Despite the movie’s ad campaign, The Switch isn’t Jennifer Aniston’s movie, and even she seems to know it. This picture belongs to Jason Bateman, who, after years of playing the second or third banana (and plenty of times being the best thing in a given film), finally gets to show off his considerable gifts as the co-lead in a mainstream comedy. To watch him in The Switch, standing at the stove making pancakes (a lice-proof plastic shower cap pulled over his hair — don’t ask), or bringing the grace of a Gene Kelly routine to a bit in which, hung over, he barfs into an office waste-can, is to see a particular kind of comic intuition at work. For Bateman, there’s no distinction to be made between high and low comedy — he brings neurotic elegance to everything he does.
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REVIEW: Jason Bateman Comes Into His Own in The Switch
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