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Alynda Wheat, People: MODERATE (cg) "...logic isn't a priority here, but then, neither is Aniston's barely sketched character." (Read the full review...) 154 words, 08/19/10 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: POOR (cg) "Not a single moment rings true... played in broad, sitcommy fashion, utterly divorced from the way people behave in real life." (Read the full review...) 646 words, 08/19/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "Aniston treads on all-too-familiar ground here... beware of massive plot holes... Still, Bateman's winning comic performance and his endearing rapport with Kassie's son, Sebastian, give a sense of what this film could have been." (Read the full review...) 189 words, 08/19/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a by-the-numbers movie, but the dots that get connected feel fresh.... squeezes fresh laughs out of what is, in essence, a rather startlingly post-Freudian, nature-trumps-nurture view of child development." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 08/27/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: MODERATE (cg) "What almost saves it is the acting. Aniston has charm. And the indispensable Bateman is a gift to comedies on life-support." (Read the full review...) 98 words, 08/20/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: MODERATE (cg) "...the actions, choices and general behavior of the characters are oddly removed from what goes in the real world.... Bateman essentially carries the film, his charm and intelligence intact throughout the predictable fluff." (Read the full review...) 410 words, 08/20/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Although the dramatic elements vary from passable to strong, the comedy is often forced and generic.... the film seems confused about what it wants to do and be..." (Read the full review...) 851 words, 08/18/10
Stephen Holden, New York Times: WEAK "...[a] scatterbrained romantic comedy .... The first third is so bizarre that it leads you to wonder if, through some miraculous lack of oversight, the movie will blaze an unpredictable path. No such luck." (Read the full review...) 723 words, 08/20/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "...hackneyed, bland and dopey with a dollop of outré. It's Judd Apatow lite, Farrelly brothers special blend. Just call it 'When Harry Met Sally and Her Ovum.' " (Read the full review...) 470 words, 08/20/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "More his journey than hers, more satire than slapstick, the film is that rare example of rom-com about men, which turns out to be a nice switch indeed." (Read the full review...) 745 words, 08/20/10 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "...basically, 'About a Boy' for dummies..." (Read the full review...) 510 words, 08/20/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...all over the place, but around the halfway point it starts getting interesting... 'pretty good' puts it ahead of plenty of recent romantic comedies. Puh-LEN-ty." (Read the full review...) 599 words, 08/20/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "Bateman steals the show and Aniston gives her best performance in years... [a] smart, sensitive comedy." (Read the full review...) 313 words, 08/20/10 Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: WEAK (cg) "The opening narration, the bland score, the stock characters, the scenes that feel utterly staged... it's all there, and you've seen it all before." (Read the full review...) 807 words, 08/20/10 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "Kassie barely registers as a character.... Saddled with the responsibility of carrying the film, Bateman acquits himself admirably by playing it straight..." (Read the full review...) 696 words, 08/18/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...makes light of circumstances that could fit a modern definition of sexual assault.... anything that takes your mind off the creepy implications is a decidedly good thing..." (Read the full review...) 704 words, 08/20/10 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "For a few precious scenes, when father and son are alone, the movie is actually amusing, even touching. The rest of the time it's content to stall..." (Read the full review...) 653 words, 08/20/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...built like a romantic comedy, except that there's no romance - and precious little comedy, for that matter." (Read the full review...) 243 words, 08/19/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a warm, quirkily observant film, strengthened by some appealing performances and a low-key, easygoing vibe." (Read the full review...) 435 words, 08/20/10 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "The film's comic-relief duties are expertly handled by Jeff Goldblum and Juliette Lewis, who are straight-out hilarious as the best-friends-of more neurotic, if possible, than the leads." (Read the full review...) 500 words, 08/20/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...not worthy of the human qualities that Aniston brings - her movies rarely are. Nor is it really worthy of Jason Bateman... think of 'The Switch' as a picnic. Aniston and Bateman each bring a rare Bordeaux, and the writers bring Spam on white bread." (Read the full review...) 730 words, 08/20/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the formula is pretty well-executed... The kid (Thomas Robinson) is adorable, the couple well-matched, the supporting players veteran scene-stealers..." (Read the full review...) 503 words, 08/20/10 Tom Horgen, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "If you'll remember (you probably won't), Jennifer Lopez covered similar ground earlier this year in 'The Back-up Plan'.... [but] Aniston and Bateman find a funny chemistry together, and the film's bemusing setup unfolds with wit and charm." (Read the full review...) 