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Maybe there's something wrong with me, but I think this movie's great. There's lots of hilarious (and clean) sight gags, slapstick and laugh-out-loud situations.

Dudley Moore, obviously the far more superior comedian, is fantastic as a teenager stuck in an adult's body. He has many funny scenes and milks them for all they're worth, my favourite being the chewing gum/cigarette incident. The looks on his co-stars' faces is priceless. Watch also for Moore's date with Margaret Colin (that goes really badly) and when he does the rounds at the hospital.

Unfortunately, there are a few flaws. There's a bit of swearing and sexual reference (which would make it an otherwise very suitable film for kids). It wastes the talent of Catherine Hicks in a surprisingly pointless and unnecessary role and Sean Astin is super-annoying (as always) as the "wacky" best friend/sidekick. The film also resorts to schmaltz at the end when it goes for a warm and fuzzy finale.

Otherwise, a great film that's lots and lots of fun. Funky soundtrack and wonderful flashback to the delightfully tacky fashions and hairstyles of the '80s.

Like Father Like Son was made at the height of Kirk Cameron's bubblegum popularity as teen idol, courtesy of his television series Growing Pains which was dominating the ratings in 1987. Cameron was just getting into his fundamentalist religion kick so the script couldn't be too naughty.

As it is it's a mildly amusing comedy of the Freaky Friday vein, only this time it's a father and son, Kirk's father in this case being Dudley Moore. Kirk's your typical teenage kid, just looking for a good time and not too serious. Moore is a very serious and respected surgeon who would like to be the new chief of staff at his hospital to replace Patrick O'Neal's whose recommendation on a replacement will probably make or break a candidate.

Kirk's got some troubles of his own in the form of shapely Camille Cooper who's hitting on him. She's the girl friend of jock Micah Grant who hates Kirk and his friend Sean Astin.

In fact Astin's archaeologist uncle is the cause of all the problems that Moore and Cameron face. The uncle Bill Morrison has come back from a dig at the Navajo reservation with a body transference medicine that Astin thinks would be worth a few laughs, even experimenting with a dog and cat on it. But when the maid thinks it's a condiment and Moore and Cameron use it on the spaghetti, strange things happen.

Each lives about 36 hours in the other's bodies and the other's lives and generally make a mess of it. If you've seen both versions of Freaky Friday you've got a general idea of what's going to happen.

The film did reasonably well at the box office though it failed to make Cameron a movie star. That didn't happen until Kirk started playing on the Christian film circuit. Moore and Cameron and Astin work well together and it's still mildly amusing.

Like Father, Like Son is probably most appealing to 80s fans, presenting typical teen genre conflicts as well as 80s teen stars, Kirk Cameron and Sean Astin. Young kids might appreciate it simply for the story (despite it's lack of novelty) of a teenager getting all the priveleges of being an adult, while only having to change appearance and not attitude. The decade however, offering a nauseating selection of role switching comedies and parodies, may have the rest of us looking to avoid this repetition and searching for something else on the shelves.

Chris Hammond (Kirk Cameron) is a high school senior. He's an average student, a decent track team participant, and likes a girl at school who happens to be dating a psychotic jock bully. And, his dad, Jack (Dudley Moore) is breathing down his neck to get him an ivy league school to study pre-med, leaving Chris secretly wanting to tell his dad to just let him make his own decisions about what he wants to do.

Chris's buddy, Trigger (Sean Astin), has a wacky uncle who's staying with him. He lived in the desert for awhile, experimenting with body-switching potions. Trigger gets a hold of the brain transference serum and it switches Chris and Jack's brains so that Chris is Jack and Jack is Chris. There's a mistake here, in that their accents should've switched as well, since when Trigger tried it on the cat and dog, the cat barked at the dog and the dog meowed at the cat.

But, it makes for a whole lot of trouble. The incredibly boring and sometimes big-shot Dr. Hammond has to settle on being a teenager awhile. And Chris has to settle for being Dr. Hammond, both without screwing things up. For Dr. Hammond, he hopes to get the ordeal with over quickly; but for Chris, there's advantages to not having to show up for school, take tests, and the like. But, they each grow quite irritable of the situation as they tend to screw up each other's lives. Dr. Hammond has a few nasty run-ins with the bully as Chris. And Chris, involved in an affair with the boss's wife, not only sets the living room on fire, but also risks his father's chances of becoming chief of staff.

