The Vow

Nick Pinkerton / Village Voice
Feb 10, 2012
The Vow makes the least of its concept, refusing to acknowledge that a love need not be perfect to merit holding on to.

Lisa Schwarzbaum / Entertainment Weekly
Feb 10, 2012
The two stars look dewy and glossy and unexceptional, bound together less by chemistry than by the ministrations of a hard-working costume designer.

Richard Roeper / Richard Roeper.com
Feb 10, 2012
'The Vow' is inspired by a true and wonderful story, but that doesn't make the fictionalized version any less ridiculous.

Joseph M. Amodio / Newsday
Feb 10, 2012
Tatum is unusually expressive; Speedman, both hiss-worthy and sympathetic. But McAdams is the real draw.

Stephen Whitty / Newark Star-Ledger
Feb 10, 2012
As usual, Channing Tatum looks sweet and dull and, in most scenes, slightly confused.

Jennie Punter / Globe and Mail
Feb 10, 2012
The kind of featherweight fare that is enjoyed in the moment and forgotten soon after the end credits roll.

Roger Ebert / Chicago Sun-Times
Feb 10, 2012
It's pleasant enough as a date movie, but that's all.

Sara Stewart / New York Post
Feb 10, 2012
Sucsy works within the trappings of a typical cheesy romance but finds realism in the details and the banter.

Stephanie Merry / Washington Post
Feb 10, 2012
It's a shame things are so black and white, because the movie has more promise - and more laughs - than trailers suggest.

James Berardinelli / ReelViews
Feb 10, 2012
This film, with its would-be crowd-pleasing contrivances and rote adherence to formula, offers almost no redeeming characteristics.

William Goss / Film.com
Feb 10, 2012
More than willing to comfort anyone with a fuzzy grasp on real-world romance that the pretty people will make it through somehow, with no scars too deep.

Louis B. Parks / San Francisco Chronicle
Feb 09, 2012
"The Vow" is a cinematic box of candy wrapped in bright red cellophane. Like any box of chocolates, you have to bite a lot of bad centers to get to the few good ones.

Betsy Sharkey / Los Angeles Times
Feb 09, 2012
This is a movie that leaves you wanting more. To care more, to cry more, to love more.

Claudia Puig / USA Today
Feb 09, 2012
The Vow promises tried-and-true rom-com formula and delivers, treading in sappy, cliche-ridden turf.

Linda Barnard / Toronto Star
Feb 09, 2012
Not even Channing Tatum's bare bum, clearly a Hail Mary pass lobbed at the ladies in the theatre, can distract from the turgidly sappy goings on in The Vow.

Colin Covert / Minneapolis Star Tribune
Feb 09, 2012
The best thing in the film is McAdams, who moves through her post-amnesia scenes with a plausible mix of good humor and wariness.

A.O. Scott / New York Times
Feb 09, 2012
The movie's commitment to the blandest possible presentation of its central problem starts to seem perverse after a while.

Kathleen Murphy / MSN Movies
Feb 09, 2012
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.

Steven Rea / Philadelphia Inquirer
Feb 09, 2012
McAdams and Tatum aren't exactly thespian heavyweights, but even if they were, there isn't much they can do with this hokey melodrama...

Ty Burr / Boston Globe
Feb 09, 2012
It's quite watchable date-night cheese - the kind of movie you can simultaneously snort at and enjoy.

The Vow Cast:

• Channing Tatum
• Jessica Lange
• Rachel McAdams
• Sam Neill
• Scott Speedman