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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Swapped’ on Netflix, a Derivative Yet Appealing Talking-Animal Body-Swap Cartoon

Decider·John Serba·about 1 month ago
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Published May 1, 2026, 4:30 p.m. ET The animated brain-switch comedy is having a moment: Swapped (now on Netflix), which finds two inexplicable cute-animal thingies walking the proverbial mile in each other’s skulls, follows the Pixar hit Hoppers , in which an activist college student has her mind vworped into a robot beaver. The former switcheroo is today’s topic of review, a movie by Tangled director and longtime Disney creative Nathan Greno, who office-swapped over to Netflix recently to spearhead Swapped , a big enough deal to draw recent Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan to voice the lead. Now whether the film can overcome its heavy-handed messaging (a common symptom of children’s films) with its strange and beautiful visuals is the question. SWAPPED : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?  The Gist: It takes a minute to realize that this planet isn’t Earth, and that Ollie (Jordan) isn’t a chipmunk or a gerbil or something.…

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