The Switch

I’ll admit that recently there have been a spate of romcom duds, and bad scripts have resulted in disappointing black marks against some of our favourite actors. Like Jennifer Aniston. Ok, so she is the romcom queen, but Bounty Hunter? And Management? What was she thinking?

Luckily here Jen’s been partnered with the awesome Jason Bateman, who plays the platonic friend who’s secretly in love with the leading lady. When Kassie (Aniston) tells Wally (Bateman) that she’s going to be artificially sperminated, he’s thrown. He gets drunk. He switches the donor’s sperm with his own. Seven years later, when Kassie moves back to town with her son, it becomes hard to ignore that the kid is Wally’s mini-me. What’s a secret sperm donor to do?

This is definitely one of the funnier and more endearing romcoms of the year, and for that I give it a double thumbs up.

Rating: 4/5