In New York, the former executive and presently owner of a pet shop Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) has no boy-friend and only a couple of friends since she has difficulties to let people into her life. She lost her parents when she was a child and her only relative alive is her grandmother that lives in a nursing home and Zoe feeling lonely. She decides on artificial insemination to have a baby and to join a supporting group of single mothers. When she leaves the clinic very happy with the successful procedure, she meets the cheese manufacturer and college student Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) and they immediately feel attracted for each other. They date and Zoe believes she has found the prince charming and changes her expectation with the insemination. However the doctor finds that she is pregnant and now she has the dilemmatic situation: how to tell Stan that she is pregnant.

"The Back-up Plan" was supposed to be a romantic comedy; unfortunately it is a cheesy, unfunny and non-romantic comedy. The idea of "falling in love", "getting married" and "having a baby" not necessarily in this order" could have worked with a better screenplay. However, the situations and characters are too stupid to work. Zoe is described as a former successful executive but her character seems to be a housewife fan of melodramatic soap-operas. Stan is a guy trying to reach an objective in life through the study at night and Zoë's character has nothing positive to keep a steady relationship out of time. His decision of staying with an unstable woman pregnant of twins is absolutely unreasonable and never funny. The writer seems to be alienated from the concept and reality of raising a family. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "Plano B" ("Plan B")

I am not sure how they managed to make this movie so bad. They seemed to try pretty hard to do that. When I heard the story I thought it would be hilarious. A woman gets artificial insemination and meets the love of her life the same day. This could have been very funny, but it was just the opposite of it.

The thing is that it makes no sense. I don't see what happened with those to that after a few dates the guy without much questioning had no problems to raise somebody elses kids. Sure he was all shocked but didn't even consider the option of getting out. And then they have this lame fight based on miscommunication? Sure, there is a conflict needed in such a movie but there were so many opportunities to have a believable one with such a story.

I have nothing against JLo and have seen her do some good acting before but in this movie she is just irritating. Bad acting and a very annoying voice. My god, how did this guy fall for her, especially since he didn't see her awesome "old ass". The guy's character is absolutely boring. There is nothing about him that makes him interesting, making cheese isn't enough, especially since there seems to be too much cheese.

The single mom's group was just a sad disappointment. Yes, I get it they were going for slapstick, but Zoe freaking out at that birth just made her more dislikable again.. Sure, it was insanity and more gross than funny, but her overreaction to it was too much.

The only good thing about this movie besides the idea is the adorable dog, he is the reason I give an extra point as he was some cute fellow. but he just made Zoe's character even more unlikable as I never saw her being nice to the little fellow, I remember her yelling at him though. The pug needed more screen time for sure.

I feel bad for Tom Bosley that this was his last movie. Such a good and well known actor going away in this disaster..

I don't get it why people so undermine this movie. It was indeed predictable most of the time but come on, there were many moment of laughter.

I saw this movie with an ex girlfriend and we were seeing many moments we had on our first dates and we enjoyed to see it was inspired from real facts. Many of the comical situations do happen in real life and it really gets to you when you see it from outside.

The main plot may be a little exaggerated, how everything comes together but it's a classic date movie and you cannot have such high expectations from it.

The cast is OK, even though Jennifer Lopez is a little overpowered by her role, but she manages in the end to pull it of. Alex O'Loughlin is the perfect "I don't know if I want to be a father but I love this woman" guy and makes every moment a real delight.

Everyone gives it a 4 or 5, I give it an 8 because you can have a blast if you watch it with your girlfriend or ex.