Moglie e marito

I absolutely loved this movie. There are many body swap comedies out there but this one was wonderful, better than most that I saw.

The story is really good. It has lots of humor and a lot of great moments. Besides that it also has lots of feelings and made me really want to swap minds with my husband for a few days! It is wonderful to watch how they are starting to understand each other more.

The acting is perfect in my opinion. Both of them showed the behavior and gestures of the opposite gender very believable.

I loved the first scene at the couples therapy: great music, good acting, nice song choice, beautifully edited etc. The idea is not new, but the trailer was promising. And then we got a comedy mainly favouring the husband's point of view. Which is disappointing and makes the jokes a bit predictable. The tampon one was utterly forced. I mean a doctor who would not know how to use it? A surgeon who wouldn't know how to read the autocue? Ah, they missed out on so many good jokes! Smutniak was brilliant: the hand gestures, the posture, yet Favino overplayed it a bit too much (oh my, he is handsome as ever though). To me the wife did not come off as a whiny b*tch at the therapy, yet the minute they switched bodies Favino started talking on a high pitched voice and being overly theatrical. I thought he's going to stop after they both calm down and acknowledge the fact of the mind-swap, but no. All in all it was not bad, but that's what we say about the ice cream tubs we bought at supermarket because we were lazy to visit that delicious Italian ice cream parlour four blocks away.

Can an Italian comedy be predictable, nonsense and boring as an American one? This is the best example of one achieving all that.