The Back Up plan Movie review

Plot: A romantic comedy centered on a woman who conceives twins through artificial insemination, only to meet the man of her dreams on the very same day. (From IMDB)

Starring: Jennifer Lopez as Zoe, and Alex O' Loughlin as Stan

Alright, let's talk plot here, it's simple, you have a woman who's sick of dating and wants to have a baby. She ultimately decides to inseminate herself and lo and behold right after she does, she meets the man of her dreams. A sad and maybe cruel trick of fate? That, for me is the only twist in the whole plot. The rest is pretty basic, you have them meet each other and fight, then suddenly after some events they like each other. The writer focuses more on their relationship together, learning to live with the fact that she is pregnant, add in a few jokes about pregnant women and there you have the story. Truthfully, at the end of the movie, i was just feeling neutral about the movie, nothing that great there. I had some doubts about the characters themselves. Firstly, stan, the main guy, He is too nice!! seriously, i have not met a real human guy who is so nice as to accept the woman with twins and just being so nice to her although she tries to push him away. Yes, he does get a little fustrated, but i don't know, he's just too patient, he;s just too good to be true. As for Zoe, only at the end of the movie did i find out her character is supposed to be stubborn. Pushing people away i got, but stubborn? i didn't know that not feeding her dog was considered stubborn. I didn't get that at all. So it's either a problem with the script or the acting. 

I also did not appreciate the birth scene in the movie. Yes you are doing a movie about a woman getting pregnant, she joins a support group of single mothers and proud, one of them is bound to give birth in the movie, but did you have to show it in such detail? I don't know what the writer wanted to do with that scene? poke fun at women giving birth and the horrors a guy has to go through watching it? I guess it would be funny to see the guy faint and all, but do it right, with some dignity please, especially on the woman's side. The whole movie tries to poke fun at the mood swings pregnant women go through, like getting super angry because she can't fit into her nice clothes or being permanently glued to her pillow. Those parts were ok compared to the birth scene. 

Now onto what i liked about the movie, the guy, although his character is unbelievable , but he is cute/hot. I think that's all......yup. 

The final verdict, to watch or not? If you have nothing else better to watch, nothing else better to do and you are desperate for a chick flick, then yes, if not, there are other movies to watch like the upcoming movie tangled!!

Rating :4/10

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