I was not expecting to like this show very much, but it literally blew me away. This child actor who plays Sebastian is phenomenal, and absolutely adorable. At his age, his acting skills just blew me away. Jennifer Aniston plays her usual quirky self, but she was really great, and very classy. Jason Bateman was fantastic, and I loved everything about his character. This movie made me laugh and cry. The bond between Bateman and Sebastian was beautiful. Every actor in this movie was great, including Juliette Lewis and Jeff Goldblum, who co-star. Trust me, you will enjoy this movie, even if you don't normally watch these types of movies.

yet another attempt in what seems like a recent (i.e. over the past 10 years or so) relentless trend trying to placate, pacify and assure Mr. Average (& in the audience!) Dude that he CAN Have It All, just by Being Himself - as personified by the main character's pathetic excuse for a modern man (played by Jason Bateman - himself an average & average looking actor); when Oh When will this trend run its course, PLEASE?!? Because it's simply ludicrous & borderline insulting to an audience to show some Story about how an urban mediocre modern man (written deliberately in lower casing, please-to- note!) eventually and with an absolute minimum of effort gets a wife as depicted by Jennifer Aniston, i.e. fantastic looking (replete with golden tan despite living & working in NYC), well-groomed, smart, sweet-natured, yet somehow with a great/dream job which ALSO pulls down a well-above average salary! PLUS this lucky dude gets to miss out on all the awkwardly tricky becoming-a-father stuff, e.g. a pregnant mate going through mood and body swings, post-natally disinterested in sex, years of changing diapers, months of sleepless nights due to a screaming and/or teething baby, 'terrible toddler' tantrums, etc! HOW lucky is HE?! WHAT exactly did this amazing (apparently/evidently!) tho' average dude DO to deserve or just plain GET such ABOVE- average Good Fortune? Errr…exactly NOTHING. Nope. Nada/Nichts/Niente; he just bungled along in his boring sweaters and pessimistic (which predictably, he calls 'realistic') 'tudes & views, marginally amusing and somewhat smart, holding down a good job where his significantly older, more charismatic, more confident and/or worldly buddy uselessly counsels him - because Mediocre Man (ok so we'll allow an upper case when paired with the former since it now fits!) is impervious to changing his way of Being, because (presumably) he has some stubborn sense (judging by the dull narrative over the whole movie) that SOMEHOW, Things Will Go HIS Way, if he just sticks to being himself long enough… !?! There are no breakthroughs of insight, no therapy (for his abandonment issues - which surely would've been re-triggered when the (undeclared) Love of his Life leaves NYC for her native Minnesota?), precious little character development beyond an upgrade in wardrobe (from sweaters to natty shirts & jackets) and hesitant stepping/dragging into latently desired fatherhood - as would surely ANY guy in his 30s, in love with the mother and besieged with the attentions of an adorable 5 (nearly 6!) year old boy who so evidently resembles himself WOULD (@ any rate, I'd defy almost any guy NOT to respond/develop such feelings under such circumstances, so there's nothing special about Mr. Average doing so!). Somehow - because Someone Up There Loves him?! (unspecified; this is NOT a movie about Faith, only dogged faith in Self, for no special reason) - without being especially attractive, charismatic, charming, witty, smart, energetic, forthcoming or overtly loving, and despite being emotionally reserved/intimacy-inaccessible, reticent in actions, deeds & words, and repeatedly missing out on every single God-given opportunity to declare his love for this gorgeous catch-of-a-future-wife woman, and ruining her chance with another eligible, exciting, energetic, great-looking and openly loving man who seems to excel at several things (notably, a Carpe Diem 'tude!) - unlike him - in an outrageously rude, selfish and completely inconsiderate and long overdue outburst of self- expressing during an important gathering/party of her friends and future family and in front of said adorable child whom he accidentally fathered, who has been practically begging for him to BE his Dad, but whom he has thus far entirely denied that explanation & reassurance due to his own inexplicable & inexcusable timidity, he IS excused (eventually) - without offered apology, apparently!?! - and skips even the most basic bare-bones effort of declaration of his feelings, proposal of marriage, offering of a ring - in short, ANY situation which risks rejection - which is all part of what makes a man & defines ANY one's character, man or woman - and by a modicum of dependability (as a friend) plus sheer fantastic luck likewise entirely inexplicable, leaves ALL the proactive Doing to the woman…when in real life she would be (rightly!) seething with resentment, sense of rejection, unappreciation, and - last but not least! - anger over having been duped! It's absurd, ridiculous, and offensive to expect us to believe such scenarios are likely in life, and a subtle endorsement of everything which is wrong with modern western urban men who wimp their way through every situation and relationship while women in the modern urban West struggle to straddle some unspecified and unstraddalable(!) gap between being both a woman AND a man…because modern men don't/won't do the work of BEING Men, and want their female mates to figure it all out for them…while grumbling about being emasculated by women who want It All: Yeuch! A firm thumbs down all around except for the adorable child who sadly still has no sufficient role model for manhood, and is well on track for roundly resenting his too-capable mother for 'smothering' him, i.e. for being significantly and obviously superior to his father from almost every standpoint! Roll on the 22nd century and robots mates/men and basting sticks & anonymous semen & artificial insemination all around! Surely no worse a travesty than what was represented here in 21st century's mutual mates of flesh & blood..? !

