Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

The housewife Helena (Glória Pires) has an argument with her workaholic husband Claudio (Tony Ramos) because he refuses to travel to Italy on vacations and leave the agency where he works and Helena sends him out of their house. Claudio moves to the apartment of his single friend Nelsinho (Cássio Gabus Mendes) in Arpoador. Meanwhile their spoiled daughter discovers that she is pregnant and wants to tell their parents about the baby. Claudio is forced by Nelsinho to go to a night-club and Helena sees her husband with a woman in the door of the place and believes he is cheating her. On the next morning, she asks the divorce; after the first hearing, they switch bodies again in the lift. When Helena arrives home, her daughter tells the news to her increasing the crisis in the family. The first "Se Eu Fosse Você" does not have an original idea, since there are many movies of switch of sex, but it is very funny and witty. Unfortunately the producers decided to repeat the wasted old formula combined with awful merchandising of a cable television and a newspaper and the result is terrible. Glória Pires again is fantastic and responsible for the few best moments of the movie. Tony Ramos with waxed eyebrow is too gay this time and I did not like his performance. The plot is shallow and full of clichés like in soap operas, following the "Globo" network standard and frivolous and simplistic view of society with the spoiled pregnant teenager marrying a wealthy young man or the couple resolving their profound marriage issues with the wedding of their daughter and an unexpected pregnancy in a ridiculous alienation of reality. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Se Eu Fosse Você 2" ("If I Were You 2")

The first movie wasn't original at all. Minds changing? "Oh, its a couple now, so its a totally new movie". Yeah, right...I knew what I was about to see but even knowing it was disappointing. It's exactly the same thing of the first movie: jokes about male looking female, gay gags, sexist jokes... Its as fun as annoying. The main actors are really good and are the reason for I give it 2 stars and not only 1.But... The most annoying thing is that I came to theater expecting to watch a movie, not a soap opera. This was made by Globo and it was obvious that they would use only their cast and that wasn't a real problem, even with the awful acting of minor characters. The director runned a soap opera on a big screen and there is a plenty of useless scenes just to show "hey, I can make this special effect" but, after all, he was just saying "sorry, thats all I can do". While I was watching some meaningless scene I thought I was about to watch a TV commercial. And, yes, there as a bunch of stupid commercials of a cable TV. I don't know if we Brazilians cant advertise on films (the main character worked in an advertising company, by the way) or if they just don't accept to just show their logo besides have all the characters saying to the audience about how their products are so good and fantastic.And... the end of the movie... here comes the spoiler...Its just a typical soap opera ending... The teen daughter was pregnant? So she get married with her ultrarich fiancé. They switched back and everything was as normal as usual... but... she was also pregnant!!! OMG!! So they forget about divorce and get together again. Isn't that beautiful? I must say that at least on the ending the director was clever and shows a fake sequel promo.