I still think it's a fun movie for kids and probably teenagers. Safe family fun for the most part anyways due to lack of sex, violence, and for the most part, language. However, Kirk Cameron did tend to get quite annoying at parts as the whiny teenager. Actually, Trigger was one of the best characters in the movie as a sort of slacker friend of Chris, except he's not in the movie all that much. I did like Chris as Dr. Hammond during the hospital scenes, when he had to take his med students on rounds, and didn't know what the heck he was doing. It has it's moments.

In 1976 there was Freaky Friday. This movie came out in 1987 and Vice Versa in 1988. I liked both of those better than this.

If you haven't guessed the plot by now then let me apprise you. It is a body swap film. Dr. Jack Hammond (Dudley Moore) accidentally drinks a brain swap serum and ends up trading bodies with his son Chris (Kirk Cameron). Neither of them even try to pretend to be the other as they carry on in different bodies, in different environments, but with the exact same behavior.

The monumental difference between this movie and Vice Versa (starring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage) is that in Vice Versa the son was a 10-year-old-boy. It's actually funnier, and in some ways adorable, to see a kid that young attempting to be an adult. Even if he tries his best he's going to fail.

In this movie, the son is seventeen so he has an inkling of what it takes to be an adult, or he can at least fake it. Chris not only doesn't try to be adult for the sake of his father, he actually regresses. I mean that he was acting more immature in his adult body than he did in his teenage body. I find nothing funny about a seventeen-year-old acting like he's ten.

In the late 1980s there were several body swap teen comedies that emerged in a short space of time. Tom Hanks in Big was the big one and the others were judged against it.

Like Father Like Son is a likable comedy but drastically lacks a plot, wastes some of its actors and seems to be a series of sketches.

Kirk Cameron plays a high school teenager who with the aid of a Native Indian portion mixes his mind with his brilliant surgeon father, Dudley Moore.

Now its Moore who acts as the kid and Cameron goes to school with his adult know how which irritates the other students and his best friend, Sean Astin.

They both have to get used to their new bodies, Moore has to navigate a promotion but upsets his hospital boss by siding with a colleague to offer medicine to those without insurance and fooling around with his wife.

Moore is in his element when he is having fun as a teenager and Cameron is very good as the more uptight one after the body swap, maybe he was just being himself!

Patrick O'Neal and Catherine Hicks are rather wasted in this very 1980s comedy. Its sporadically funny and mildly enjoyable.

This Freaky Friday type of movie has a very strange start, sort of similar to The Hot Chick. A wounded man staggers around in the desert, and he comes across a group of Indians who cure him. They feed him a liquid that allows him to temporarily change places with the next person he looks at, so he won't feel the pain while they operate on his leg. Then, the rest of the movie takes place in contemporary (1987) suburbia. Dudley Moore is a respected doctor whose son, Kirk Cameron, is a high school student who has no interest in science. Kirk's pal and neighbor, Sean Astin, gets ahold of the formula and accidentally slips it in Dudley's coffee. He looks at his son, and they switch!

It's a very sweet, dated concept that unfortunately can't continue to be remade. Teenagers don't need to borrow their parents' ID to get drinks, and going on a spending spree with their credit card isn't even a thrill. "Borrowing" Dad's credit card is commonplace, and fake IDs are extremely prevalent. Also, as children have become more sexually active at a younger age, that advantage of "old age" is no longer a temptation either. But in 1987, it was still adorable and funny. It's very cute to see Dudley ordering his first martini. When the cocktail waitress asks if he wants it on the rocks, he answers, "No, a glass would be fine. And could I have some ice in it?" And when Kirk gives a lecture in school while acting like a total grown-up, it's pretty sweet. This isn't the greatest Freaky Friday spinoff ever, but if you like the cast or the 1980s high school time period, you might appreciate it.

