Estrogen-fueled 'Back Up Plan' worth the ticket
In the new straight-to-the-point comedy, “The Back-Up Plan,” Jennifer Lopez makes her return to film as the 30-something Zoe, whose life never seems to go as planned.
Still single and childless, Zoe starts the film by getting artificially inseminated.
Everything seems to be falling into place, but just as she starts to wonder if she’s actually pregnant, she meets a reason to start having doubts.
When Zoe runs into Stan, a student goat cheese producer played by Alex O’Laughlin, she begins to question if maybe she rushed into her decision to become a single mother.
It seems Stan might be her mister right, but when she tells him she’s pregnant, he does everything short of running away. (Although he does have a bit of a nervous breakdown when art begins to imitate life and he hears two heartbeats on Zoe’s sonogram.)
Pushed by the wisdom of her grandmother and best friend Mona (a mother with a Sarah Silverman-esque brand of humor), Zoe tries to make it work with Stan. It isn’t easy; every other scene there’s an inconsequential argument or a peek at hormonal dysfunction.
Support groups, water births and predictability aside, the estrogen-fueled comedy of “The Back-Up Plan” is worth the ticket.
2.5 out of 5