What happens when a pair of ancient earrings transposes the mind of a 18-year-old college girl into the body of a 30-year-old petty criminal and slob. And vice versa.

Dragging up has been a staple of comedy cinema - Dustin Hoffman delighted as Tootsie and even Robin Williams was at his less mawkish as Mrs Doubtfire.

However, Schneider's crack at the genre is so half-witted and uninspired it seems he just got bored with the idea half-way through.

"I just made myself emotionally available and tried to avoid the craft service tray," said the star of The Animal - one of unfunniest comedies of recent memory.

On the basis of this, the only thing Schneider made himself available for was his pay cheque at the end of the shoot.

Jessica (Schneider) has to first convince her friend April (Faris) who she really is then recruit Jessica's old friends to her cause.

To Jessica's parents, she/he is a Mexican gardener while at Jessica's school she/he lands a job as the janitor.

However, April finds herself falling in love with Jessica-as-a-man while Jessica learns she has been taking advantage of her boyfriend Billy (Lawrence).

A lot of good things could have happened here with the stories of both "male" Jessica and ne'r do well Clive as a woman (McAdams) being pursued.

But debut director Brady concentrates on Schneider's character only briefly returning to the tale of Clive, who is making a living mugging dupes and lapdancing.

As Jessica, Schneider appears content to prance about dressed in crop tops and briefs while occasionally lapsing into camp as opposed to feminine.

Quite what his handle on the character is remains a mystery and the potential for farce, even low as opposed to high, is studiously ignored.

It's lazy, cliched film-making dictated by the accountants and handed to a gang of the usual suspects (Adam Sandler's on board) to do with what they will.

Tim Evans