312 words, 08/20/10 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...gimmicky and banal.... Only in a screwball comedy would a man this uptight tolerate a woman whose life is as arbitrary as Kassie's." (Read the full review...) 716 words, 08/20/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: MODERATE (cg) "Aniston, playing version 27 of Rachel Green, is kind of an extra in her own film. She lacks presence, motivation, and emotion." (Read the full review...) 353 words, 08/20/10 Ted Fry, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "Aniston and Bateman show glimpses of genuine chemistry, but the general infusion of synthetic emotion is a flavorless concoction in dire need of more basting." (Read the full review...) 349 words, 08/20/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...watchable. But anything more than that is not in its DNA." (Read the full review...) 315 words, 08/20/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...not a bad film, really, just sort of average. But Bateman is so good in it -- natural, funny, yet full of real emotion -- that you immediately want to see him again in a better film." (Read the full review...) 549 words, 08/20/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...slight but pleasurable entertainment... a surprisingly sweet, tender story of a man paralyzed by unrequited love but motivated by parenthood..." (Read the full review...) 481 words, 08/20/10
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "Kassie barely registers as a character.... Saddled with the responsibility of carrying the film, Bateman acquits himself admirably by playing it straight..." (Read the full review...) 696 words, 08/18/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the third sperm-donor comedy this year, and in some ways it's the best. The set-up alone has some of the funniest semen humor since 'There's Something About Mary.' " (Read the full review...) 163 words, 08/19/10 Keith Phipps, AV Club: FAIR (cg) "...two likeable stars, a thin gimmick, and hope that chemistry compensates for a toothless script." (Read the full review...) 354 words, 08/19/10 William Goss, Cinematical: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "The story beats are predictable as all get-out and the laughs are sporadic at best. But that performance by Bateman is enough to take a wacky-creepy premise and elevate into something gentle and sweet..." (Read the full review...) 614 words, 08/20/10 Nick Schager, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a passable character-driven rom-com.... comes closer to capturing a measure of emotional truth than many of its genre brethren." (Read the full review...) 377 words, 08/19/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "...built like a romantic comedy, except that there's no romance - and precious little comedy, for that matter." (Read the full review...) 243 words, 08/19/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "...intended to be cute and charming... it's like an interminable sitcom up on the screen.... nasty and mean, a disgusting movie made all the more disgusting by how flippant it is." (Read the full review...) 863 words, 08/23/10
Stephen Holden, New York Times: WEAK "...[a] scatterbrained romantic comedy .... The first third is so bizarre that it leads you to wonder if, through some miraculous lack of oversight, the movie will blaze an unpredictable path. No such luck." (Read the full review...) 723 words, 08/20/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "More his journey than hers, more satire than slapstick, the film is that rare example of rom-com about men, which turns out to be a nice switch indeed." (Read the full review...) 745 words, 08/20/10 Dana Stevens, Slate: MODERATE "...inside this slick, conventional romantic comedy there's a tender, scruffy little movie struggling to get out.... can't escape the constraints of its own formula: It's a Hollywood rom-com through and through..." (Read the full review...) 765 words, 08/19/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD "...peculiar, and pretty good! ...not one but two of the better marriage-proposal scenes in rom-com history." (Read the full review...) 973 words, 08/19/10
Andrew Barker, Daily Variety: POOR "An unfunny, manipulative romance about two unlikable people and their prop of a son... mangles the premise of its source material ('Baster,' a 1996 short story by Pulitzer-winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides) in ways that ought to baffle viewers..." (Read the full review...) 710 words, 08/16/10 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a friendly, offbeat romantic comedy. Bright spots come in performances by Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman as the leads, with Jeff Goldblum and Juliette Lewis adding sparkle in the roles of best friends." (Read the full review...) 586 words, 08/17/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "More his journey than hers, more satire than slapstick, the film is that rare example of rom-com about men, which turns out to be a nice switch indeed." (Read the full review...) 745 words, 08/20/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: MODERATE (cg) "...a disappointingly formulaic and utterly predictable feature... lacks charm and wit and poignancy..." (Read the full review...) 733 words, 08/19/10 Stephen Holden, New York Times: WEAK "...[a] scatterbrained romantic comedy .... The first third is so bizarre that it leads you to wonder if, through some miraculous lack of oversight, the movie will blaze an unpredictable path. No such luck." (Read the full review...) 723 words, 08/20/10
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