In our previous article on the Top Body Swap Films You Haven’t Seen, we shared with you some of the best Body Swap films of this film subgenre. Due to the popularity of that article (and video), we’re creating a follow-up article with even more lesser-known Body Swap films you haven’t seen.
Though most of these films are not as good as the films listed in our previous article, if you enjoy the Body Swap film subgenre, you should find some of these films just as entertaining. Some of these films feature male to male body swaps, younger to older body swaps, older to younger body swaps, male to female body swaps, female to male body swaps and even one French film with a very funny animal to male body swap!
We included some updated text below from our previous article if you’d like more information on all Body Swap films.
Of all the Comedy Film subgenres, Body Swap Films tend to follow a few tried and true themes. These themes include gender body swaps and age body swaps. Two sub-themes that are also explored in this subgenre are reincarnation and time travel where a person from the present occupies their same self or someone else in the past or future.
The Body Swap subgenre was represented in the 1970’s by a few films – mainly Freaky Friday (1976) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). It wasn’t until the 1980’s that this subgenre became popular with a rash of films from 1984 – 1989. These films included All of Me (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Like Father Like Son (1987), Vice Versa (1988) and 18 Again! (1988). The King of Body Swap Films actually came at the end of this trend with Tom Hanks in Big (1988). Big is by far the most popular Body Swap film and and helped define the subgenre moving forward.
As other past trends have shown, it wasn’t until the 2000’s that we again saw a repeat of the Body Swap Film subgenre with films such as The Hot Chick (2002), the remake of Freaky Friday (2003), 13 Going on 30 (2004), and 17 Again (2009). Most recently we’ve seen a variation of the Body Swap subgenre crossover with the Superhero/Comic subgenre and Action-Adventure subgenre with Shazam! (2019) and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017).
The 2000’s have seen two Body Swap films to date with Freaky (2020) and Swap Me, Baby (2022).
Our list of Body Swap Films includes over 41+ films that span different genres including Comedy, Science Fiction and even Horror. For films that are not technically Body Swap films but utilize similar themes (i.e. a person explores a parallel timeline where their life is different), our list of Contemporary & Urban Fantasy Films and list of Alternate History Films will most likely include those types of films. Our list of Family Films With Animals will have films that also aren’t necessarily body swap films but feature a human becoming an animal or inhabiting the body of an animal. Films such as The Shaggy Dog (2006) would be found in this collection.
We have embedded a compilation video of More Body Swap Films You Haven’t Seen and more details on these films can be found in the list below. Note: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
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