The Vow

ATTENTION: MOVIE SPOILERS INCLUDED!!

The Vow

February 22 2012

It is rare I get to go to the movie theatre on a Wednesday night so when my friend suggested it I was stoked!

My opinion:

4 out of 5 bags of popcorn for the overall movie

4 out of 5 boxes of milk duds for my personal entertainment

My suggestion: Would be a good rental or a great date night movie in the theatre

The gist: Paige (Rachel McAdams) and Leo (Channing Tatum) are a married couple deeply in love with one another. When a car accident leaves Paige with severe memory loss Leo must try to make her fall in love with him again. Her last memory is before she met him and when she was a very different person from who she is today.

I had no idea what to expect from this movie. Honestly, I wasn’t all that excited to see if after seeing the trailers. It seemed like another Nicholas Sparks –type movie which aren’t my favorite. Plus I am a little over Rachel McAdams. I can admit that I WAS WRONG! In this case, the trailers did not do it justice….not even close. The story line is nothing too complicated, Paige loses her memory and Leo who is deeply in love with Paige has to convince her that they are meant to be together. Add Paige’s family, which hasn’t been a part of her life and has never even met Leo and you have a whole different kind of story. Then add in an ex-fiancé’ still clearly in love with Pagie. Trying to figure out what drove her and her family apart and why she changed her life around was the best part of the movie.

Sure the love story was pretty good too. Channing Tatum is extremely good looking…okay he a real hottie and I kept wondering why she wasn’t falling head over heels for him. He does everything to try and win her heart back, but it just ends up confusing her more. As she begins to finally start to feel something for him the ex-fiance and the family get in the way. I won’t give too much more away, but I will say it had the right ending.