As I have mentioned quite a lot in the recent past, I am not too impressed with the new releases that Netflix or just Hollywood in general have been making in the past few years. It seems that profits over substance (which is understandable) is the name of the game and good stories are overlooked for the sake of making massive budget films mostly about yet another superhero.
The Switch certainly isn't a legendary film by any means but it is an unusual take on romantic comedies and since I like Jason Bateman so much, I was always going to watch it.
I don't know whose idea it was for that terrible movie poster but once you know the story there probably isn't much way to represent the story on a poster anyway.
It is considered a Romantic Comedy, as you would expect with anything that Jennifer Aniston is in (I don't think she has done anything other than that) but this one doesn't actually have a tremendous amount of comedy moments. It is more like a drama with the occasional joke.
The story is that Kassie and Wally are best friends. They tried dating in the past but for some reason the romantic side of things didn't pan out and now they are just BFF's. This is completely impractical and I don't know anyone that this has actually happened to. One of my best friends in high school was a girl but that was only because I friend zoned myself early on in the game. I not-so-secretly wanted her the entire time. But Wally genuinely is not interested in Kassie. So the film starts out in a ridiculous manner because J. Aniston is hot AF and anyone who go along with her as well as Wally does would definitely be interested in her.
Kassie explain to Wally that she wants to have a baby but doesn't have a boyfriend. Her time clock is running out according to her doctor, so she decides to get knocked up the scientific way but has a party to celebrate the collection of her chosen donor's seed (gross). But a super drunk Wally is at this party and while in the bathroom he spots the container of the donor product and accidentally spills it in the sink in a crazy and hard-to-watch sequence. He then replaces it with his own.
He was blackout drunk and doesn't remember doing any of this but turns up at a friend's house and kind of babbles on about what he did. The friend can't make heads or tails of it either.
Kassie moves away to raise her child outside of NYC and doesn't return for 7 years. When she does, Wally starts to notice some things about Sebastian, her 6 year old son
[src](https://d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net/wp/wp-content/images/zz6da4108d.jpg)It doesn't take terribly long for Wally to start to notice that the kid and he share a lot of common traits and the donor (as far as any of them know at this point) doesn't have any of these features. It takes a while but Wally eventually figures out that he actually is the father of Sebastian and doesn't know how to break it to Kassie.
It doesn't help that the actual birth father is kind of a dick / douche and he and Kassie start dating right around the time that Wally is realizing that he does have feelings for Kassie and that he is the father of Seb.
I wouldn't say that this movie is really terribly different from the predictable stories that are so common in really every romantic comedy and the entertainment value relies very heavily on Bateman's performance since (sorry about this) but Aniston is really just "Rachel from Friends" no matter what she is in.
Should you watch it?
Unless you are a huge fan of Bateman, which I am, I would say probably not. Some of the interactions are endearing between Wally and Sebastian, but those touching moments are very few. The story carries on exactly as you would expect and it isn't terribly funny. Therefore, only Jason Bateman fans need apply.
