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| Jennifer Lopez needs a different Back-Up Plan to rediscover her talent It's back to cookie-cutter romcoms as Jennifer Lopez makes a comeback. But someone needs to point her towards her adventurous 90s films if she really wants to recover her mojoVincent Van Gogh, Nick Drake, Jennifer Lopez. Three lives marked by public apathy and critical disregard. Three lives whose genius lay undiscovered until it was too late. Three lives scratched out in a mess of poverty and desperate anonymity.Apart from Jennifer Lopez, obviously, because she's one of the most famous women on Earth and she's sold 48m albums and her films have made a total of $900m around the world and she's released 18 different perfumes and has definitely kissed Ben Affleck on the mouth at least once. But that doesn't matter 窶 Jennifer Lopez is easily just as unknown and underappreciated as the other two, whatever their names were. It's about time that the world woke up and started to realise what a rare talent that woman is.Or at least that's what J-Lo herself seems to think. Last week, as part of an ongoing comeback that has so far involved singing a song about some shoes and not much else, Lopez gave two oddly defensive interviews to two different magazines. First she told Elle that her romantic comedies like Maid in Manhattan and Monster-in-Law were much better than everyone thought because "nothing that's shitty is going to make $100m", and then she informed Latina that she probably deserved to win an Oscar for her portrayal of Puchi Lavoe in the 2007 Hﾃｩctor Lavoe biopic El Cantante. While it's easy to find flaws in her arguments 窶 like the fact that Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel has grossed more than $100m and that the four people who saw El Cantante generally hated it 窶 does Lopez have a point? Have her other interests, like her music, her perfume, her love life and her big bottom, blinded us to the fact that deep-down she's actually a world-class actor?Probably not, no. She might have been able to back up statements like that a decade ago, when she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Selena, or when Out of Sight and U-Turn singled her out as an actor with great things ahead of her 窶 or even when she took a chance by making the beautiful but incomprehensible The Cell 窶 but thanks to her natural attraction to rubbish, that all seems like ancient history.Now Lopez is so busy trying to make money and win awards that she's forgotten how to do either. Her new movie The Back-Up Plan looks like a dimwitted retread of every other formulaic romcom she's ever made, and her last two serious attempts at Oscar bait 窶 El Cantante and Bordertown 窶 were such cack-handedly incompetent stabs at winning the Academy over that she may as well have written "For Your Consideration" across her forehead at the start of every take. Bordertown didn't even get a theatrical release in America, which technically makes it worse than Gigli and Jersey Girl combined. Unthinkable, isn't it?Maybe if she started to put a little more thought into her roles, then maybe we might see flashes of what made Lopez such a prospect in the 1990s. How she'd do this is up to her 窶 maybe she could join a low-budget ensemble project or work with a director unafraid to bully her into a great performance 窶 but it seems like puncturing her ego would be a good start. Until she does that, it's hard to see how Lopez can ever do anything that's even a tenth as good as she thinks she is.Until then, I've heard that some of her perfumes are OK. And you can still buy Maid In Manhattan on DVD from Amazon for 81p ...RomanceComedyStuart Heritageguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
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