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It is kind of bonkers that someone who hasn’t released a full-length album in 10 years is going all out with a spectacle of a movie about herself.

But that’s so J-Lo.

“Please fucking watch this batshit trailer,” a person pleaded on X when Jennifer Lopez first announced her musical movie masterpiece This Is Me…Now: A Love Story. Another praised Lopez’s dramatic narration, while others commented on the seemingly massive budget. One person said it best: “Starring as yourself in your own musical about your life should be one of the goals, like, this is kind of everything”, per The Daily Beast, who also noted the movie as ‘bonkers’.

Everyone who saw the teaser and/or trailer for this semi-autobiographical movie musical fantasia fever dream inspired by the “heart, soul, dreams” of the music superstar will have asked themselves “What the hell is this?” – and for good reason.

You’d be forgiven for being shocked by the film’s trailer, which I previously described as Cloud Atlas-meets-RRR, put into a Marvel Cinematic Universe blender and seemingly directed by Martin Scorsese when he was in his Hugo era. It is genuinely jarring, an unexpected level of visual ambition from an artist who has not released a full-length album since 2014. By just the teaser alone, it was clear that J.Lo was looking to make up for lost time and catch up to her pop peers with a spectacle all her own.

J-Lo clearly has a lot to say, and she wanted to tell her story outside of what was covered in her 2022 documentary Halftime or by decades of tabloid scrutiny. The YouTube description of the trailer says ‘This panorama is an introspective retrospective of Jennifer’s resilient heart’.

The publication noted that the movie is not really meant to make money as it is J-Lo’s passion project.

The film also has some huge names attached, like Keke Palmer, Sofía Vergara, Jennifer Lewis, Kim Petras, Trevor Noah, and (of course) Mr. J.Lo and the film’s co-writer himself, Ben Affleck.

This is the kind of showcase that needs to be seen to be believed:

The teaser trailer is just as wacky:

And to really rub in the self-indulged weirdness, ‘J. L’Odysseus’ perfermed the titular track for SNL:

Yes, This Is Me…Now – the album – is dropping in conjunction with the movie musical, which will hit Prime Video on February 16 – just after V-Day.

[source:dailybeast]