This isn't the first bad rom-com I've seen exactly. But it does stick out for being EXCEPTIONALLY bad, because I didn't for a SECOND buy anything at all which was happening. Every minute of this movie is stupid. We have Zoe, who is inseminated. Then we find her fighting over a taxi with somebody. FIrst of all, what does it matter who saw the taxi first? They can both ride in it! Just dumb. Secondly, there's the typical "Oh, the guy he/she saw earlier suddenly pops up right where she happens to be out of sheer coincidence" cliché. And only a MINUTE after talking with him about his cheese business, she falls in love with him? WHY? And how come they are so nice to each other now? Oh, I forgot, there has to be the "Small silly argument leads to true love" s'hit! Hell, after meeting him only ONE, ONE MORE time I tell you, she starts to blush when thinking about him. And only a few days later, Stan prepares a dinner so grandiose it's like they were celebrating their anniversary. And after that, they are DEEPLY in love with each other, like they've known each other for months. She tells him later on she's pregnant. Does he say "I don't know about this, we've only known each other for a week"? NO! He f'ucking agrees right away to be a father! HOW THE HELL WOULD THAT EVER HAPPEN??? If it's anything this movie does, it's rushing. Rushing, rushing, rushing forward everything. And we are just supposed to believe it. Like we are a flock of retarded sheep.Later on, he says to someone it's not "their children". With that, he means she inseminated herself. But she interprets it as "Oh, you don't give a s'hit about our children! You asshole!" So guess what? She breaks up with just because he used a poor choice of words. EVEN HER OWN F'UCKING MOTHER POINTS OUT THE STUPIDITY OF THIS, FOR F'UCK'S SAKE! Then, there's the "shocking" twist ending where it turns out she's pregnant again. Wow. Like that was meant to surprise me. If anything, that's as predictable as it f'ucking gets.If that's not enough to convince you what a stinking piece of s'hit this is, there's also the acting. Melissa McCarthy is great as usual, and she's doing her best with the poor dialogue she's given. Linda Lavin is okay. She's nothing special, but she does have a few amusing lines at least. The rest are terrible. Everyone is either overacting in the worst possible way or sound like they don't give a s'hit about the movie. Which isn't strange though, since the script is so lackluster the lines meant to sound romantic are more of a joke than the jokes themselves. Jennifer Lopez is godawful. Her shrieky and even childish voice gets on my nerves! She also had the worst character, who doesn't know how to make reasonable decisions if she so was held at gunpoint. Alex O'Loughlin isn't much better. In fact, he's almost just as bad. Just like Lopez, he's overacting to the worst degree and doesn't nail a single moment, even those that could have been funny. I just get the feeling that he thinks "F'uck it, I'm doing this just because, no point in giving a convincing performance". Either that or he's just an all-out terrible actor. Unless I see a movie where he's doing a better job, he's simply a terrible actor to me. The music playing throughout the movie is just a string of stock music used for one thousand romantic comedies and some crummy out-of-place "hip" new songs.Phew. Finally got that out there. Be warned people. If you have to watch a mediocre romantic comedy with someone, pick a Hugh Grant movie. At least he can actually f'ucking act.

