{"id":49788,"date":"2022-02-10T17:59:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T17:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=49788"},"modified":"2022-02-11T01:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T01:52:53","slug":"jennifer-lopez-jlo-romcom-marry-me","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennifer-lopez-jlo-romcom-marry-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned From Watching All of Jennifer Lopez\u2019s Rom-Coms"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49789\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-49789\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/02\/image6-e1644512729742.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson in Marry Me\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson in <i>Marry Me<\/i> (Photo: courtesy Universal Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On New Year\u2019s Eve, I happened to see a commercial for <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennifer-lopez-wears-bridal-white-for-marry-me-premiere\/\"><em>Marry Me<\/em><\/a>, and reflexively interpreted the film as an act of spite on the part of its star, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennifer-lopez-outfits-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon\/\">Jennifer Lopez<\/a>. \u201cOk, Hollywood,\u201d I imagined JLo saying with righteous exasperation, circa February 2020, \u201cyou wouldn\u2019t give me an <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/oscars-2022-the-full-list-of-nominations\/\">Oscar<\/a> for <em>Hustlers<\/em>, so I guess I\u2019m back to <em>this<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis\u201d meaning romantic comedies, a genre, we\u2019re constantly being told, that Hollywood has all but abandoned to <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kissing-booth-3-review\/\">Netflix<\/a> in favor of superhero universes and blockbuster action franchises. Lopez herself seemed to have abandoned the genre in recent years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marryme.movie\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Marry Me<\/em><\/a> marks the first true romantic comedy she has starred in since 2010\u2019s <em>The Back-up Plan<\/em>. Since then, she\u2019s done mostly thrillers and action movies alongside a couple comedies that, strictly speaking, I wouldn\u2019t classify as rom-coms.<\/p>\n<p><em>Marry Me<\/em> opens in theaters this week and will also be available to stream on Peacock. It would, of course, be unwise to judge the film without having seen it. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennifer-lopez-trailer-marry-me\/\">trailer<\/a> for<em> Marry Me<\/em>, which finds Lopez playing a pop mega star who impulsively marries a <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/and-just-like-that-lets-talk-about-carries-new-man\/\">humble high school teacher<\/a> (Owen Wilson) live onstage at a concert, feels\u2026<em>familiar<\/em>. It seems like a throwback to the kind of featherweight films she appeared in in the early 2000s. Which is surprising, considering the glowing reception she received\u2014and 1,000-percent deserved\u2014for her performance in <em>Hustlers<\/em>. That film felt like a turning point for JLo\u2014not to say a <em>comeback<\/em>. After languishing for two decades in critically disappointing movies, it seemed like a moment for her to reinvent herself as an actor. Surely, she would have her pick of more interesting projects. What would she do with her reinvigorated acting cred?<\/p>\n<p>Oh. A rom-com. Opposite Owen Wilson. Huh.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marry Me - Official Trailer [HD]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ebv9_rNb5Ig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to Lopez and producing partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, <em>Marry Me<\/em> was something of a passion project, a story she felt compelled to tell. \u201cShe had an opportunity to pull the curtain back and make a film about what it was like to live and to love in a glass bowl,\u201d Goldsmith-Thomas told <em>The New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/01\/movies\/jennifer-lopez-marry-me.html?action=click&amp;module=Well&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;section=Movies\" target=\"_blank\">recently<\/a>, \u201cto have your mistakes amplified and crucified across all platforms, and to ultimately find your way in spite of it. Add to that the ability to produce, and perform a soundtrack to that journey, and we\u2019d be fools not to make it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also, Lopez is, according to the <em>Times<\/em>, \u201ca hopeless romantic\u201d\u2014whatever that means. Is that why she keeps coming back to this genre?