Kathleen Murphy writes:
A Valentine Day's gift swaddled in sanitized Saran wrap, The Vow is a pretty package of sweets, sealed off from the corrupting air of reality. It will encourage susceptible audiences—women, to be precise—to believe that they've been party to Big Emotions, the kind that leave a pleasant if transient glow. Think of The Vow as vanilla Valium, a feel-good cure for a Blue Valentine's hard truths about everlasting love.
Inspired by a true story, this weepie stars hunky Channing Tatum (Dear John) and perky Rachel McAdams (The Notebook), both veterans of the lucrative Nicholas Sparks genre of lovers cruelly separated by fate and whatnot. Here, in a non-Sparksian script, brain damage and amnesia do the trick.
http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-critic-reviews/the-vow.3/#Review_0
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