Ever since debuting on Netflix on November 19, 2020, Mike Rohl's The Princess Switch: Switched Again has remained one of the streamer's trendiest titles. The sequel to the 2018 body-swapping family comedy, The Princess Switch, resumes the unlikely tale of Duchess Margaret (Vanessa Hudgens), a royal luminary who resorts to the help of a twin lookalike to get her out of a personal crisis. To make matters worse, a third doppelganger arrives and throws a wrench in the plan.
While the film doesn't technically feature twin siblings, but rather spitting images, there are many other great comedic movies about twins to watch in tandem with The Princess Switch: Switched Again.
Father Figures (2017)
Despite the critical and commercial drubbing it took upon release in 2017, Father Figures is a good-natured and warmhearted comedy about fraternal twin brothers.
Ed Helms and Owen Wilson play Peter and Kyle Reynolds, two fraternal twins who discover that their mother lied about their father being dead after seeing him on a Law & Order episode. Desperate to know the man before he dies for real, Peter and Kyle go on a road trip to connect with their long-lost father. Along their journey, the brothers meet several potential father figures with wildly different personalities.
The House Of Yes (1997)
For a darkly humorous tale of fraternal siblings, look no further than the 1997 indie comedy The House of Yes. Adapted by writer/director Mark Waters from the Wendy MacLeod play, the film stars Parker Posey and Josh Hamilton as two estranged twins with a dark past.
Posey plays a mentally unbalanced woman convinced she is Jackie Kennedy. As Jackie-O eagerly awaits the arrival of her twin brother Marty on Thanksgiving, she becomes irate when he arrives with his new fiancee Lesly (Tori Spelling). Jackie-O's torrid obsession with her brother and the ire she feels toward Lesly culminates in a wickedly hilarious finale.
Stuck On You (2005)
In a tale that celebrates brotherly love as well as individualism, the Farrelly Brothers' 2003 comedy Stuck On You is a big broad comedy with heart. The film stars Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as conjoined twins desperate to find their own paths in life.
Unable to separate due to their shared liver, Bob (Damon) and Walt (Kinnear) share a happy life of codependency. However, when Walt pursues his dreams as an actor, Walt's timid demeanor thwarts their advancement. Things are further complicated when Cher hires Walt as a costar in order to sabotage her unwanted TV show.
Big Business (1988)
Dwarfed by the massive hit Twins, Big Business is another 1988 comedy featuring actors playing identical siblings born on the same day. This time, however, Bette Middler and Lily Tomlin play not one but two sets of twin sisters.
Set in the 1940s, the film follows two pairs of identical twins born on the same evening in one small-town hospital. An exhausted nurse accidentally mixes the twins up, sending one set to a poor family and the other to a wealthy family. Forty years later, the four crossmatched women encounter one another when a local business staple in town goes under.
The Skeleton Twins (2014)
SNL alums Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig give two of their best performances in The Skeleton Twins, an uplifting tale of estranged twin siblings reuniting and reconnecting after narrowly avoiding suicide on the same day.
Upon deciding not to take their own life, Maggie and Milo return to their hometown, where they experience a nostalgic sense of joy together. As the two catch up and fill in their past, Maggie and Milo begin healing each other's inner-demons by spending more time together and discussing their issues.
Dave (1993)
While Ivan Reitman's presidential comedy Dave doesn't feature twin siblings per se, it does feature an identical doppelganger in much the same way as Switched Again does. It's also directed by the man who gave the world Twins.
When the coldhearted U.S. President Bill Mitchell (Kevin Kline) suffers a stroke, his much warmer and gentile lookalike Dave Kovic is asked to temporarily take his place. But when Dave's policies begin to help the country more than Bill's, he is soon asked to stay longer than intended, especially when he begins to fall for the FLOTUS (Sigourney Weaver).
The Parent Trap (1998)
Nancy Meyer's remake of the classic 1961 family comedy The Parent Trap stars 11-year-old Lindsay Lohan as adorable twin sisters who concoct a brilliant scheme to rekindle the romance of their divorced parents.
Annie and Hallie are identical twin sisters unaware of each other's existence. Annie lives with her mother Elizabeth in England and Hallie lives with her father Nick in California. When the sisters cross paths by chance at a summer camp, they sneakily plot a way to romantically reunite their estranged parents in some of the most charming ways imaginable.
Twins (1988)
Ivan Reitman's pairing of Lilliputian Danny DeVito with gargantuan Arnold Schwarzenegger was hysterical enough to make Twins the fifth highest-grossing film of 1988.
Separated at birth by an evil doctor, sophisticated and good-hearted Julius (Schwarzenegger) travels across the world to meet his biological fraternal twin brother, Vincent, a crass criminal who cannot believe the two are related. When Jules proves they're twins, they set out to find their long-lost mother while fending off two mafiosos and a hitman.
Leaves Of Grass (2009)
Edward Norton gives one of the most commanding turns of his career as wildly disparate twin brothers who reunite under inauspicious circumstances in Leaves of Grass.
Written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson, the film stars Norton as Billy and Brady Kincaid. Billy is an uptight Ivy League professor while Brady is a homespun hillbilly who grows vast amounts of marijuana. When Brady fakes his own death to get Bill to return to their home in Oklahoma, a wacky criminal plot unfolds as the two estranged brothers reconnect.
Adaptation (2002)
Spike Jonze's Adaptation is bound to be the most hilariously original movie about twins one can find. Written by Charlie Kaufman, Nicolas Cage plays the author and his fictitious twin brother who steals his literary thunder when adapting a book called The Orchid Thief.
When given the assignment, Charlie instantly hits a wall of writer's block. Charlie's twin brother Donald arrives and instantly has much better success in his attempt to pen a speculative screenplay for a horror movie. This further drives Charlie down a hole of despair and self-loathing until art begins to imitate life.