I like romantic comedies, occasionally (war movies and sci-fi are my go to normally). I know people are inclined to pan her, but I like Jennifer Lopez, and she has pulled off many fine and occasionally very funny performances in films as diverse as Angel Eyes and Maid In Manhatten. But here everything is forced. She's having a perfectly wonderful time, but the smile never quite reaches her eyes.I like Alex O'Loughlin too. He's caught a couple of bad TV breaks losing out on two series before striking gold with Hawaii Five-0. He's a fine actor, when he's paired with someone who gets his style and gives him something to play against.This, in a nutshell, is my problem with this film. Firstly, it must be said, the script is beyond terrible. It is very difficult to make cheese romantic or funny. This script does neither.Artificial insemination as the punchline... laugh... I thought I'd never start.The essence of romantic comedy is that the couple should sizzle. Alex is a handsome and athletic leading man, taking his shirt off and sitting on a tractor... sorry, one this is a horrible hackneyed and embarrassing cliché, two, other than goat's cheese and his inexplicable turn at night school (never really explained why he's going to night school to be an accountant but hey, they needed to give him something to do), he really has almost nothing to work with. He tries to give flesh to his character, Stan, and the script never makes Stan more than a cardboard cut out. Alex simply isn't the kind of actor who can work with nothing. Frustratingly, there are occasional glimpses of what might have been if he had anything to work with.Jennifer Lopez is an attractive woman with a great body and a pretty face, and yes, she can act... but this turkey... she is just going through the motions. The script has the feel of having been written for her. It has very clear milestones, which it gleefully ticks off and moves on to the next predictable trope. Again, she is capable of far more, and the script offers her nothing.Secondly, if ever there was a mis-match, this pairing is it. They are both pretty, pretty people, they have their own unique charms, but nothing about their romantic encounters sizzles. It is unforgivable in a romantic comedy that the leading couple have no chemistry.There are some amusing moments, they are few and far between. Too few, and far too far between. The plot is lazy. It's a shame, because on paper it could have been fun. It's just painful.

I honestly don't know where to begin. This movie had some promise in the storyline, but somehow the actors and the scriptwriters seem to have butchered it into this mess of a film. The movie isn't actually very funny, or very romantic.The Back-Up Plan is about Zoe (Jennifer Lopez), a New Yorker who gets artificially inseminated after years of failed relationships. Just after her meeting at the doctor's office she meets a handsome and mysterious man named Stan (Alex O'Loughlin). Of course she does get pregnant, and of course she meets Stan again. He sells goat cheese and makes it at his own farm. They fall in love and decide to raise the baby together. The storyline is very shaky and I think the only reason everyone stayed in the theater was that they wanted to finish their popcorn. To keep the film going the writers use two techniques: 1) Have the main characters break up and make up like three times. 2) Include unnecessary scenes such as ten minutes of feminists helping a woman give birth. The script itself is bad and the dialogue doesn't seem natural.The acting is slightly better, but only slightly. Jennifer Lopez is as attractive as always, and this is perhaps her best acting yet, but even her best still isn't enough to make a good movie. Alex O'Loughlin (Whiteout) is relatively unknown, and I think I know why. The girls I saw this film with commented that he had a 'hot body', this is the sole reason he ever got an acting job in the first place. This man can not act. His emotions were flat and his dialogue was just boring throughout the entire film.Alan Poul is a relatively new director, meaning that he hasn't many movies yet. His style is fine, but he still deserves some of the blame for this movie's failure to entertain. For example, the extended birth scene I talked about earlier. It's not even Jennifer Lopez giving birth, and the whole scene is weird and pretty stupid. Overall, The Back-Up Plan is not a good movie and I would personally not recommend it, but hey, somebody out there might like it.

This movie was really bad! SPOILERS after this point: J.Lo is playing a woman that makes no sense, first off. She can't trust anyone. So how does she run her own business? Doesn't she have to trust her co-workers? What about every other thing in life? I guess she has no business with anyone, since she can't trust them! She can't eat at restaurants since she can't trust that they will get her order right. Yet she does all things a normal person does.If she was abnormal I would believe this plot. But since she has a job, has friends, social life, is happy, etc.... I just can't take that she has a severe mental problem of JUST not trusting guys. The story was that her father left her mother. And that you can't trust/rely on anyone. Sooooooo that means she has to be 110% crazy! She should be in a mental facility! Also the fact that this guy has this much patience makes no sense. I guess he is a non-existent person like Zoe! The water birth scene, among others, was JUST DISGUSTING! NOT funny or sense making, BUT JUST DISGUSTING.I am ashamed that I watched this movie!