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process of full film reviews and instead opts to break
things down based on what I thought going in, what happened
while I was there and what I learned at the end of it all.
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The
Breakdown - The Backup Plan
The Impression:
Lets be frank: Jennifer Lopez hasn't made a single frame of
decent cinema since the amazing Out Of Sight, perhaps
the greatest fluke of all time. Thus, the posters slapped
around my neighborhood blandly spelling out a J-Lo
baby/marriage comedy do not portend good things.
The Reality:
Exactly what I thought: a generic, almost humorless poke at
a single woman trying to have a baby. I'll say this in the
film's favor - for a moment during the credits as an
animated J-Lo strutted about New York imagining babies of
all varieties, I thought perhaps this film had promise.
Perhaps this film would hark back to the simple, bubbly
comedies of the 1950s, where a pretty face had comedic
promise and scripts weren't just rehashes of rehashes.
Sadly, no. Generic, boring, barely pulled a chuckle from a
crowd of J-Lo loving filmgoers.
The Lesson:
Make the one movie you see for review each week be anything
but a J-Lo comedy.
Noah Sanders is the blog/news editor at Light In The
Attic and a contributor at Sound On The Sound and
the KEXP blog. He also has his own
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