Matt Brunson has this to say:
THE SWITCH (2010). Deciding that Jeffrey Eugenides' short story would be perfect for expanding into a wacky comedy, this film's creators ran with the premise of Jennifer Aniston as a single woman who badly wants a baby. Aniston's Kassie opts to go the route of a sperm donor, despite the objections of her whiny best friend Wally (Jason Bateman). The donor is a hunky athlete (Patrick Wilson), but through circumstances too mind-numbingly stupid to detail here, a drunken Wally spills the filled baby-batter cup and replaces the lost content with his own seed. Will the dumb-as-a-brick Kassie ever learn that Wally made a switch? And did none of the filmmakers — or the movie's fans — realize that Wally's action of implanting his unwanted sperm into an unwilling woman qualifies as a form of sexual assault/rape? ...
Read the rest here, (under Excalibur and above The Times of Harvey Milk, both worth a read).
2 comments:
You know, I've read Matt Brunson's reviews now and then on Charlotte's Creative Loafing and I always thought he was a witty fellow. I just hope he doesn't sell out now that they gave him another award for his headline writing.
I would reply to your comment, Louis, but I can't be bothered to associate with riffraff.
Yours truly,
Matt Brunson, Esq.
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