An endearing love story for dumb people. *Spoilers Herein!*

Rating: Null/10 (29 June 2006)

Everyone seems to like this movie-- I don't get it.
I could go into detail about how predictable, and pathetically sappy this film is.. I won't, nobody seems to agree anyways.
I will say this though, The Notebook is the quintessential romantic comedy of the 21st century. Let's see, first of all, the plot leaves nothing to the imagination. Rich girl, poor guy drawn apart because of meddling parents and a burgeoning class system? Where have we seen this before? It's EVERYWHERE, (including the mother of all bad movies, Titanic).
And the plot turns. Like oh my GOD, first Duke is some random man reading a book.. then he's NOAH.. then Allie has some sort of bizarre, (totally Hollywood) memory problem.. (Oh gee!) Then Noah has some sort of health problem that is killing him... yadda yadda yadda, "our love is strong enough to create miracles," pardon me while I throw up in my mouth a bit.
Why is this the quintessential movie of 2004? It requires no intellect or artistic merit to enjoy this film. You are given a very overdone story line (with a few extra punchy twists and of course, different names) and nothing but extra cheese.
Reading the past few movie reviews for this film have made me lose faith in the human race. Thanks.