Vintage

What a crappy movie.  I rented Switch through the local grocery store RedBox dispenser and having watching it, I wish I could have smashed open that RedBox, jammed this trite rom-com back into the RedBox's video intestines and grabbed my regurgitated dollar back from its innards.  Okay, it wasn't that bad, but from the stand point of rom-coms that are somewhat cool for dudes to watch, it sucked a fat one.

For one thing, the plot is preposterous.  Jennifer Aniston is a chick that wants a baby so bad, she has an insemination party, where some donner dude, Roland, proceeds to fill a cup and leave his seed in the bathroom while the party is in full sway.  It was irritating and creepy how casually such a weird event was played off as normal.

Jason Batemen is her asshole close friend Wally Mars.  There is nothing really cool about Wally and I found him a major downer throughout the whole film.  Not that this was Batemen's fault.  His character was obviously written to be an asshole. In any case, Wally is drunk at the seed party and somehow flushes the donor's jizz down the toilette.  In drunken panic, he replaces it with his own. 

The baby is born.  Aniston and her newborn leave town.  Cut to seven years later.  She moves back.  Now the kid, Sebastian, is a little asshole like Batemen's Wally Mars. Well, okay, he was a cute kid.  But, you get the set up.  Batemen has to come clean about what happened. 

The only laugh in the movie can when Juliette Lewis took a look at the kid and said, "Who beat the kid" after he had taken Batemen's advice to act crazy if a bully threatened him at school.   Well, the kid did, and got the snot kicked out of him.  The parents simply dismissed this by the way.  I would be up in arms if this happened to my kid.

Anyway, I like good humor in my rom-coms and most guys will tolerate a a chick flick if it has hot chicks and is funny.  This movie may have the hot chick in Aniston, but in the funny department, it aborted in the first trimester.