Last week I was watching the news and Bill O’Reilly had his panties in a bunch, again. Apparently he was mad at Jennifer Aniston. I thought to myself, what could one of America’s sweethearts do to deserve O’Reily’s hate? The Fox News columnist (that’s right, I said columnist because he voices his opnions, not facts) was mad about Aniston’s new film and how it says that in American women don’t need a man to have a baby. You be the judge.
Jason Bateman is Wally. Wally is a pessimist and a skeptic, who challenges everything his best friend Kassie does. Kassie, played by Aniston, tells Wally she is going to be artificially inseminated with Patrick Wilson’s sperm, and after a drunken accident Wally has to use his own “guys” to replace the ones he just lost. Seven years later he meets Kassie’s son, who just happens to have all his quirky personality traits. Now Wally must decide whether he should tell Kassie the truth about what he did and his feelings for her.
We’ve all seen this movie a thousands of times, but at least the sperm angle is new, right? Bateman plays the kind of character he plays best, the negative party pooper. He’s a leading man we care about, but I prefer to see him step out of his shell with memorable roles like Dodgeball. Jennifer Aniston falls into queue as the lovable girl-next-door who is looking for love in all the wrong places, except right in front of her face. Again, this not really a stretch for her.
The supporting cast is straight out of traditional type casting. Jeff Goldblum pays the same character he was in Nine Months. He is Wally’s friend who has a swinger lifestyle and tries to advise Wally in the ways of love. Meanwhile Juliette Lewis plays what I can only assume is herself as the crazy, female best friend to Kassie. If Woody Harrelson showed up with a gun I think the film might have taken a turn for the interesting.
The only person I felt worked an acting muscle or two was the new comer Thomas Robinson has Sebastian, Kassie and Wally’s child. Robinson was great as the weird kid who could pull off all of the strange things Batman's character encompasses. I’m curious to see how Robinson’s career we will go. Elijah Wood or every other child actor?
So what is Bill O’Reilly upset about? This is a cookie-cutter film about a woman who is tired of waiting for love just so she can have a baby, and her best friend hijacks her pregnancy with his own seed. Does O’Reilly need to waste the precious Fox News time on this? Don’t they have Democrats to attack? This film had some funny moments, like the million others like it, but I for one won’t be spending any more time on this film, that is until the next Jennifer Aniston movie comes out.
Rating: C
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