The The Back-up Plan feels very much like many of JLo’s previous rom-coms, Wedding Planner and Maid in Manhattan meets Tina Fey’s Baby Mama— except it’s more mature and much more humorous than the usual Jenny from the Block features.
As much as I thought I would be tempted to walk out, I was hooked early on. The characters are well developed, the lines—witty and sharp—and the slapstick humor throughout the film really engaged me. The laughs throughout the film are balanced with the more serious undertones of a single thirty-something woman’s desire to have children.
Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) is a successful corporate professional type-turned-pet- shop-owner, who has good friends, her loving grandmother Nana, a great apartment, and an adorable dog named Nuts (a handicapped Boston Terrier).
As much as I thought I would be tempted to walk out, I was hooked early on. The characters are well developed, the lines—witty and sharp—and the slapstick humor throughout the film really engaged me. The laughs throughout the film are balanced with the more serious undertones of a single thirty-something woman’s desire to have children.
Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) is a successful corporate professional type-turned-pet- shop-owner, who has good friends, her loving grandmother Nana, a great apartment, and an adorable dog named Nuts (a handicapped Boston Terrier).
