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The Switch starring Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston & Patrick Wilson

Posted on August 17, 2011 Written by ripitup

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The Switch starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum & Juliettte Lewis
The Switch starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum & Juliettte Lewis.

 

Wally (Jason Bateman) doesn’t have much in his life apart from his career, and his best friend Kassie (Jennifer Aniston). He is pretty hopeless in the romance department, but he doesn’t really get depressed over his life until Kassie drops a bombshell on him: She wants a baby now and she is determined that the father will be someone she won’t have to deal with, despite Wally’s oppositions.

Wally can’t change her mind, and at a drunken moment, he “loses” the cute donor Roland (Patrick Wilson)’s sperm. So he replaces it with his own…And he doesn’t remember this the next day.

He gets another bombshell when Kassie announces that she is pregnant, and she is moving to another state to be with her parents.

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7 years later, Kassie moves back to New York with her 7 year old son Sebastian (Thomas Robinson), and she can’t wait for Wally and her kid to bond. Wally is at first intimated with extremely strange and neurotic boy, but then he realizes that they have a lot in common and they’ve started to get along together. Unfortunately for him and Wally, Roland is back in the picture and ready to court Kassie, and hang out with who he believes to be his son…

It doesn’t help matters that Wally has remembered what he might have done all those years ago, and that Kassie might be the one. Now how do you give your best friend two earth-shattering news? And not lose her, and your kid, in the process?

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The Switch is a fun, albeit slow at times, drama/comedy. It is not a romantic comedy in the traditional sense. Sure, the ending is blindingly obvious even from the trailer. But it is not the crazy comedy it was advertised to be, or the romantic comedy with the focus on Jennifer Aniston.

It is more about Wally, and then Wally and Sebastian. It’s Wally’s emotional and hilarious journey as he realizes a lot of things about life, being a parent, being a friend and well…the romantic guy who’d just have to speak up with the worst timing in the world.

Jennifer Aniston haters can relax as Jason Bateman is the focus of the film. I really like Aniston, but this is a Bateman flick. His on-screen relationship with Thomas Robinson is funny, touching, awkward and cute all at the same time. Sure, Bateman makes us laugh and grin, but most of the time he makes us feel emotional. Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum and Juliette Lewis hang around for comedic relief, as Aniston serves as the female romantic lead.

No, it is not that funny, and it is not even very romantic. But it is very sweet, sometimes quirky and enjoyable.

Also on Jennifer Aniston:

Jennifer Aniston Trivia: 22 Facts About The World’s Most Popular Friend Jennifer Aniston

The Bounty Hunter

Love Happens

Marley and Me

He’s Just Not That Into You

Hollywood Stars in Friends

Derailed

Also on Patrk Wilson

Morning Glory starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton & Patrick Wilson

The A-Team starring Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson, Sharlto Copley & Quinton Rampage Jackson

Watchmen starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley and Patrick Wilson

Patrick Wilson Trivia

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Filed Under: Movies and Actors Tagged With: comedy, drama, Jason Bateman, Jeff Goldblum, Jennifer Aniston, Juliette Lewis, movies, Patrick Wilson, romance, the switch, the switch cast, the switch movie, Thomas robinson

No Strings Attached, The Switch and Morning Glory: 3 Romantic Comedies to Anticipate

Posted on November 9, 2010 Written by ripitup

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No Strings Attached starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher

Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher in No Strings Attached
Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher in No Strings Attached

The storyline is obviously ordinary and predictable but if you like the actors, this one seems to be having some nice jokes and it is also refreshing that it is the girl who resists mixing romantic feelings with the sexual ones. Here’s the plot:

Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman are longtime friends and at some point they realize that they are the best candidates for each other when it comes to a non-problematic, non-complicated no strings attached sex. But just like many friends with benefits arrangements in real life and fictional world, things will get complicated. We will just have to see if this one will dare to pull a 500 Days of Summer type of ending…

No Strings Attached Trailer:


[pro-player width=’530′ height=’253′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubfcfs98MBw [/pro-player]

Morning Glory starring Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton, Harrison Ford & Patrick Wilson

Morning Glory starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton and Patrick Wilson. Also featuring Jeff Goldblum
Morning Glory starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton and Patrick Wilson. Also featuring Jeff Goldblum.

Rachel McAdams plays a young and ambitious news producer who is happy to land a job, despite she is warned by her boss (Jeff Goldblum) that she will be underpaid, overworked and will have a really hard time. She is too over-the-moon to turn this opportunity down. The show is hosted by the eccentric Diane Keaton and Rachel’s job certainly doesn’t get any easier when she decides to hire even the more eccentric, veteran host Harrison Ford, who thinks he is just too good for the position. In addition to her ever-challenging job, her romance with a co-worker (Patrick Wilson) might not make her life any easier either.

A sweet comedy with a touch of romance, true-to-life career ups and downs; including a great friendship story….I love the cast and I so can relate to the plot. I’ll be seeing this movie.

Morning Glory Trailer

[pro-player width=’530′ height=’253′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9lWUqraDoU [/pro-player]

The Switch starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Patrick Wilson, Juliette Lewis & Jeff Goldblum

The Switch Movie starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum and Juliette Lewis
The Switch Movie starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum and Juliette Lewis

Whether I will wait for the DVD or just see it at the theaters is irrelevant. I will watch this film. Yes, all Jennifer Aniston-haters, you’re welcome to look down on me for being enthusiastic about her new romcom. But frankly, even though I agree that Jen needs diversity in her career, romcom is a profitable genre, it has a certain audience and a good one can offer a great escapism and there is no reason you can’t enjoy it if you like the actors. And even if you despise Jennifer Aniston, have you seen the rest of the cast?

And I did have a real laugh (during the trailer) at how Jason Bateman ends up making the switch and then forgets about it. Sure, the fact that he had feelings for his friend for 13 years and is only just realizing it goes against all my experience and beliefs about relationships and love, but hey, we watched Friends. We can handle this storyline.

And yes, I wish I could see more of Patrick Wilson and Jeff Goldblum and have loved Juliette Lewis since What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and Cape Fear.

The Switch Trailer

[pro-player width=’530′ height=’253′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEYqgyXyk9A [/pro-player]

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Note: You can watch the trailers on IMDB by clicking on the links below. Just incase youtube videos don’t work for some reason.

IMDB Trailer Links

No Strings Attached

Morning Glory

The Switch

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