The Switch

I did not have high expectations for this one. The premise of this movie sounded really silly, whoops! I switched the donor sperm with mine! ...That's kind of a serious thing - there might be laws against that. And the fact that this movie was taking it lightly wasn't my kind of funny. Plus I am not too fussy on Jennifer Aniston, I know I should be if for no other reason than she got the really short end of the stick with the Brad Pitt thing, but even before all that, she was never my favourite Friend.

You know what you are in for in this Jennifer Aniston rom-com; friend has crush on other friend, friend moves away, when she comes back it's like she never left, friend reveals secret, other friend is mad, but two scenes later she forgives him and they all lived happily ever after. The first half hour was barely bare able, it just felt like they were trying to cram in as much back info and character info as possible, and if any of it happens to be funny then bonus. But once that kid came into the picture everything changed, he was just so darn cute and his neurosis was hilarious. The chemistry between him and Jason Bateman was wonderful (the same can't be said for the chemistry between Bateman and Aniston, but I guess you can't have it all). And as an added bonus, Jeff Goldblum was in this one, and much more witty than he was in Morning Glory. Also note the love interest in this film was the same as the one in Morning Glory, I had never heard of him before. I looked it up, his name is Patrick Wilson, he hasn't been in much else special.

So a comedy I didn't expect much out of had a little ray of sunshine that made it mostly worth it.

Watch it for the hilarity of the kid if for nothing else.