<\/p>\n<p>Her first romantic comedy was released at, arguably, the height of her cultural power. Released in 2001, <em>The Wedding Planner <\/em>debuted at number one at the box office the same week that Lopez\u2019s sophomore album reached number one on the <em>Billboard 200 <\/em>chart. The contrast between the two works is kind of stunning. Whereas the music on <em>J.Lo<\/em> is vibrant and sexy, a glittering and glowing amalgamation of Latin pop, R&amp;B and dance, <em>The Wedding Planner<\/em> is bleached to a pastel numbness. That extends to the curious and <em>very<\/em> 2001 decision to cast Lopez as a character of Italian rather than Puerto Rican descent. She plays Mary, the titular wedding planner, a woman so Type A that she eats take-out off of her best china in a house that looks like the kind of furniture showroom from which you would furnish your McMansion. Mary is the best damn wedding planner in the game\u2014until she accidentally falls in love with the fianc\u00e9 (Matthew McConaughey) of one of her clients.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49790\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-49790\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-159833387.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Lopez in &lt;i&gt;The Wedding Planner&lt;\/i&gt;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Lopez in <i>The Wedding Planner<\/i> (Photo: Columbia Pictures\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The film was not well received at the time, and indeed it is\u2026not great. It is aggressively basic and its plot contrivances strain credibility. As A.O. Scott noted in his review for the <em>New York Times<\/em>, it also squanders some really great performers, Kathy Najimy and Judy Greer most notably, as well as the opportunity to lob a more incisive critique at the wedding industrial complex. But then, I suppose that would turn off all the future bridezillas who are its target audience.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I wouldn\u2019t say <em>The Wedding Planner <\/em>was <em>painful <\/em>to watch, and that in itself taught me a key lesson when it comes to JLo\u2019s rom-coms: You have to give yourself over to the vanilla scented, slightly retrograde, politically anodyne, heterosexual world in which they take place. In short, you kind of have to turn off your brain for a little while. Which, actually, is kind of all I really want to do, ever, all the time. A bottle of <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/diana-musical-netflix-review\/\">Chardonnay<\/a> generally helps\u2014as it does in most of life.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez\u2019s next rom-com, 2002\u2019s <em>Maid in Manhattan<\/em>, is, for my money, a significant improvement. I won\u2019t argue with the critics who thought this modern-day Cinderella story was blandly formulaic. Of course it is! It\u2019s literally based on <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/billy-porter-cinderella-interview\/\"><em>Cinderella<\/em><\/a>! But if a romantic comedy lives and dies by the charm and relatability of its heroine, this one at least has a pulse. Lopez plays Marisa, a single mother who lives in the Bronx and commutes every day to her job as a maid at a tony Midtown hotel, where she dreams of one day becoming a manager. But, through a series of mishaps, she is mistaken for one of the hotel\u2019s guests (pour one out for the late Natasha Richardson) by dashing New York senatorial candidate Chris Marshall (Ralph Fiennes). The two fall in love, but their differing backgrounds and Marisa\u2019s ultimately harmless deception complicate matters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49791\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-49791\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-09-at-19-53-52-Maid-in-Manhattan-2002-e1644513070236.png?w=1024\" alt=\"Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes in &lt;i&gt;Maid in Manhattan&lt;\/i&gt;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes in <i>Maid in Manhattan<\/i> (Photo: courtesy Columbia Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now, I don\u2019t want to imply that Lopez is any more believable as a chambermaid from the Bronx than she is as a San Francisco wedding planner. But Marisa is just an infinitely more likeable character than Mary. She\u2019s tough, she\u2019s smart, she\u2019s unpretentious. For all JLo looks like a kajillion bucks in megawatt glamor mode wearing a Harry Winston wreath necklace to a gala with Fiennes\u2019s character, I\u2019d almost rather hang out with Marisa and her co-workers in the hotel employee locker room. And wanting to hang out with the heroine is pretty essential for a rom-com.<\/p>\n<p>Other things <em>Maid in Manhattan<\/em> has going for it: a perfunctory engagement with class and politics\u2014I mean, it\u2019s better than nothing\u2014and a pretty outstanding roster of supporting characters. Alongside Richardson, you\u2019ve got Bob Hoskins, Frances Conroy, Amy-effing-Sedaris and that bald guy that everyone is horny for lately. (It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/stanley-tucci-cancer\/\">Stanley Tucci<\/a>.) Even the random kleptomaniacal French sisters are delightful, and add to the sense of this hotel being a quirky world all its own.