Jackpollins Review of The Back-up Plan

The Back-up Plan (2010)

I should have made up a back up plan instead of seeing this garbage

[1/10 · 24 April 2010]

Still having the terrible taste of Leap Year, The Bounty Hunter, and Did You Hear About The Morgans in my mouth, I walked into The Back Up Plan wondering what I was doing there. I then walked out of The Back Up Plan wondering what I was doing there. The best thing that can be said for this film is at least there's a Jennifer without the last name Aniston starring in it. Anthony Anderson has a welcome cameo as a playground dad, and Alex O'Loughlin as Zoe (Jennifer Lopez)'s love interest, Stan is good, but what can they really do with this forced, unfunny material? There's one scene in particular that stood out to me as an example of how bad this film is. That scene is a scene in which a woman, not Zoe was giving birth. The joke is that the birth plays more like an exorcism. That's a funny premise for a joke, but they take it way too far to the point where my stomach churned. Also, Zoe takes every word Stan says as a sign that he's leaving her. He never does leave her, but I would have if I were him, because Zoe was just so unpleasant. I found The Back Up Plan to be less a movie and more a brainless sitcom that only made it to the length of 5 episodes. Yes, 5 sitcom episodes is a total of 110 minutes, so this is another romantic comedy that runs way longer than it should have. Please, for the good of mankind, skip this garbage, and rent a good romantic comedy like Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing, or When Harry Met Sally.