Will they stay together? Will he raise her kids? Who decided this film was a good idea? Fun fact: Lopez vomits into a bin at the end. Photograph: Allstar/Sonyīy far the worst J-Lo romcom of all time, The Back-Up Plan sees Lopez playing a woman who falls in love with an anonymous boy actor three seconds after being artificially inseminated with twins. Lopez plays a hardbitten news reporter on investigating a spate of murders on the US-Mexico border in a film that contains a genuinely confusing musical number by the Colombian pop star Juanes for literally no reason at all. Bordertown (2007)īooed at its Berlin premiere, Bordertown is a witless would-be thriller that obliterates every one of its good intentions with sheer turbo-powered boneheadedness. Lopez isn’t bad in Jack – she has a relatively small, sweet part – but that shouldn’t detract from the fact that she’s in it.
Francis Ford Coppola directed it, for crying out loud. The poster features the title written in crayon. It stars Robin Williams as a schoolboy who looks like a middle-aged man. One of those films where every detail makes you question whether or not it even existed.
The best thing about it is that Lopez dies quite quickly. A sludgy Kevin Smith melodrama, Lopez’s role was pruned for fear it would remind people of Gigli, which it did anyway. How did Lopez bounce back from this historic flop? By making the second-worst film of her career, also with Affleck.