I just threw up a little in my mouth

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2007)

I'm sorry. This movie is one of THE Chick Flicks of our time, and I just hated it. I get angry when people begin to discuss it at parties. My eyes flash and roll, my pulse quickens, and my breath whooshes out in indignation. Rachel McAdams was absolutely brilliant in "Mean Girls", but she had no place in this role. Adorable dimples are not a good enough reason for casting. Ryan Gosling was appropriately creepy in "Murder by Numbers", but again, not right for this romantic role. Drippy dialog and weak acting aside, here was my main problem with the movie. He never tried to find her. Why did he send the letters to her home (where her disapproving mother was) instead of to her at school? Why did he never try to visit her at school or write to her at school? Why did she never try to write to him the entire time she was away at school? I could not buy the greatest love story of all times from these two, because they didn't even try. And unfortunately, neither actor won me over through the plot flaws.