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2.5/4
Sweet and Funny!
MovieAddict - wrote on 03/17/2012
Kassie (Jennifer Aniston) and Wally (Jason Bateman) play long-time best friends who don't realize they are right for each other. When our heroine hears her biological alarm clock ringing she opts for artificial insemination because she is sick and tired of waiting for the right guy to show up. She finds a willing sperm donor Roland (Patrick Wilson) and even throws a party on the night she's to be knocked up. Wally shows up at the party, accidentally “hijacks” the donated sperm and replaces it his own but is too drunk to remember doing so. Kassie moves to Minnesota to raise her son, Sebastian (Thomas Robinson), but returns to New York seven years later and back into Wally life. Wally begins to see striking similarities between him and Sebastian and he begins to wonder if he could …
Rating of
2.5/4
Not Bad, But Not Great
MovieMike - wrote on 12/22/2011
Single, 40-year-old, Kassie Larson (Jennifer Aniston) has a biological clock that is not just ticking, but screaming for her to conceive before it’s too late. When she shares her artificial insemination plan with her one-time romantic interest and best friend, Wally Mars (Jason Bateman), his misgivings get the better of him. What follows is a hilarious and sometimes touching series of events as Wally confirms and reconciles the fact that Kassie’s (now) 6-year-old son is actually his.
Co-directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck (both previously did ‘Blades Of Glory’), ‘The Switch’ manages to cram a lot into its hour and forty minutes of run time. There wasn’t a moment where the movie seemed to drag, as each scene was well paced and pertinent to the overall story. …
