Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Back away

Hmix of a rom-com with a slightly pungent taste of explicit humour

The Backup Plan needs to buck-up if it plans to do good business at the box office. Attracting the crowd on J-Lo’s (Jennifer Lopez) pretext would not suffice for this drag of an epic which atrociously stretches for around 2 hours. No doubt the movie begins in an interesting manner and there are funny and romantic sequences all through, but gross scenes showing loud uncouth women delivering a baby in a tub and trying to portray it as funny is probably the epitome of misconception.

The movie starts to pinch after a while when such disgusting motherhood cravings are blatantly shown onscreen. Jennifer Lopez gracefully comes on screen as a pet shop owner who is a self made woman and has only a granny to call her family. Her urge to have a kid is satisfied when she artificially gets herself inseminated and takes the bold step to greet motherhood all by herself.

Never having met Mr. Right, she least expects to run into him (Alex O’Loughlin) so soon after she makes this giant leap in her personal life. How Mr. Right actually plays along and supports this not so single mommy is fun to watch. It was also fun to see the ‘dog whisperer’ Cesar Millan on screen sharing his favourite ‘how to be a pack leader?’ tips! Although the little pooch, who mostly steals the show, is an interesting companion for the hot diva; one shall not miss the scene when J Lo’s granny walks the aisle and unites with her 97 year old fiancĂ© at the altar. But there aren’t too many back ups beyond that.

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IIPM Editorial, 2009


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