It’s What’s Inside
It’s What’s Inside
It’s What’s Inside: There is one overarching reason to make a body-swap movie. Let’s get one thing very clear though: while it is true that on occasions, metafictional films do try to encourage the audience to learn some level of compassion and understanding by walking around in somebody else’s skin and lending themselves to imaginary prepositions. But a body-swap movie has one true purpose, and that is to cause us amusement seeing someone try to be someone else.
“Freaky Friday”- a mother and daughter change roles and it is comedic. “13 Going on 30”- a teenage girl wakes up in the body of a cruel beautiful magazine editor and it is amusing. “Big”- a child’s mind is encased in an adult man’s body, and it’s funny. ‘Jumanji’: four teenagers are morphed in to a muscle man, his midget side kick, a nerd and a hot babe and it makes you chuckle.
In the effort not to be outdone, ‘It’s What’s Inside’ also is making an attempt to be dangerous. When you look at the plot of Greg Jardin’s comedy, one must admit it does have a certain promise: Seven friends in their twenties who attended college come together on a picturesque estate, which belongs to one of them who is to tie the knot the next day.
They are going to have one boozy night before the wedding during which nobody wants to party. Of the two people that make up the couple, one has been fighting with the other for quite some time. There is a guy who has a crush on one of the girls; one of the girls, the blonde, has become a wannabe – no, an actual influencer; the other girls, they also have their lives now too.
Then an eighth friend comes in, a friend that hasn’t contacted anybody in ages, the last time he did was years ago at a college party due to some regretful and unfortunate circumstances. He is holding a b odd box with a weird apparatus inside, which turns out, allows them to switch places. He suggests conducting a party game with mafia-like elements, involving the box; that is when things begin to spiral out of control.
“It’s What’s Inside” has somewhat of an aura of the film “Bodies Bodies Bodies” (2022) which is a disgusting horror-comedy about a group of digitally addicted young people who are wasted in the house, who want to play a kind of postmodern version of hot potato.
However, while that one zigged and zagged, “It’s What’s Inside” plods through in a linear manner. Even the twists come off as predictable and rather dull, quite the anti climax rather than the unexpected turns of events that the audience and readers are hoping for, rather a catching up with plot points that had being left hanging way earlier.
The lumpiness is at times surprising, to say the least. This is a good idea. When it comes to the casting some of the blame needs to be placed there; a number of the cast members give zany & entertaining performances while the rest seem to be just reading, poorly, the various lines.
Some of it is also in a somewhat off begging direction, that is to say rather flashy self advertisement inclusive of even some pretty odd lighting and too quick cutting and stopping. At times it does not really add and indeed perhaps detracts.
But the most jarring thing about ‘It’s What’s Inside’ is the fact that it is almost as if the creators did not understand the appeal of body-switching films. There is also nothing funny to counterbalance the juxtaposition here, that’s very more flat than very more funny.
It could be quite amusing seeing a person, your friend for a long time, appear on another friend’s face. However, for those who have seen the film, apart from the characters’ outward appearances, those disparities would be rather obscure, for want of a better term.
These are eight characters who are not very different from one another. One is an influencer, a stoner, a party guy, an uptight one – there are too many of them and they all are backfilling where they are not needed and where it just gets one how unclear it is and why is that even interesting.
Hence, they are outlined vaguely enough to make it impossible to understand how they are expected to behave and hence, when they break character, to recognize it. So we throw them the clues, we know we have to laugh but we have not known them enough for laughter.
I think it is unfortunate that by its very nature, a body-switch comedy is usually effective in eliciting laughter from an audience. But this party isn’t the kind of party you would want to go lunatic over. At the end, you would rather sit and wish, no, you could have not been invited in the first place.
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- Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-fic, Thriller
- Country: United States
- Director: Greg Jardin
- Cast: Brittany O'Grady, James Morosini, Gavin Leatherwood