DLM Warning: If you suffer from vertigo or dizzy spells, like my mom does, this movie might not be your friend. The very beginning when the man is staggering around in the desert the camera swirls around a bit. Also when Dudley and Kirk first switch places, the camera is unsteady. Also, then Dudley and Sean decide to go clubbing, there are some canted angles, and that will make you sick. In other words, "Don't Look, Mom!"

High school senior Chris Hammond (Kirk Cameron) features competing pressures as his father Dr. Jack Hammond (Dudley Moore) is pushing him to go to medical school while Chris also deals with making the track team and scoring a date with his dream girl Lori (Camille Cooper). When Chris' best friend Trigger (Sean Astin) brings over some body swapping serum that his archaeologist uncle Earl (Bill Morrison) acquired from some Navajos, accidental ingestion of the potion by Jack leads to him and his son Chris swapping bodies. As Trigger tries to track down his uncle to find an antidote, both Chris and Jack must make the best of being trapped in each others bodies and lives.

Like Father Like Son is the first of five body switching comedies that came about during the period of 1987-1989 (the others being Vice Versa, 18 Again!, Big, and Dream a Little Dream). Why so many similar films came about at the same time has never been concretely established and is cited as an example of the "twin film" phenomenon where its possible that shared scripts throughout production offices and congregation spots for entertainment profession spread similar ideas around multiple offices leading to multiple scripts. In the case of Like Father Like Son, producers Brian Grazer and David Valdes were very interested in making a star vehicle for up and coming teen star Kirk Cameron whose sitcom Growing Pains was in its second season and was one of the biggest hits on TV at the time with producers feeling they could position him as the next Michael J. Fox who like Cameron also broke out on TV with his own series Family Ties. As Cameron was on the cusp of his prominent conversion to Christianity, the movie marked something of a turning point in his career as he specifically accepted it due to its underlying message after turning down several other teen skewing scripts. While the film was a modest performer making around $35 million against a $10 million budget, but critical reception was overwhelmingly negative and Cameron would return to Growing Pains limping along for another 5 seasons and never headline another mainstream film of this size again. In terms of that cycle of body switcheroo comedy films, Like Father Like Son may have been first, but that's not indicative of quality.

From the beginning it becomes pretty clear why this movie isn't going to work as Kirk Cameron is lacking in leading man charm or charisma and often times blends into the background while his sidekick Sean Astin often overshadows him with his better comedic timing and confidence despite being someone who the film treats as second banana. The movie's directed by Rod Daniel who previously directed Michael J. Fox in the decent if unexceptional high concept comedy Teen Wolf (which was really more a testament to Fox' charisma than the script or direction) and without a strong central performer in the material it just goes to show how stiff, awkward, and poorly thought out the humor is in the film. To Dudley Moore's credit he is trying to give some energy to the material, but there's so little character to Chris or Jack Hammond for that matter that more often than not Moore's just forced to prance around to the biggest hits of MTV of the time. The movie features a decent soundtrack, but the songs including the obnoxiously intrusive score of Miles Goodman and Shelly Manne often feel like they're thrown at the audience non-stop in order to pick up the slack of a not very good script and make things seem like they're more energized than they are. The movie also features a very saccharine ending wherein Jack and Chris reconcile with each other and it just does not feel earned because there hasn't been any character growth or lessons learned and it's only here because the movie needs a stopping point without actually putting effort in place to make it make sense.

Aside from serving as a time capsule of MTV and featuring a cameo by the band Autograph, Like Father Like Son was deservedly savaged by critics upon release and is no better now than it was then. When you do a body swap comedy like this it's imperative that you have good actors and good chemistry to sell that comic friction and it's significantly below what Walt Disney Productions was able to do with this premise 11 years earlier with the original Freaky Friday.

