A body-swap comedy, when it’s really cooking, is built on a device that won’t quit. An actor, generally an adult, pretends to be inhabited by someone totally different from him or herself (generally a kid). The comedy that emerges is trip-wired with slapstick psychology — you feel like you’re looking at an actor but can just about see the person hidden inside. In “Big,” the “Citizen Kane” of the genre, Tom Hanks didn’t just mimic the gestures and wide-eyed aura of an eager 13-year-old; he seemed to be entering the kid’s soul, a feat of acting at once hilarious and enchanting. Jennifer Garner did much the same thing in
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