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s another thing I\u2019ll say for JLo: say what you will about her movies, but she\u2019s worked with a ton of extremely wonderful actors. In her next two rom-coms alone\u20142004\u2019s <em>Shall We Dance<\/em> and 2005\u2019s <em>Monster-in-Law<\/em>\u2014she played opposite Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jane-fonda-on-what-she-learned-about-being-single\/\">Jane Fonda<\/a>! But she also tends to be surrounded by some of the best character actors in the business: Wanda Sykes, Adam Scott, Will Arnett, Elaine Stritch! In <em>The Back-up Plan<\/em>, we get Melissa McCarthy as a spacey, earth mamma type doula, the wonderful Michaela Watkins as the BFF with zero filter and Anthony Anderson as a playground dad with same.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49792\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-49792\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-10-at-12-18-14-The-Back-up-Plan-2010-e1644513602234.png?w=1024\" alt=\"Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Loughlin in &lt;i&gt;The Back-up Plan&lt;\/i&gt;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Lopez and Alex O&#8217;Loughlin in <i>The Back-up Plan<\/i> (Photo: courtesy of Sony Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>The Back-up Plan<\/em> represents something of a coda to the original JLo rom-com era. From 2001 to 2005 she starred in one per year. Five years, two albums, one co-headlining tour with then husband Marc Anthony and a few disappointing dramas later, she returned to the romantic comedy with this film about a woman trying to have a baby <em>and<\/em> a boyfriend. Lopez plays Manhattan pet shop owner and former finance lady (that accounts for all her money) Zoe, who has just been artificially inseminated when she meets and falls in love with the very sexy Stan (Alex O\u2019Loughlin). The usual complications ensue.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Back-up Plan<\/em> is a very dumb movie. O\u2019Loughlin\u2019s character is possibly the worst rom-com leading man ever\u2014although now I\u2019m wondering if his uncertainty and anxiety and general messiness is maybe an inversion of the standard trope of the zanily imperfect woman and the stable stoic man. Either way, he just doesn\u2019t work. JLo, meanwhile, seems to be trying for a looser, madcap kind of performance. It doesn\u2019t entirely work either, but as always, the JLo charm remains strong.<\/p>\n<p>Now, none of these are <em>great<\/em> films. A few of them are actually quite bad. But, for the most part, they are genuinely watchable, even enjoyable. And then there\u2019s <em>Gigli<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet mother of f*ck, <em>Gigli<\/em>! You\u2019ve no doubt heard about how awful this 2003 <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/bennifer-is-back-i-dont-know-about-you-but-im-feeling-2002\/\">Bennifer<\/a> debacle is. But, you know, you still think, <em>This is a movie that was made and released. Surely people who know about movies signed off on it. Surely it must resemble something like a watchable movie. <\/em>Well, you\u2019re wrong. <em>Gigli <\/em>reminds me of when high school drama students have to write and perform their own one-act plays. It\u2019s like, someone put <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/ben-affleck-why-jennifer-lopez-broke-up\/\">Ben Affleck<\/a> and Jennifer Lopez in a room and told them to do as much acting at each other as possible without conveying anything resembling actual interpersonal behavior. <em>Jesus<\/em>, I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s even worth describing <em>Gigli<\/em> except to say that, once again, JLo\u2019s natural charisma shines through. She\u2019s generally at her best when she\u2019s playing tough but warm, and that\u2019s what she\u2019s doing here as a\u2014<em>sigh<\/em>\u2014sexy \u201clesbian\u201d mob enforcer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49793\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-49793\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-10-at-12-27-19-Gigli-2003-e1644514209352.png?w=1024\" alt=\"Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in Gigli\" width=\"1024\" height=\"599\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in <i>Gigli<\/i> (Photo: courtesy Sony Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, having watched what I think we can safely say is Jennifer Lopez\u2019s entire rom-com cannon up to this point, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m much closer to a unifying theory of the JLo rom-com, or of the JLo rom-com heroine.