After this magical prelude, the story cuts to J. Lo on the again of a bike, her face pure bliss as she holds tightly to the motive force whereas the 2 careen down a picturesque mountainous beachscape. That’s till the bike crashes, the 2 separate, and the image crumbles, leaving Lopez stranded in an apocalyptic steampunk coronary heart manufacturing unit. Right here we get the movie’s first musical interlude “Hearts and Flowers,” its lyrics as tacky and earnest as Lopez’s narration. “I made it by means of the rain, the trauma and the ache,” she sings as she and the manufacturing unit employees — styled a la Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” — frenetically work to refill the breaking steel coronary heart with the petals of pink flowers, all which appear to have wilted away.
Though Lopez’s vocals have somewhat an excessive amount of autotune for my style, her dance strikes are as energetic and crisp as ever. Within the sequence set to the music “Rebound,” {couples} residing in a glass home are certain to one another with items of lengthy, coloured fabric. After they draw back, the material yanks them again collectively like yo-yos, in choreography within the Tanztheater fashion pioneered by the late German fashionable dancer Pina Bausch. One other sequence set in a gaggle remedy session attracts inspiration from “Mein Herr” from “Cabaret,” with Lopez bringing a stripped-down emotional rawness to the choreography.
The movie weaves backwards and forwards between these dreamlike sequences set to tracks from her new album, remedy periods Lopez has together with her good pal Fats Joe, and a few actually unhinged moments with a gaggle of astrological stars (performed by literal stars Jane Fonda, Submit Malone, Keke Palmer, Jennifer Lewis, Kim Petras, Jay Shetty, Sofia Vergara, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Trevor Noah, and Sadhguru) referred to as the Zodiacal Council. Though every star performs one of many corresponding Zodiac indicators, hilariously there is no such thing as a illustration for Aquarius or Capricorn. I will let the astrology girlies determine that one out. Of those vignettes those with Fats Joe work the perfect because of his calming power and the robust rapport after many years {of professional} collaborations and friendship. Oscar-nominee Paul Raci additionally brings his steadfast presence to one of many extra profitable vignettes because the chief of a Romantics Nameless group remedy session.