Vice Versa is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage.

Marshall and Charlie visit the museum and talk with Professor Kerschner, who explains the true nature of the skull and wishes to show it to a lama before returning it to them.

"[3]Movie historian Leonard Maltin seemed to agree, giving the picture 3 out of a possible 4 stars: "Not up to Big, but better than it ought to be; both Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage appear to be having a whale of a time in their roles.

Less enthusiastic was Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times, who wrote that it "may be a better film than Like Father, Like Son, largely because of the direction and Savage's performance, but it's still a disappointment.

Here, producer-writers Ian La Fresnais and Dick Clement (Otley, Water) give us mostly a collection of obvious gags, traipsing wheezingly from one point to another."

[5]Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that "Luck doesn't get any worse than it has for Vice Versa, the twin of an identically plotted film released only a few months previously.

Like Father, Like Son had Dudley Moore, who brought a certain sly sophistication to the role of a grown man with the mind of a small boy, while Vice Versa, which opens today at Loews Astor Plaza and other theaters, has Judge Reinhold, who concentrates more on the innocent silliness of the situation.

Both of them have found gentle humor in the plight of a grown man sent off to junior high school while his carefree, irresponsible, career-wrecking son fills in for him on the job.

Internationally, Derek Malcolm wrote in The Guardian that "the film opens well, since father has divorced his wife and has little time for his son, making the sudden transformation the more piquant.

But the film, though scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, never strays very far from orthodox Hollywood comedy, though put together with enough skill to be fairly watchable throughout.

"[7] David Robinson of the London newspaper The Times wrote: The script, by Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, develops some amusing variations on the story, like the infant father's chagrin at watching his mistress lavish her affections on the sexually unresponding grown-up child; and at being handed over to the smothering custody of the woman with whom, as husband, he was unable to live.

Fred Savage is a likeable little boy, not handicapped by his physical cuteness, and turning in a good comic performance as the fussy, peremptory and Martini-guzzling cut-down father.