The life of a young handsome guy named Wally, who falls in love with him best friend, Kassie, who gets bored from her failures relationships and decides to have a child by the artificial insemination, the thing that makes his rage, so during the party he changes the sperm donor of himself, has been changed, as the born child was his child.
A misjudged lightness of tone and a predictable structure neuter the neuroticism and strange maliciousness of this Jennifer Aniston/Jason Bateman rom-com.
This might have worked better as a television episode or a short film, but as a feature, it's merely another one of those overly-long films where the audience must wait around in silence for the same conclusion we've seen countless times.
It's not a bad film, really, just sort of average. But Bateman is so good in it -- natural, funny, yet full of real emotion -- that you immediately want to see him again in a better film.
Bateman and Aniston are fine but don't have any real chemistry together, whilst the direction is flat and rather uninteresting. It has the occasional good moment, but "The Switch" fails to push any buttons. Or, indeed, pull any switches.
The comedy itself suffers from awkward scheduling. Though this isn't its only wrinkle.
Slant Magazine
April 01, 2011
Despite a strong cast and technical specs, The Switch remains another easily disposable entertainment built out of the rubble of a promising literary prospect.