Kassie is a smart, fun-loving single woman who, despite her slightly neurotic best friend Wally's objections, decides it's time to have a baby--even if it means doing it by herself... with a little help from a charming sperm donor. But, unbeknownst to her, Kassie's plans go awry because of a last-minute switch that isn't discovered until seven years later when Wally finally gets acquainted with Kassie's precocious -- though slightly neurotic -- son.

I actually went into the Switch with very high hopes and an open mind as it looked like a film that had promise and despite its genre of the romantic comedy it was tied to it looked like it actually might be worth the viewing. I don’t want to say I was completely wrong or completely let down by the film but none of that promise was really met and all my high hopes were drowned in a movie that couldn’t muster much to interest me. The Switch simply put was boring, very boring as nothing really happens that you couldn’t see coming and there is nothing much there to interest you. Despite a few funny moments when Jason Bateman gets drunk and does the unthinkable and hijacks Aniston pregnancy the movie is a snore fest.

I do give the movie credit as unlike many other “Chick Flicks” the film does actually try and does make an effort to me more than your typical clichéd filled film that only the female genre would appreciate. So this effort basically keeps the movie from being utterly horrible and makes it somewhat watchable even of the movie is so very boring at times. The problem with the film and what it boils down to is the film is supposed to be a romantic comedy and it fails pretty much on both ends, the romantic part and the comedy part. With the exception of a few funny scenes the movie is not going to make you laugh very hard and Aniston and Bateman really never have any chemistry in the movie to sell it as a romance either.

What the Switch becomes at times is a look into the life of a neurotic played by Bateman and played very well at that. He does pull of all the neurosis and nuttiness that makes a good character and the film could have been a good character movie but that is not what it was shooting for it was instead trying to be a romantic comedy and character piece movies only really work as dramas anyways.

I like Jason Bateman he is a very good modern day everyman kind of actor and he does very well in the Switch. He is pretty much the lone saving grace of the movie and gives it any comedy and laughter although very nil but still he injects some into the movie. Jennifer Aniston once again plays the sweet girl next door role harking all the way back to her Friends days and she honestly still plays it very well even if we as an audience have grown weary and tired of it. She just doesn’t make a good female lead anymore and it would be a lot more fun to see her try and venture out and do something different. The Switch is a movie if you are remotely interested in it that you should wait for video as its not worth the ticket price.

Grade: C-