I enjoy this movie, I like it even better than Vice Versa, although Leonard Maltin gave it no stars. The biggest exception I noticed about his film, is how Kirk Cameron (Chris Hammond) was only 16, and a senior in high school, 17 in the movie. When in a majority of flicks the actors that age are in the early or mid twenties and look way too old. it's what a real high school looks like, and Clarence (Sean Astin-Samwise, Lord of the Rings Trilogy) his wacky, sarcastic friend, was in this when he was fifteen or sixteen, making him look actually a little young to be a senior. He is the one responsible for the body change, snatching an ancient potion from his archaeologist uncle. Chris' dad, Jack (Dudley Moore) is a heart surgeon, on the verge of being named chief of staff. And Chris is on his biology exam not seeming to have much of a clue what he's talking about, and is an average student. But then they switch bodies and Chris is in his dad's body and his dad has to go to school cause he's in Chris' body, and is really studious in his classes, even smarter than the teachers! While Chris in his dad's body doesn't have the slightest clue what he's doing as a heart surgeon, and has no sophisticated vocabulary, and parties like a child/teenager. Chris has bully problems at school and has to face up to a huge old looking kid who says "dickhead" And the kids at school think Chris is a dork, as his father, but the interns at the hospital think he's a lot of fun, chewing gum, driving a jeep, and taking them out for pizza and beer. The chief-of-staff's wife, a good 25-years younger than him, cheats on her husband and screws around with Jack' in Chris body, which leads to catastrophe. Anyway, I really like this movie. Here are some reasons why, and also why, I think it was superior to the others and should of gotten three stars, if not more. Despite the acting and script being considered inferior, this is the only one that makes me truly "happy" when watching it, it is set in southern California where the sun is always shining during the day. Sean Astin was in this at a young age, the kid is a teenager, and not a child, so there's two girlfriends in the movie. it is priceless watching Dudley Moore party and laugh watching MTV, and dance on the kitchen table to rock and roll. It teaches something about American History and how Okay became a word, through Chris' lecture in his dad's body at school. The interns have a bawl with Jack in Chris' body after work, eating pizza and drinking, Jack, Chris and Clarence go on a little vacation to get the antidote near the end of the movie, and he and his dad, hug each other and Cameron cries on cue, before the conclusion. Am I forgetting anything?

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON was the first of many mind-swapping comedies. This one stars Dudley Moore and `Growing Pains' star Kirk Cameron as father and son who switch bodies after Moore accidentally drinks from a strange Indian potion. For a first timer, this one is absolutely pathetic. Cameron is an okay actor, but he ain't box-office material, and Moore is as wasted as ever and the humor isn't there. Even the concert sequence is dreary. Thankfully, the many imitations that followed fared somewhat better, the best one being BIG. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON is the worst, with a pointless story and all those cliches that turkeys like this are made of. Sleazy and stupid.

0 out of 5

Dudley Moore is hilarious. This terrified and later excited teen in a middle aged man's body gets into so many wild situations. But he is very creative when he has to be and quite a schemer.

Sean Astin is great as the best friend, and why wouldn't he be? Look who his parents are. Well, that doesn't always mean success, but he has gone on to have quite a career, and here we can see why.

Kirk Cameron isn't that highly regarded, and he's no Mike Seaver here. If he has talent, that's the role where he showed it. Here, he's kind of ordinary, but he gets the job done. In the scene with the baby being born he really shines. There is also another kind of stereotypical scene where he goes beyond the usual, As a genius who has trouble with social interaction, he's no Iain Armitage, who is the master.

Cloud Dancing from "Dr. Quinn" is the one who picks up Earl and carries him to the Navajo medicine man. I didn't know this until the closing credits. He was not known for being funny, but now that I know who it was, it was nice to see him with a sense of humor.

Earl is given something to drink and immediately it becomes clear what has happened. The Navajo is horrified to look at the white man and see himself. The white man, apparently speaking the Navajo language, obviously feels the same way.

Some questions I have. Chris has an appointment soon with a Northwestern recruiter. Not sure why Northwestern, because they are driving distance from Death Valley. Oh, well. We also don't know why Jack is British but living in the United States. By the way, this stuff that causes the body switching is clear, so why is Jack going to use that bottle by mistake, rather than the one full of red stuff?

