The Chickiest Chick Flick I've Ever Seen.

Rating: 3/10 (15 January 2008)

As a guy, I can say parts of this movie were just painful to sit through. Don't be turned off by that first sentence thinking this is going to be a biased review, there's reason why it was painful and it's not just because I'm a guy.
There were some entertaining points, but as a whole, it was far too sentimental to feel genuine. Just about every other scene is a flashback to the dead husband where all the girls in the audience are supposed to let out a sympathetic, "Awwww," but if you're a movie buff that can tell when a movie is just overdoing it, those scenes become incredibly tedious. Some of them seem to go on forever, and all they do is show something we already know: She misses her husband.
Well DUH! We get it, already, let's move on with the story. The problem is that half the story is that one fact. The main character misses her husband. Each letter brings about a similar flashback which is again tedious if you're looking for something to actually happen in terms of plot, or some further realization about the characters. The flashbacks don't reveal anything of significance- When they met isn't really that important by the last fifteen minutes of the movie.
The whole time I felt like I was watching a movie made specifically to get sentimental feelings from the audience, but it kept harping on the same points so that those points got in the way of the story and slowed things down to a dull shuffle. Most "chick flicks" have some redeeming qualities for men dragged along by their girlfriends-- A sense of humor that they can laugh along with or a plot that includes a decent male character that has a role other than to bring jealousy out of the female audience. While this movie has a sense of humor, it's far too "cute" to be redeeming for the typical male population. The plot is centered around women, and I think it's safe to say that the movie is aimed only at women.
At two hours and six minutes, the thing just drags by the end. I found myself studying my watch a good half an hour before it was over.
So in summary, if you're a guy and you're girlfriend wants to take you to this, you'll probably be trying not to let out snide remarks the whole time, so tell her she should bring her girlfriends to see it instead, as you'll just ruin it. And girls, if you're looking for a sad movie that has a decent sense of "cutesy" humor, go with your girlfriends, but please, spare your man the trouble of trying to sit through it.