The Back-Up Plan
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Fall in love, get married, have a baby. Not necessarily in that order.
When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life's dreams fit with each other.
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While you're watching this you'll need a back-up plan as well.
- Tell your partner (as he/she is probably making you watch this) that tonight's dinner is giving you explosive diarrhoea (while we all know that's J-Lo's fault)
- Sprint to the bathroom where you've already placed an assortment of snacks, a laptop and a stack of DVD's with films that aren't as unbelievably horrid as this one.
- Be sure to fart loudly now and then so your partner doesn't get suspicious.
- Enjoy your evening.
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It's not my fault. I was just in the room at the time.
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Part of The December Project
This is not a good film. It's dumb, badly structured, unrealistic and the performances are over the top.
But for some reason I didn't hate it as much as I know I should.
I suppose it did have a few jokes that landed and I've seen Jennifer Lopez in more annoying performances.
But to be honest, I suspect I didn't mind it so much due to the fact that the film I watched directly before was even worse.
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I'm a sucker for Jenifer Lopez! I just love her.
This movie is not her best Romantic Comedy but I still laughed out loud a couple times.
Plus that disabled dog was just so cute!!! 1 star just for the dog!
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Well, that was.. not a good movie. Dumb, lazy, and there's maybe one laugh in the whole thing.
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Standart FIlm mit vielen Klischees.
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Easily one of the most predictable, formulaic, cliche-driven movies I've ever seen. We tried to make a little game of saying the actors' dialogue before they did, but it was too easy.
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Spawn from television origins; 'The Back-up Plan' is a formulaic romantic comedy from debut director Alan Poul (Six-Feet Under, Big Love) and screenwriter Kate Angelo (Will & Grace) that may be quite predictable and banal, but actually works to some degree.
Jennifer Lopez (U-Turn, Out of Sight) is our leading lady while Alex O’Loughlin (Whiteout) plays Stan in his first major role in film. Pet store owner Zoe has given up waiting for Mr. Right to arrive in her life to help her dispense a family. She has decided to do ‘what she had to do’ and have an artificial insemination operation so she can have the child she’s forever wanted. On the same day she happens to run into Stan,…
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I am so far behind on logging movies, and as usual, I would say this will be short, but when I say that, they never are.
This was such a confusing movie to me. I had thought I knew where it was going; after all, it's a romantic comedy, and they all have the same basic structure. However, the movie seemed uncertain where it wanted to go, and for quite some time I thought it was going to eschew your typical rom com formula in favor of doing something different and examining how two people prepare for the arrival of a baby. Then, without warning, the movie veers in another direction, using the most cliched of rom com tropes. I…
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So much more fun than I expected, great for a good laugh :D
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Could have been done better. Now it's only worth watching because of O'Loughlin :)
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I'm a sucker for Jenifer Lopez! I just love her.
This movie is not her best Romantic Comedy but I still laughed out loud a couple times.
Plus that disabled dog was just so cute!!! 1 star just for the dog!
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Det finnes vel få melkekuer som er større enn ungdommene for ungdommer vil det alltid finnes og oppskriften for å tekkes disse er mot normalt den samme; med andre ord kreves det sjelden så mye av disse typiske tennåringsfilmene og de store filmstudioene ser derfor sitt snitt til å terpe på gammelt ræl i ny innpakning for å få tak i en størst mulig del av ukepengene til sitt publikum. Med The Back-Up Plan loves det imidlertid gull og grønne skoger, men allerede etter 30 sekunder lurer man på om det egentlig handler om tyggegummi og rosa pelsstøvletter.
Manusforfatter Kate Angelo - som den feministen hun åpenbart er - tar ikke akkurat sikte på å revolusjonere sub-sjangeren "romantiske tennåringskomedier" med…
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Part of The December Project
This is not a good film. It's dumb, badly structured, unrealistic and the performances are over the top.
But for some reason I didn't hate it as much as I know I should.
I suppose it did have a few jokes that landed and I've seen Jennifer Lopez in more annoying performances.
But to be honest, I suspect I didn't mind it so much due to the fact that the film I watched directly before was even worse.