April 23rd, 2010 -- Written by Rodney
Thanks for checking out our Back-Up Plan review.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Directed by: Alan Poul
Staring: Jennifer Lopez, Alex OLoughlin
Released: April 23, 2010
THE GENERAL IDEA
After years of dating, Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) has decided waiting for the right one is taking too long. Determined to become a mother, she commits to a plan, makes an appointment and decides to go it alone. That same day, Zoe meets Stan (Alex OLoughlin) a man with real possibilities.
Trying to nurture a budding relationship and hide the early signs of pregnancy becomes a comedy of errors for Zoe and creates confusing signals for Stan.
THE GOOD
Lopez is often very pretty in this movie. She plays awkward and flustered far too well for anyone BUT her to play this role. Its a shame the rest of the movie didn’t cooperate with her.
THE BAD
I liked this movie better when it was called Knocked Up. Honestly, the concept of trying to make a relationship work while dealing with the chaos of unplanned parenthood is not exactly exclusive domain, but I couldn’t stop making the paralells.
And the potty gross-out humour. How many feces jokes can we have? Dog poop, pregnancy poop, swimming in pregnancy poop, dog puke. Honestly. They revolve too much around the crude that other films strive on, but in a Lopez rom-com it just seems so out of place. You expect nice - and its fine to go against what’s expected, but when its done this poorly the shock value is weak an ineffective.
OVERALL
I didn’t laugh at all during this. If a comedy is bad, or weak plot, or bad acting - if it makes you laugh it will get some value. This doesn’t.
This is a series of “oh no - that happened!” moments that just don’t amuse.
I give The Back-up Plan a Lopez pretty 2 out of 10
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this looks so bad, i can see it bombing big time
ya but the picture of the movie poster shows off her amazxing ass!
It’s not even worth wasting good money to see. Dvd worthy at most. She really needs to do some real drama! When she did Selena back in the day, she was almost credible as an actress. J-Lo, it’s time to re-invent yourself!…..And quick!!!
i was really hoping you would have just ripped this movie apart. i saw that you saw it and reviewed it and i was excited to see you tear j-lo up from the floor up, but you let her get away with it. she sucks. her movies suck. i hope that her last movie is el cantante 2.
Sorry to disappoint, but I dont bash on an actress because you don’t like her. Even good personalities have bad films.
For the most part I enjoy Lopez in Rom Coms, but I dont expect much out of them. But even for a JLo romcom, this was bad.
I would only “tear into” a movie if it was so bad that it upset me or offended me. This did neither, it just had no redeeming qualities.
I did rate it a 2. Just sayin.
That’s too bad. Yeah, JLo does so many of these kinds of movies — its just the same thing with a different title. I do like Alex O. He’s the only reason I would bother to see this movie.
J Lopez is the female version of Hugh Grant… one trick pony… yawn. Stupid romantic comidies.