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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
Like you I struggle to find the good points of The Back Up Plan, the only one I can think of is that is only goes on for 1 hour and 36 minutes. Other than that it is a cheest fest haunted by insemination ideas and that awful awful scene where that woman gives birth….. oh my.
okay i would say that if u’re alone on a weekend and have absolutely nothing else to do then perhaps this movie aint so bad………….i loved alex though…………this is the first movie ive seen of him……….i wish to see him in more movies………J-Lo….naaaah…….i guess she should just sing…..cuz thats what she’s good at………has she ever given birth…….cuz the scene where she was giving birth was just so darn fake…….i mean she seemed so much more relaxed then any other woman would at such a point…….
ok sorry, Selena was a fantastic movie… and the one with Matthew Perri or whatever was kind of cute…
She’s better in small doses.
I believe you are confusing Salma Hayek in Matthew Perry’s Fools Rush In.
I dont recall a Perry film with J-Lo in it
We accidentally saw this movie thinking it was something else because the synopsis doesn’t follow what actually happens.
For anyone who knows anything about child birth or is a mother DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE.
It’s grossly offensive with maybe 1 or 2 actual funny bits. It’s more for the 9-12 age range of humor, and certainly Not appropriate for any child to watch. I’m glad the younger crowd in the audience enjoyed it more than we did, but I don’t think our youth should be exposed to this sort of disgusting toilet humour… Even Dude Where’s My Car was funny enough to roll over laughing at it…
The Back Up Plan was not funny at all…
p.s. Just for the record, Heads Up is bad like (like “Heads up! Watch out!”) and Tails Up refers to a happy animal when it’s tail is up in the air.
Jennifer Lopez… I’ve seen better, but never great.
J Lopez is the female version of Hugh Grant… one trick pony… yawn. Stupid romantic comidies.
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.
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.
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!!!
ya but the picture of the movie poster shows off her amazxing ass!
this looks so bad, i can see it bombing big time