Maid in Manhattan (PG-13) | ||||||||||
Get those thoughts out of your head, she's just Jenny from the Block | ||||||||||
The new J Lo movie came out last month. It�s called Maid In Manhattan, but really the name doesn�t matter, since people just refer to it as The New J Lo Movie. I�d tell you what I thought of it now, but I did some research for this review, and I have a cool theory, so you have to read all that first. I used to have a theory that no one actually liked Jennifer Lopez. I thought we were all just so saturated with her presence on our TVs, radios, magazine covers and makeup that everyone had assumed she was a star, without anyone actually liking her. Someone in an office on Madison Avenue decided to give her a snazzy nickname, (something cool, I got it, �J Lo�, see it�s her initials, well, sort of...) close enough to a one word name that we might confuse her success with Madonna or Cher. Then last month I was invited to go to the Sneak Preview of �the new J Lo movie�. A Sneak Preview?? Who the hell would want to see that movie in the first place, let alone a week before the rest of the brainwashed masses?? I politely declined. But my theory that no one actually likes Jennifer Lopez was proven wrong, and I had to replace it with a new theory -- Almost no one actually likes Jennifer Lopez. There was a time when J Lo was just Jennifer Lopez. Not �Jenny from the Block�, her new �homegirl� image, either. Just Jennifer Lopez. She was a dancer (technically �Fly Girl�) on Fox�s �In Living Color�. Then she got some small parts in some small films, �Anaconda� and �U Turn�. Then she was in the critically acclaimed �Out of Sight", where she played a gorgeous cop, a tough girl unlucky in love. Then she starred in �The Cell�, where she played a gorgeous psychiatrist, a tough girl unlucky in love. Then in "My Best Friends Wedd..." oops I mean "The Wedding Planner", she was a gorgeous (although maybe not as tough) wedding planner, but still unlucky in love. That was followed by "Angel Eyes", where she was a gorgeous cop, a tough girl unlucky in love. And then "Enough", where she played an abused (but gorgeous) wife who fights back against her husband. In other words, a tough girl unlucky in love. I'm not skipping any movies here -- that's her filmography, from supporting actress in 1998 to "BIG STAR" in 2002. ON TO PAGE TWO... |
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