Thin-ice romantic comedy tolerable only insofar as you can tolerate the greased wheels of contrivance as a source of entertainment in itself: the male BFF, strictly platonic but wanting more, of a would-be single mother swaps his sperm for that of her chosen donor, a blond Adonis who teaches Feminist Literature at Columbia University. You have to admire it on some level and to some degree. Not least for sustaining a fluffiness that won’t overstress the thin ice. Jennifer Aniston, looking a bit facelifty, a bit packed and pursed, inhabits her customary realm well above comic competence, a shade below bona fide charm. But she, for all that, resignedly plays second fiddle to a blossoming Jason Bateman, dry in addition to light as the neurotic, pessimistic, hypochondriacal Gloomy Gus, a romantic antihero, who passes along his entire mental complex, undiluted, to a sullen little son. With Patrick Wilson, Juliette Lewis, Jeff Goldblum, and Thomas Robinson; directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck. (2010) — Duncan Shepherd
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