And one last adventure does not involve a car chase. It is just one car, driven recklessly, causing damage to itself and everything else as we must endure a band that put the heavy in metal, one that makes Autograph (which we and Jack had to endure earlier) look like The Eagles. The editing is interesting because we keep going Jack and forth between two locations, and each time we see the car again, the "music" continues from where it left off.

It's not a kids' movie. Some curse words were obviously changed for TV. Who says "dorkhead"? And there is one scene of a sexual nature which, if you remember this man is actually a teenager, is actually in terrible taste, but doesn't go overboard.

But cleaned up for TV as I saw it, I wouldn't say all kids should avoid it. It's pretty childish.

Yes, we've seen this sort of thing before? So what. They're all unique, if you really think about it.

And I had fun.

Chris Hammond (Kirk Cameron) struggles in class. He has a crush on self- obsessed Lori Beaumont despite her giant boyfriend. His best friend Trigger (Sean Astin)'s uncle Earl is working on a brain transference serum derived from a native American potion. Chris and his father Dr. Jack Hammond (Dudley Moore) accidentally take it and switch bodies. Jack is a head hospital surgeon. Dr. Amy Larkin (Catherine Hicks) is a crusader working under him. His boss Dr. Larry Armbruster has flirtatious wife Ginnie (Margaret Colin). Father and son have to live with the switch until they can find uncle Earl.

The characters are not that appealing and the story has nothing new. It's all rather bland and unlikeable. Chris is not nice and his taste is rather superficial in all aspects. Trigger is even worst. They should have gone all out as wild crazy guys although I doubt Cameron is capable. Jack is not much better and borders on boring. Switching from one unappealing character to the other does nothing to make it good. It definitely does not make it funny. The father letting the son work at the hospital amounts to callous malpractice. It's bad mindless writing. This is actually anti-funny.

I could fill pages on why this film is such a pathetic attempt at the "kid/parent" switch comedies of the 80's but let me just give you a quick summary.

This film completely fails to portray how people put into this situation would behave. The best (worst) example of this is the scene when Dudley Moore, playing an 18 year old in a 40 something body, is staying at home alone. He's supposed to be a senior in High School and yet when left at home for 5 minutes he behaves like a 6 year old....playing loud music and jumping on the furniture. Obviously the director just couldn't resist having Dudley Moore jump around like an idiot for a few minutes.

Had the writer and director spent 30 seconds thinking about how people might really try to act in this situation it might have been entertaining...but then again this movie was made about 5 times in the space of 18 months in the late 80's anyway so I think the best idea would have been to get an original idea and not waste everybody's time.

I agree with Roger Ebert on a lot of this movie. First, I agree that Dudly Moore has one good scene and Kirk Cameron has none. Well, Dudly has two I think. Second, I agree that the acting of the movie characters is way off.

This is another of the body swap comedies that came out in 1987-1988. This is the worst one of them. Dudly Moore and Kirk Cameron swap bodies when Kirk's friend Sean Austin sneaks some "mind transfer" serum into Dudley's drink. Then the two of them swap minds. At first of course, they're shocked and upset. After that, the way each one of them acts in each other's body is so way off, unconvincing, and very annoying. Neither of them act even remotely funny and amusing except for Dudly twice at the hospital. Once with the funny way he decides to play with a machine next to a patient's bed, and once, as Ebert mentioned, when he smokes a cigarette while chewing gum at the board meeting. Every, and I mean everything else from both of them was stupid.

Examples of stupid acting while Dudly's mind was in Kirk: the way he arrogantly patronizes his classrooms rubbing his "older education" in everyone's face causing the other kids to really not like him, his loudly snitching on the bully in class right after he throws a wet gob of paper at the blackboard, the way he arrogantly talks to the bully while parking his car while being very unaware of how much he is further angering him (the bully was already getting annoyed with him earlier in the film during track practice), him running in the relay at the track meet and then the way he completely dove into the air like that too short of the finish line (what the hell was that?) and that weird loud breathing when he hit the ground, him on a date with the hot girl at a rock concert and complaining about the loud music, leaving early, then stupidly patronizing her while driving her home. Can you blame her for getting out of his car so turned off? Can you blame the bully for then beating the crap out of him (with what I mentioned he did with the bully earlier, plus him being out with the girl he's interested in)?

