My Findings….
The “Realisation Scream” ….does not take place , already I feel uneasy.
The “McGuffin” seems to involve a spectacular car crash involving Burns and his grandson. Afterwards it seems that Burns has had his dream come true by occupying his 18 year old grandsons body. What isn’t made clear is what happens to the grandson. There are no chuckle inducing moments of a teenager finding himself in the saggy 81 year old skin of his grandad and you are left feeling that if his grandson were lucky enough to have survived that crash then he is probably languishing, babbling incoherently , horribly injured in an old peoples ward somewhere.
NO moral lessons whatsoever seem to be on offer here. The grandfather has stolen his grandsons body , seemingly without regret , ostensibly to molest teenage girls.
Vice Versa
Released the same year as Big , Vice Versa was always it poorer cousin despite the best efforts of Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage. Here the swap bodies or they morph into each other at least…whatever.
