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.
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