The Switch (2010– 101 mins) J. Aniston, J. Bateman

In The Switch we get the usual platonic friends whom one of them really likes the other more then the other might. We get the usual guy is really in love with his female best friend. It kinda goes back to what Harry (Billy Crystal) famously said, “Women have male friends, guys have women we haven’t slept with yet.” The rub here is that Anison’s Kassie, is feeling like she won’t ever find “Mr. Right” (I’m right over here Jennifer BTW), so she decides to get artificially inseminated. In a drunken fiasco Bateman’s Wally accidentally washes the donor’s sperm down the sink and then replaces the sample with his own. Upon meeting up with Kassie a number of years later he notices some similarities with her son and himself. (No spoilers here you can get all of this info from the trailer)

It’s hard to describe this movie fully. It’s billed as a romance/comedy/drama which is a hard thing to really pull off well. This movie doesn’t pull it off either. I think they try and throw 3 labels on it b/c it’s not good at any one of them. The Switch is more of a feel good-ish drama with a few laughs and romance elements to it. The film suffers for a few reasons. First Wally is annoying as hell. Sure, it’s his character in a way, and we try and like him and get there at times, but then he falls back into the annoying as hell place. Second we get another one of my pt peeves in the other object of Kassie’s affection not being a bad person. The movie wants to get us to root for Wally over the other man,Roland (Patrick Wilson) but does so hoping we will just because it says so. He’s not a jerk to the son, or to Kassie so they just want us to say hey Bateman is the star so like him! It also starts off VERRRYY SSSSLLLLOOOOWWWW. The movie doesn’t start to get interesting until Kassie comes back and has a kid and it takes a bit to get there. I will say that Thomas Robinson who plays Aniston’s son Sebastian is cute and excellent in the role, and almost makes the movie worth watching for himself. Almost. I can’t say it’s bad b/c it is slightly enjoyable but I am sure I would have gotten a bit bored if I wasn’t at work while watching it.

Verdict—> You will feel a bit good at the end b/c it’s a decent feel good movie but you will come away wanting more out of this movie. I can’t say it’s a MUST see at all, in fact it’s quite dismiss-able, but if there is nothing you feel like seeing and like Aniston and Bateman you might enjoy it. It left something to be desired after I saw it. A feel good romantic/comedy/drama which isn’t all that funny and isn’t overly dramatic.

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