<\/p>\n<p><em>Variety <\/em>once described Lopez as \u201cimperious,\u201d and she works hard in her rom-coms to counter that perception, to appear relaxed, down to earth, like a relatable human being rather than an untouchable diva. I wouldn\u2019t say she fails across the board. She is a talented and charismatic performer. And yet, in none of these movies do we really get to see what\u2019s behind the veneer. She is never not perfectly made-up, her hair truly the best hair anyone has ever seen on film. There\u2019s a hilarious scene in <em>The Wedding Planner<\/em> when Mary catches her reflection in a mirror after being rescued by Dr. Matthew McConaughey. She sees that her hair is slightly mussed and panics. It\u2019s hilarious, not because it humanizes Mary or reveals anything about her rigid standards for herself and others, but because JLo\u2019s version of disheveled is still laughably perfect. Seriously, it\u2019s like three hairs out of place! She is, in every film, either unwilling or incapable of not <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennifer-lopez-press-tour-coats-nyc\/\">appearing flawless<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other observations: JLo is always paired with white guys in these films. And, with the exception of Affleck, there seems to be a distinct downward arc from McConaughey, an actual movie star, to blandly handsome, vaguely familiar looking actors as her love interests. Interpret all of that as you will.<\/p>\n<p>She also seems to have <em>terrible <\/em>judgement when it come to the film projects she chooses. The phrase \u201cthe film was not well-received\u201d appears in the Wikipedia entry for almost <em>all<\/em> of her films\u2014not just the rom-coms!<\/p>\n<p>Part of me wants to write these films off as largely cynical endeavors; lazily produced multiplex crap aimed at a demographic that Hollywood didn\u2019t think much of, and probably still doesn\u2019t. I\u2019d almost rather imagine Lopez in this formulation as someone who is more invested in the paycheck than the script. I mean, otherwise we must assume that she thinks these movies are <em>good<\/em>, and I have to believe she is smarter than that.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49795\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-49795\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/02\/image2-e1644514342752.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Jennifer Lopez in Marry Me\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Lopez in <i>Marry Me<\/i> (Photo: courtesy Universal Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the other hand, maybe she\u2019s smart enough to understand that \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cenjoyable\u201d aren\u2019t always the same thing. Someone asked me recently whether any of the films <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/oscars-2022-the-full-list-of-nominations\/\">nominated<\/a> for Best Picture Oscars this year are actually <em>fun<\/em>, feel-good type movies, and I had to concede that, no, they weren\u2019t, not really. And I realized that, despite not really thinking any of JLo\u2019s rom-coms were actually <em>good<\/em> films\u2014in the sense that they were particularly profound or revealed anything noteworthy about the human condition\u2014I actually had a thoroughly pleasant time drinking cheap white wine and watching these inconsequential movies. In an age when even TV demands your undivided attention with its puzzle box dramas and auteur sit-coms, I can\u2019t tell you how nice it was not to feel like I couldn\u2019t look at my bloody phone while watching <em>The Back-up Plan<\/em>, etc.!<\/p>\n<p>Whether she\u2019s aiming to be taken seriously as an actor or just wants to get paid a lot of money to be the star of a movie in which she gets to wear pretty clothes, ultimately\u2014and I assume this goes without saying\u2014Jennifer Lopez doesn\u2019t owe me or the <em>New York Times<\/em> or anyone else an explanation as to why she chooses the projects she does. Following <em>Marry Me<\/em>, she will next star opposite Josh Duhamel in another rom-com. Due out in June, the more action-oriented <em>Shotgun Wedding<\/em> finds Lopez playing a bride whose entire wedding gets taken hostage. It\u2019s co-written by <em>New Girl <\/em>creator Liz Meriwether and S\u00f4nia Braga, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennifer-coolidge-dated-two-men-at-once\/\">Jennifer Coolidge<\/a>, Cheech Marin, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/lenny-kravitz-new-face-of-saint-laurent\/\">Lenny Kravitz<\/a> and D\u2019Arcy Carden all co-star! It sounds like a freakin\u2019 blast!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":49789,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,38,3324,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What I Learned From Watching All of Jennifer Lopez\u2019s Rom-Coms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Recently, I watched what I consider to be Jennifer Lopez\u2019s entire rom-com cannon up to this point in an effort to\u2026well, if I\u2019m honest, I\u2019m not entirely sure why.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennifer-lopez-jlo-romcom-marry-me\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" 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