It would be really easy to make fun of Jennifer Lopez's new movie Enough thanks to its ridiculously unfortunate title:

• I had ENOUGH just after seeing the trailer.

• It's all ENOUGH to make you become violently ill.

• The film is so long, you'll be screaming "ENOUGH!" way before it's over.

• Judging from the size of her dumper, I'd say J. Lo can't get ENOUGH Cheetos.

But we're not the kind of rag that would stoop to such low levels. Besides, the film does a pretty good job of mocking itself.  For starters, anyone who has seen Enough's trailer already knows exactly what's going to happen, right down to the final minutes (it's May's second most predictable film, after Attack of the Clones).  The story is also as unoriginal as they come, already having been recycled more times than I'd care to count.

Enough is about a young woman whose formerly wonderful husband starts to beat the stuffing out of her.  She tries to get out of the relationship, and he pummels her even harder.  Killing him is the only way out, because "self defense is not murder."  Didn't Julia already pull this shit a while back? Didn't Ashley try it even more recently than that?  Hey, didn't Farrah do it before either of those two?

Lopez (Angel Eyes) plays greasy spoon waitress Slim, who, as the film opens, meets and falls for Mitch (Bill Campbell, Once and Again), the wealthy owner of a construction company.  They marry, have a child, but a few years into the marriage Slim discovers Mitch is cheating on her.  When confronted, he punches her in the head.  Slim tries to escape with the little girl (Providence's Tessa Allen), but Mitch is well-connected and is always able to track her down.  It all leads up to the inevitable conclusion, in which Slim trains (a la Rocky) to cave Mitch's head in like a tin can.

Like I said, we've already seen all of this in the trailer (which, at two minutes, was barely tolerable, so imagine what two hours would be like), but there's a lot of stuff you'll see only if you go to the theatre and sit amongst the mouthbreathers for whom this film was made.  Enough starts with cute title cards that introduce the early segments of the film, then, without warning, they completely vanish.  The scenes with these title cards were, I think, supposed to flesh out the evolution of Slim and Mitch's relationship, but this would have been much more effective (and a whole lot shorter) if they had used a photo montage over the opening credits.  Does it matter that Mitch used to be nice?  He's a monster now – isn't that enough to make us hate him?

The trailer also does not show Enough's two most unintentionally funny moments.  The first occurs when Slim tries to grab the kid and make a break for it back when they're both still living with Mitch.  She decides the best time to do this isn't while Mitch is at work, but instead attempts it in the middle of the night as he sleeps next to her.  The second is during the big finale, when Mitch has Slim in a precarious situation and she presses a button on her watch, releasing a foggy cloud a la the Penguin in those old Batman shows.  I also dug that Lopez's character was named Slim, and would bet lots and lots of money that the egocentric star insisted on this name for her character.

Too cheesy for even a Lifetime Network movie, Enough riles up the audience (the boobs at the screening I attended were angrily barking out the many possible ways Slim should beat Mitch), but it's also going to put dangerous thoughts into the minds of women who deservedly get smacked around for not keeping their yaps shut, or for not having a hot meal on the table when their man comes home from work.  What?  Ow!  Stop hitting me!

1:55 –

for intense scenes of domestic violence, some sensuality and language