Funny..? Check...Sex appeal offered by both main stars...Check. The writers trying too hard to make you like this film..BIG CHECK. It was SO predictable after the first 20 minutes. Single professional gal decided her life would be more complete with a kid...but..woops...she is not involved with anyone worthwhile create one with...so she heads off to the local sperm bank...and presto..she gets it done. Who needs man..she does not! But..wait...wait..you know it's coming...she meets a NICE guy..right after she does the deed at the doctors' office. Of all the cabs all over NYC she gets into the same one he has chosen. Fate? Accident? Oh wait..this is fiction...so it was planned...LOL. They hit it off...as strangers always do of course...and they begin a relationship..very rapidly actually. She finds out that she is indeed in the family way...woops..will this throw a wrench into the works so the NICE guy runs away? I mean...doesn't EVERTY NICE GUY do the right thing when he finds out the woman he is seeing was already expecting when he met her? Of course he does. He has fallen deeply in love with her...and all kinds of wacky falling in love adventures happen because of it. The cheese scene is way over the top...who wants to roll around in cheese? Imagine the smell? Gross. To me...this was just an easy vehicle for J-Lo to use to get her face back into the mainstream again. After all...it had been a while since she had to prove to the masses that she was a MOVIE STAR as well as a MUSICAL PERFORMER! I guess being married and raising twins had gotten boring. I am a fan of Alex O'Loughin..he was so sexy in "Moonlight" as a vampire/cop...and his new series "Hawaii 5-0" has proved to be a good choice as well. He did seem to have some chemistry with Lopez...but it was clearly her show all the way. She isn't that young anymore...and soon won't be able to play the scatter-brained single chick for much longer....no matter how good she looks. No one wants to see a 50 something play the part of a 25 yr. old....I hope it doesn't come down to that for her. I guess she more or less has her pick of what she does and doesn't do on camera....but this was not the best choice for her. It didn't seem realistic for the most part...even though there were funny moments here and there. It was a film better suited to DVD rental than buying it outright.
Review of The Back-up Plan
