I was sitting in a darkened movie theater waiting for Jennifer Lopez's new movie, The Back-up Plan, to start, when I got an e-mail on my BlackBerry. Subject line: "Breakthrough Egg Freezing ...

There's a potentially insightful movie tucked inside "The Back-Up Plan's" connect-the-dots premise. (It's called "A Modern Affair," an edgy 1995 comedy that starred Lisa Eichhorn and Stanley Tucci.) ...

By Kirk Honeycutt “The Back-Up Plan” hopes to generate romantic comedy by reversing the normal order of things so that pregnancy comes before a couple meets. Otherwise, it’s still boy-meets ...

Sure enough, all those moments fall into line in “The Back-Up Plan,” a tedious comedy that gives Jennifer Lopez her first movie in four years. It’s a rom-com that could easily have gone to ...

And in many ways he serves as an apt metaphor for a movie that’s nothing more than a disabled dog. Patriot Ledger writer Al Alexander may be reached at [email protected]. THE BACK-UP PLAN ...

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you wonder what she’s doing in a trifling movie like this. Indifferently directed by Alan Poul, “The Back-up Plan” is not a blessed event, but it’s not bad. The film’s comic misfires ...

When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all ...

Where she mopes around in her pants and the film ends? There’s something about the hideous predictability of The Back-Up Plan. About Lopez‘s feisty unlucky-in-love gal. About her kooky work-makes.

Translating “The Back-up Plan” into formats more traditionally associated with CBS, this tepid romantic comedy falls somewhere between a weak sitcom pilot and a second-tier Hallmark movie.

The Back-Up Plan is a film divided against itself. It’s really two movies, one silly and one serious. Too bad neither is particularly compelling. GET A.V.CLUB RIGHT IN YOUR INBOX Pop culture ...

Indeed, The Back-Up Plan is so lived-in and familiar that the animated title sequence feels borrowed from a Doris Day movie. Of course Doris Day never began a film with her legs in the air ...