Quick Review: The Switch

How fun would it have been if "The Switch" had its original title, "The Baster," and at the same time perhaps had a little more subversiveness that such a title would indicate? A single New York City woman named Kassie (Jennifer Aniston) decides she wants to have a baby and hires a married man in need of funds (Patrick Wilson) to be the sperm donor, to the consternation of her best friend Wally (Jason Bateman), who loves her but hasn't told her because she put him in the "friend zone." Instead of doing it properly, Kassie holds an "insemination party," a drunken Wally stumbles into a bathroom and finds the cup with the magic material, and accidentally spills it. He then replaces it, with the help of Diane Sawyer.

(A picture of Diane in a magazine, of course. You perverts.)

Cut to seven years later, and Kassie and her son Sebastian move back to New York, she and Wally reconnect, and Wally begins to notice a lot of similarities between himself and Sebastian. Wally, you see, didn't remember anything about the night of the insemination party because he was so drunk. Complicating things is that Kassie also reconnects with Roland the sperm donor, who is now divorced. It's some fairly standard stuff, but the bond that forms between Wally and Sebastian is really cute. It's the most enjoyable part of the movie.

By the way, what is it with movies about single women wanting babies? There was "Baby Mama" with Tina Fey a couple of years ago and "The Back-Up Plan" earlier this year. Are there others I'm not remembering? And if this trend continues, will the spoofers responsible for "Date Movie," "Vampires Suck," etc. have another topic to play with? My grade: B-minus.