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Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) realizes her dialogue is so bad that she tries to spit it into a paper sack during “The Back-up Plan.” |
Here’s a romantic comedy that thinks if a woman vomiting once is funny, it’ll be twice as funny if she vomits again.
Or that if a man “accidentally” falling down is funny once, it’ll be a real hoot if he falls down again. (Imagine the hilarity when several people “accidentally” fall down!)
Oh, stop, please! My sides are killing me! Oh, wait. That’s my head, not my sides.
“The Back-up Plan” casts romance and pregnancy in such an abysmally dismal light, that watching it instantly becomes the most effective form of birth control since the invention of the Pill.
It stars Jennifer Lopez as Zoe, a single New Yorker racing against her biological clock. Too impatient to wait for Mr. Right, she opts for Mr. Right Now, an unknown sperm donor who supplies the necessary component for her artificial insemination.
Wouldn’t you know it? On the very day this deed gets done, she dashes into a cab at the same time a handsome man enters the other side.
He’s Stan, played by the charismatic Alex O’Loughlin. He makes organic cheeses on his upstate farm and sells them as a New York street vendor. The moment he lays eyes on Zoe, he’s smitten and follows her around, trying to pique her interest in dairy. (Read more…)