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THE SWITCH <\/em><\/strong>stars Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman .<\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n By SANDRA OLMSTED<\/strong><\/p>\n In the The Switch<\/em>, which is more worth seeing for the acting than the predictable, more-sweet-than-funny story, Jennifer Aniston (The Bounty Hunter<\/em>) imbues Kassie with her mature, everywoman charm which adds much to the film.\u00a0 However, since the first images are of Jason Bateman (Couples Retreat<\/em>), the audience knows it is not Aniston\u2019s character, but Bateman\u2019s, which is central to the story.<\/p>\n Seeming to have come into his own as a leading man, Bateman rises to the occasion and very much carries the film as Wally Mars, a milquetoast Wall Street analyst whom Kassie relegated to \u201cthe friendship zone\u201d seven years ago.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Wally really loves Kassie, but fears losing her friendship if he confesses his true feelings.\u00a0 While Bateman and Aniston have great chemistry as friends, their characters never have a romantic spark that would make it a great romance.<\/p>\n When Kassie announces that she has decided to have a baby on her own because her biological clock is running down, Wally eagerly volunteers his \u201cingredients,\u201d which is one of the\u00a0 euphemisms which screenwriter Allan Loeb (Streak<\/em>) uses to refer to the donated sperm.\u00a0 Kassie, however, has no interest in Wally\u2019s \u201ccontribution\u201d and hires Roland (Patrick Wilson, The A-Team<\/em>), a studly, but broke and married, associate professor of feminist literature to be her donor.<\/p>\n Kassie\u2019s best friend, Debbie (Juliette Lewis, Sympathy for Delicious<\/em>), who is delightfully shrill and tasteless as on only Lewis can be, throws Kassie an insemination party, and Kassie insists that Wally attend the party to show his support of her decision because they are \u201cbest friends.\u201d\u00a0 Wally \u201cwallys it up,\u201d which is how his friends euphemistically refer to the way only Wally can screw things up:\u00a0 He gets too drunk and accepts a prescription medication from Debbie.\u00a0 Before long, he\u2019s spilled Roland\u2019s seed and, in a moment of as close to wild abandonment as he has ever gotten, Wally replaces Roland\u2019s \u201cingredients\u201d with his own.\u00a0 The booze and drug block most memory of the switch.\u00a0 However, in his drunk stupor, Wally confesses his switch to his buddy Leonard, played expertly by Jeff Goldblum (Adam Resurrected<\/em>); unfortunately, Wally\u2019s wild ramblings make little sense at the time to Leonard.<\/p>\n As soon as Kassie is pregnant, she moves back home to Minnesota, and Wally continues to live his boring, lonely life.\u00a0 Then seven years later, Kassie returns to New York with the six-year-old Sebastian (Thomas Robinson, TV\u2019s Heroes<\/em>) in tow.\u00a0 Sebastian, a moody, neurotic, hypochondriacal chip off of Wally\u2019s block, couldn\u2019t possibly be Roland\u2019s offspring, but Kassie refuses to see it and begins a relationship with the recently divorced Roland.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Wally begins to remember that he \u201chijacked her pregnancy\u201d during several deliciously amusing conversations with Leonard.\u00a0 Now Wally must deal with another clock ticking towards the eleventh hour as Roland confides to Wally that he plans to propose to Kassie.<\/p>\n At this point the film begins to drag because Kassie always prevents Wally from getting a word in edgewise and assumes she knows what Wally is going to say; however, since it is a romantic fantasy, Wally telling Kassie the truth clearly leads to Wally getting his dream girl.\u00a0 The directing team of Josh Gordon and Will Speck (Blades of Glory<\/em>) get kudos for casting fine actors and getting stellar performances on screen, but the film is flawed because it lacks much suspense about the ending.<\/p>\n A Miramax Films release, The Switch<\/em> is a loose adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides\u2019 1996 story “Baster,” which was originally published in The New Yorker<\/em>. The film runs 101 minutes and is rated PG-13 for mature thematic content, sexual material including dialogue, some nudity, drug use and language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE SWITCH stars Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman . 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