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The Switch

A great many movies these days - especially comedies, it seems - think all you need anymore is one film-defining gimmick that’ll take the lead when it comes time to advertising. The rest of the movie can be the same thing we’ve seen before, but the device - the trick - has us think we’re seeing something new. A group of friends awake after a drunken slumber to find one of their own missing. A group of friends slip into a hot tub and transport back to the ‘80s. Dwayne Johnson is, um, The Tooth Fairy. You see?

The Switch is one of those movies, too. This time around we get Jason Bateman playing a guy who’s best friends with Jennifer Aniston and hopes to be more than friends when he switches her sample of insemination sperm with his own. Not too long after, he’s a father and, well, there you go.

The Switch wasn’t that big movie Miramax was probably expecting. It did beat its $19 million budget, but not by much. Just $8 million was had over its opening weekend (even though more than 2,000 engagements were playing it) and final tallies were $27 million in the States and another $20 million overseas.

Disc includes: Deleted scenes, alternate ending, The Switch Conceived Behind-the-Scenes featurettes, bloopers

March 15, 2011

Blu-ray
300
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Unrated)
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Battle of the Warrior
Beautiful Truth
BMX Bandits
Constantine
The Fighter
Gunslinger Girl: Season 1
Gunslinger Girl: Season 2 Il Teatrino
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Hereafter
Heroic Age: The Complete Series
The Losers
A Marine Story
Nature: Extraordinary Birds
Nature: Predators Moment of Impact
Ninja Assassin
Sharktopus
Shoot 'Em Up
The Switch
Watchmen
The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest
WWE: The True Story of Wrestlemania
Yi Yi

DVD
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Unrated)
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Babylon 5: The Movie Collection (Set)
BMX Bandits
The Fighter
Gunslinger Girl: The Complete Series
Hereafter
A Marine Story
Nature: Extraordinary Birds
Neil Young: Like a Rolling Stone
Sharktopus
A Shine of Rainbows
The Switch
Who Do You Think You Are? Season 1
Yi Yi (Criterion Collection)

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