“The Back Up Plan” is your typical Lifetime channel movie. Everyone is beautiful; the conflict, which isn’t really a conflict, is resolved easily; and everyone lives happily ever after. It’s a romantic-comedy that doesn’t have a compelling romance or believable humor. What you have is J-Lo at her airbrushed best. She looks beautiful, even when her character Zoe is going through her third trimester of pregnancy. And her co-star, Alex O’Loughlin, holds his own when he’s next to Lopez, but you hardly believe that their characters have found their soul mates.
Zoe, a woman in her mid-30s who’s convinced that she’s never going to meet Mr. Right, decides to go to a fertility clinic to gain the child she’s always wanted. However, no sooner has Zoe been inseminated than she meets the hunky Stan (O’Loughlin), a farmer who sells cheese at the local Farmers’ Market. Will Stan stay with Zoe once he learns she’s pregnant (with twins, no less) or will he flee? Rom-com, remember? Of course he stays. Wait until “The Back Up Plan” airs on Lifetime. 4/28/10
1 comment:
There is only a couple of things wrong with this flick:
1. J-Lo can't act
2. The story is weak & predictable
3. The love scenes have no joie de vivre.
4. There is no chemistry between the actors.
Other than that its fine.
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