Dame tu cuerpo (2002, Mexico)

This is yet another version of the body-swap genre, and it is pretty crudely done. Alex (Rafael Sanchez Navarro) is a macho and chauvinist man, working as a coach for an American football team in Mexico. His friend German (Pedro Alvarez Tostado) is much more gentle, and his fiancée Jackie (Luz Maria Zentina) detests Alex.

The friction is getting on German's nerves, and one night he makes a wish that they truly understand each other. A cosmic astrological event takes place and the next morning Alex and Jackie have exchanged bodies.

with a woman"> The film goes downhill from there, as both the "exchangees" bumble around, with stereotype gender displays and embarrassingly crude acting our of the other gender's body language.

Inevitably Jackie has to coach the football team -- doesn't that sound familiar?

The plot development now is that German and Alex are going to get married soon; whom does he really love now, Jackie's body (containing the slobbish Alex's mind) or Alex's body?

HF March 2007

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