas, I watched a (pretty mid) holiday movie. Family Switch stars Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms in a Freaky Friday scenario except an entire family is affected until they find empathy and the true meaning of Christmas. Rita Moreno and somehow the entirety of Weezer also star.
neutral · AI labelView post →#RecentlyWatched: Family Switch (2023). Christmas is family time so I have to endure some less then stellar flicks. This movie was heavily inspired by the 80s smash hit "Big" with Tom Hanks. The result was very middle of the road. Not gonna watch this one again. 5/10
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie 40. The Family Switch It’s like Freaky Friday, and The Parent Swap, but with a whole family, dog and all. It’s a Christmas movie in the same way Die Hard is a Christmas movie. ☃️☃️☃️/5 Meh.
neutral · AI labelView post →2: Family Switch Caught passively while cleaning the house, cute little body swap Christmas movie, some cringey moments but a very classic type of all-ages comedy movie that’s fun to see still showing up nowadays. Cute and harmless.
positive · AI labelView post →It’s taken me 11 months. But finally got round to watching Family Switch on Netflix. Is it amazing? Nope! Is it unique and original? Nope! It’s just a nice, simple, funny, familiar type of movie. Recommend watching!
positive · AI labelView post →The Family Switch sure is an absurdly silly movie that everyone in Los Angeles agreed to be in.
neutral · AI labelView post →Would be the dream to waste my time and money sitting in a movie theatre watching Old Dads, The Family Switch, Lift or a repertory screening of That's My Boy and cackling all the way through like Max Cady
neutral · AI labelView post →FAMILY SWITCH (2023, dir. McG) Sometimes you spend time with family and you don't get to decide the movie you're watching It wasn't terrible. Harmless generic Jennifer Garner Mom Era fare.
neutral · AI labelView post →"I see films in a musical capacity" McG joins Kyle Meredith With to talk about body switch movies, his 90s music videos, & having Weezer in Netflix's Family Switch www.lpm.org/music/2023-1...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll be hanging with director McG tonight to talk about his new film Family Switch! You'll also hear favorites from The Kinks, Violent Femmes, Lush, Flaming Lips, White Stripes, Big Thief, Greg Brown, Morrissey, Smoking Popes, Merry Clayton, PJ Harvey... 6p ET on WFPK #JenniferGarner #emmamyers
neutral · AI labelView post →FAMILY SWITCH drinking game: 1. Take a shot when you spot an actor who appeared in another Netflix film or series. 2. Take a bonus shot when you catch a reference to a certain Netflix game show. 3. Take two bonus shots when the cast drops the title to another body-switch movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Family Switch last night and it's a perfectly adequate Christmas movie. Jennifer Garner is a delight. I made a vow early in life: I will watch every movie with either a body switching plot or a Batman.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you watch the new Christmas movie Family Switch it has the band Weezer in it for a few cameos. Most people probably wouldn't know this but I knew when I saw them cuz I'm a dork.
neutral · AI labelView post →The cast in Family Switch were great, but the direction just wasn’t there. I’d love to see them do another movie together though as I think as an ensemble, they work, but this plot just didn’t suit any of them (except Ed Helms).
negative · AI labelView post →It was too good to keep to myself (and Family Switch wasnʼt), so Iʼve written a review of the film I saw in my dream. Every detail as I remember it! boxd.it/5mn6fb
neutral · AI labelView post →Family Switch and Candy Cane Lane are on my radar for family movie nights over winter break. Anyone think either is … good?
neutral · AI labelView post →#FamilySwitch #cinemastodon #filmastodon #movies My ★★½ review of Family Switch on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/5iIZE7
negative · AI labelView post →Folks, I think I have found a decent Christmas film! It's called Family Switch! It has Jennifer Garner and Wet Leg on the soundtrack!!
positive · AI labelView post →It was the greatest weekend of my life as Japanese Godzilla movie at long last got the box office buzzing. This week's Cinema Playground Journal features Godzilla Minus One, Dream Scenario, Silent Night, Family Switch, Candy Cane Lane, and The Shift mst3krifftrax.blogspot.com/2023/12/cine...
neutral · AI labelView post →Family Switch...Jennifer Garner does the "America's Mom" bit with a slew of Netflix regulars. Rita Moreno feels wasted. The novelty wears off pretty quickly because you have seen this movie before. Walkers never quit, but I am almost did on this one. Thumbs down.
negative · AI labelView post →Family Switch with Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms 🎄🎄🎄🎄 Soooooo cheesy and honestly more of a body swap movie than a true Christmas movie but it is unusually self-aware and meta (also I love Jennifer Garner!). Jason Sudeikis totally stole Ed Helms career though 😆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWh4...
neutral · AI labelView post →This week I review #FamilySwitch, #GodzillaMinusOne, #AmericanSymphony, #EileenMovie, and #RobotDreams https://lastonetoleavethetheatre.blogspot.com/2023/12/family-switch.html
neutral · AI labelView post →Family Switch ⭐1/2 "If this movie has one thing in its favor, it would be its cast. Everyone is putting in some A+ work playing their dual roles. The movie's scripting and craftwork keeps pulling the rug out from under them and preventing them from really delivering something charming."
negative · AI labelView post →McG directed some of the most iconic music videosfrom Korn, Smash Mouth, Sugar Ray, BNL, Fastball, & Spacehog. So yeah, I'm excited to have him on the series today as we discuss all of that and his new body switch movie, Family Switch, out tomorrow on Netflix. consequence.net/2023/11/mcg-...
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