It's What's Inside

A welcome dose of shock therapy.

An ingenious, wildly stylish new take on the body-swap movie, this deserves to be a Gen-Z cult classic. 

“It’s What’s Inside” is a fun jaunt through the dynamics of a friend group and the interiorities of its members, even as it sanitizes its potential.

It’s What’s Inside understands the concept of sympathy, but with people like this, the movie advises against it.

But the roughest thing about “It’s What’s Inside” is that it simply misses what makes body-swapping movies fun. There’s little humor to be found in juxtaposition here.

... Everybody knows gawking at being in someone else’s skin is a body-swap movie prerequisite. These are just dull people who happen to be in a visually adventurous film.

Best of all, Jardin’s film has a personality, a makeup all its own that includes title cards and a mix of tunes that keep us on our toes and enthused. These days, it’s a lot to ask a film you’re watching to have its own personality.

A bunch of fun to experience in a giddy daze or perhaps with pen and paper in hand, mapping shifting identities and how current motivations are driven by past feelings and lingering curiosities.

Jardin's brings his solid, if flawed, screenplay to life with gorgeous visuals and a game cast.

Jardin's directorial eye is the film's greatest asset. Visually, this is a great calling card. Narratively, though, there are some weaknesses: fewer characters and a more adventurous swapping of the genders would have made the story stronger.