Examples of stupid acting while Kirk's mind was in Dudly: his sissy little temper tantrum to Dudly's mind in Kirk while trying to drive to school. His dancing and yelling to loud rock music in the house. His painting the town red with Sean. His overly forced irritating yelling such as the way he was yelling/singing "Jeremiah was a bullfrog" after being dropped off at home by his interns at the hospital, his yelling "I wanna be a doctor! I wanna be a doctor!" at the hospital for no particular reason near the end of the movie, as if he was just finding out for the first time what he was. And what I mentioned before about his yelling and running after his "son" in the car trying to drive to his school.

Then for the supporting characters: the high school kids (the bully, the hot girl, the other cliques that wouldn't except Kirk) were just tired retreads of other 80s high school movies. The seducing woman from the hospital was so snobby, the way she talked to Sean while with Kirk's mind in Dudly at the bar. And when he caught his sofa on fire her reaction was snobby, but he was acting pretty stupid there too so he probably deserved it. The chief executive boss at the hospital was a one dimensional jerk. Dudly did act pretty stupid and annoying, but should a boss completely write off a great surgeon who's been a valuable asset to the hospital for years just for one time speaking out of line at a board meeting ("screw the insurance")?

Doctor Dudley Moore and his teenage son Kirk Cameron end up becoming each other in this terrible little film. A brain transference formula is the cause here. The typical misunderstandings and forced-comedic situations then occur. Moore continued to struggle with roles after his crowning achievement in "Arthur" six years earlier. Cameron, thought to be the biggest star of television's "Growing Pains", was trying to become a bankable movie star. That plan fell flat as well. 2 stars out of 5.

Father Dudley Moore switches bodies with son Kirk Cameron. A silly idea, but that's not the main problem with this sorry excuse for a comedy. It could have been fun if handled correctly. The casting seems interesting too, with the vivacious Dudley Moore and the perky youngster Kirk Cameron from the sitcom Growing Pains in the leads. So everything should be in place for a fun little film, right? Not quite. Like Father Like Son sidesteps the plethora of interesting psychological and ethical aspects of its concept, which could and should have been weaved into the comedy, and instead jumps directly to silly farce and forced setups which mostly become unfunny, annoying, insulting... or all three combined. There are only a few isolated scenes worth a watch in here, most of them thanks to Dudley Moore's talent, the highlight being the scene where he smokes during a hospital board meeting.

"Dr. Jack Hammond" (Dudley Moore) is an extremely successful surgeon at a private hospital who is constantly pressuring his son "Chris Hammond" (Kirk Cameron) to follow in his footsteps. For his part, Chris just wants to have fun in high school and is especially interested in dating the prettiest girl there by the name of "Lori Beaumont" (Camille Cooper). One particular problem with this is that Lori has a boyfriend named "Rick Anderson" (Micah Grant) who has an extreme dislike for Chris in particular. That being said, things quickly spiral out-of-control when Dr. Hammond accidentally drinks a potion which cause his consciousness to be switched with that of his son--and both of them have to function in each other's world. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was an okay comedy which had a couple of enjoyable scenes and, by and large, passed the time fairly well. The problem, however, is that there were a couple of key scenes that simply fell flat at certain critical moments. And it's because of these wasted opportunities that I have rated this film accordingly. Average.

I personally liked this film and really compare it to a similar comedy I enjoyed called "Vice Versa" where father and son exchanged places to create a very similar scenario.

There was a lot to like about this movie and think the ratings overall for whomever saw this movie were disappointing to me but this is life.

I gave this 8 out of 10 stars and deserving. The acting was pretty good for this type of comedy where Daddy is a doctor and his son has to take on his role as they exchange places for a day or so.

Dudley Moore as a doctor is very humorous and his son trying to take on his normal roles as doctor is hilarious.

I really like these kinds of comedies and hope to see more similar in the future. Dudley really didn't act in a whole lot of movies I really enjoyed but this is one of them. Give it a try...think anybody who hasn't seen this movie will surprisingly like it despite ratings:)