Very well executed

The Worst Film Ever

How sad is this?

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) is a successful single NYC gal and has given up finding the perfect man. She goes to have artificial insemination. Her friend harried mom Mona (Michaela Watkins) warns against it. Clive (Eric Christian Olsen) refuses to contribute. After insemination, she fights Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) for a cab. Carol (Melissa McCarthy) leads the single mom support group. She runs into Stan who is selling cheese at the farmer's market. Despite being pursued by muffin girl Olivia (Danneel Harris), Stan falls for Zoe. After being told about her pregnancy, Stan befriends a dad (Anthony Anderson) at the playground.Lopez and O'Loughlin have limited chemistry and the story doesn't help. Lopez tries hard but she has to keep asking if he's leaving. It doesn't allow for the chemistry to build. There are some good comedic talents here. None of that can save this badly conceived movie.

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 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.

I loved this film, it was funny sweet and easy to watch. Nobody gets killed no violence, a pleasant change. Both actors did great, leading man Alex (Hawaii Five-0) is gorgeous beyond words, loved the scene when she was driving to his farm and crashes because she cant take her eyes off him. There's a lot of bad reviews on here about this movie but I'm wondering what some people were actually expecting, its a real chick flick and def worth a watch (with female friends, leave the boyfriend and his pack to watch Saw/ Drag me to hell ) Yes the ending was a little predictable but whats wrong with that ? Like I said just a fun girlie movie with a completely gorgeous leading man(who can also act I might add) so don't be put off by all the bad reviews on here 10/10 hthbrr2 wow you're so intense, every movie you have reviewed on here has the same input. Seriously you need to chill out !