The Switch (2010)
The best Jennifer Aniston movie in ages is actually a star vehicle for Jason Bateman. And Anistons work opposite the screens premiere mild-mannered funnyman shows her at her most engaged and pitch perfect.The Switch, which lost its more amusing, more telling title The Baster, is a romantic comedy about artificial insemination. Aniston plays Kassie, a TV producer who isnt interested in going the Knocked-Up TV producer path to pregnancy. She has her own Back-Up Plan, to go sperm shopping and make her own baby, since all her relationships have a built -in expiration date.
Save for one. Wally (Bateman) is her neurotic, honest-to-a-fault equities analyst BFF whom she packed off to the friend zone years ago. Wally is the first person she tells her plan to. Hes against it. But since he has a gift for not being able to say what you need to say when you need to say it, he cant confess his true feelings.On a street corner, a homeless guy with Tourettes has Wallys number.
Beady-eyed little man-boy!
This film from the team that gave us Blades of Glory, Will Speck and Josh Gordon, is a surprisingly sober-eyed romantic comedy with just a hint of the silly. Love doesnt let you live in a pop song, Wally narrates. Its complicated.Especially if the woman you crush on picks a Viking (Patrick Wilson) to be her sperm donor. Especially if you get drunk at her sperm donor party (Hey, its New York. Parties happen.) and switch the samples. Especially if you forget that night, she moves away, comes back seven years later with a sensitive, neurotic little boy who has a lot of your mannerisms, traits and peccadilloes.
The Switch is straight formula comedy, but the formula is pretty well-executed this time out. Her obligatory wacky gal pal? Juliette Lewis, sharp and biting. His pal confessor? Jeff Goldblum, doing that beautiful, bug-eyed word jazz that nobody does as well.Youve gotta hide the crazy, at least through the appetizers!Those two pair up so well its as if Bateman, doing his trademark snarky passive aggressive patter, is studying at the feet of the master...
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