YMMV / Switch (1991)

• Esoteric Happy Ending: Steve/Amanda may have accepted his/her fate, but what about his/her daughter? She'll grow up without ever getting to know her own birth mother who apparently loved her so much that it redeemed her. It might have been a better ending had the baby subplot been the focus and introduced earlier into the movie, as Steve/Amanda learning to love through being a mother could have also been its own arc or been the conscious way he/she decides to try and get into heaven.
• Memetic Mutation: The trailer, which is infamous for the bit where the film's title is said, followed by a different voice quickly adding "Jimmy Smits" without even a "starring" or "featuring" beforehand.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The film sidesteps every opportunity to explore the sexual politics of Steve/Amanda's situation, and whether he/she can be considered gay or straight. Her attempt at a lesbian relationship is cut off by her old self being such a homophobe that she literally faints at the idea, and her one piece of straight sex happens during a drunken blackout, negating any need for discussion between them. In the end, we're left with a bunch of mindless slapstick without any interest in actually saying anything about the subjects it touches on. It's all pretty baffling considering Blake Edwards had earlier reveled in this kind of material in Victor/Victoria with much better results.
• Values Dissonance: The blackout drunk sex is not given the kind of writing it needed to have for modern audiences, and even for a 90s screwball comedy, it's still rather cringeworthy. Walter doesn't act as if anything monstrous has been done when in reality, drunken sex will always have consent issues to it because the parties are too inebriated to consider the ramifications of having sex. Most people in modern times watching this film un-spoiled would likely become very uncomfortable with how the subplot is handled—there is an argument about it the next morning when they wake up, but that's about it—and it's further complicated since he/she becomes pregnant by Walter and decides to keep the baby. The movie should have at least explored the idea that Steve/Amanda started to have bisexual feelings for Walter due to being in a female body or even just that even though he's a total jerk (before his character development), he did genuinely love his best friend when he was still alive and now still loves him as a woman. As it stands, the movie brushes off the fact that it could count as lack of consent or dubious consent when in reality it definitely should have addressed the issue.

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