The Back-Up Plan Movie Reviews

Sweet, sentimental and harmless fun, this rom-com gently cruises along the usual path of candle-lit romance, bedroom encounters, lover's brawls, passionate re-unions and some humour too, with a support group of single mothers trying to have fun in no-man's land. Jennifer Lopez thinks she's got her life all neatly planned out with her pet shop, her disabled pet (an adorable dog), her spunky nana and her decision to be a single mother

An intended romantic comedy that manages to generate just one or two guffaw worthy moments, this is a film that lacks solid genre content. Written by Kate Angelo and directed by Alan Poul, the movie is undoubtedly a vehicle meant for shoring-up Jennifer Lopez's star value following her disappointing big-screen track record. Lopez has a very amiable screen presence but this film is certainly not going to boost her career for sure

This movie is so blatantly a comeback vehicle for Ms Lopez that the filmmakers even include a scene where the leads discuss what used to be Ms Lopez's most famous body part. Yes, it is that kind of movie. I don't even think too many people noticed that Jennifer Lopez had been gone from the scene for several years. I'm sure they wouldn't have minded waiting to see her in a better movie than this one.

By the time this film hurtles towards its predictable climax, you're so bored you could scream out aloud and plead with them to make it stop. When it finally does end, you want to race to the exit at the cost of trampling over others' feet.

Jennifer Lopez is sexy, and sure she can carry a tune. But - as films like Gigli, The Wedding Planner and Maid In Manhattan have proved -- acting, particularly in romantic comedies, is not her thing. And yet she returns with another one! In The Back-Up Plan, the artist formerly known as 'Jenny From The Block' plays a whiney pet-shop owner who's given up on love, but desperately wants to have a baby. Prepared to raise a child as a single