Even though I'm a guy, I'm not immune to the odd romantic comedy - if it's got something decent to offer.Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman are both likable leads who have a decent pedigree of humorous films on their C.V.s, so I thought, 'Why not?' Yes, they're good and yes, they have reasonable charisma throughout the film and yes at the end of the ninety minutes you do feel reasonably warm and fuzzy inside. The only thing I found was that there weren't that many laughs along the way. There was a fair amount of romance and some character development, plus adequate dilemmas for them to strive through - I just thought that it would be funnier. Maybe it's my sense of humour, but I just didn't find it funny.That's not to say I didn't enjoy it. The best character bond was actually between Jason Bateman and the young boy 'Sebastian' - the element that made the film worth watching.A worthwhile way to kill an hour and a half - not so much a 'Rom Com' as a 'Rom Drama' in my opinion.

The movie is very very slow paced. DIALOGUES: The whole movie is jam-packed with the following kinds of dialogs:"I.. uh.. I..I..I-I...uh...I just wanted to say something" (Really you ducking dork? It took you so much time just to say that much finally?)"You...uh..uh... you...uh... I've seen.. uh.. I've felt... that...uh.. in the last few days.. uh.. in the last one month actually... uh... ever since I'm back... uh.. I've seen you that...uh... I've felt this energy... uh.. with you... uh... with us.. uh... right?.... uh? (silence) right?... (silence)... uh?... oh my god!!""I...uh.. think... that'll be great! Yeah!!... that'll be great! that'll be great! that'll be great!! Yeah!... uh-huh""I...uh.... I'm really sorry... that...uh....I think...uh.. that....uh"Well how did it feel to read the above dialogs? Now imagine going through that repeatedly with NO plot progress for 90 minutes. (In a tone like I'm doubting that I'm actually speaking) How...uh... how.. uh... how would that... uh... feel?Plot line: The name of the movie is "The Switch" and the guy doesn't come to know about his own switch until 50-60% of the movie. There is no real plot. I can summarize the whole plot in 2-3 lines max but it's all dragged out over this entire stretch.CHARACTERS: The characters act very cautious about everything. If they're saying something it's very very slow and it's like they're slowly treading poisonous waters. What the duck! They're not talking to Aliens that they all need to calculate every word! They're talking to other ducking human beings! Haven't they done that already for so many years?Jeniffer Aniston is in a a particularly bitchy role. Throughout the movie she's constantly complaining, reacting, being abusive, demanding, stubborn.The characters all have a weird communication between them all. They try to say something but instead keep dragging it out endlessly filled with pointless sentences here and there. It's like everyone's speaking a different language and trying to communicate.COMEDY: There is NO comedy in this movie. ZERO. All the dialogs are serious. The scenes are silent with no background score. The characters don't laugh. They're all serious and angry the entire time.