7 hilariously awful reviews of The Notebook which prove film critics know nothing

Back in the early days of 2004, the sector didn't recognise that the quickly-to-be released movie model of Nicholas Sparks novel The Notebook might come to be one of the maximum favoured current-day rom-coms going.

And it appears that evidently even upon looking the film, a few critics wouldn't have predicted it either. Here are a number of the, let's assume... less favourable critiques of the film when it first came out. Oh, how incorrect they were...

Ouch

"Mercilessly plodding pacing, elaborate man or woman motivations and a essential lack of chemistry among the 2 superstar-crossed fanatics in question don't do plenty to assist its motive." - Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter

What did Nicholas Sparks ever do to you?

"I actually have the equal allergic reaction to this open faucet of tear-jerking swill as I do to the 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel that stimulated it." - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Slightly harsh

"From the primary smooth piano that accompanies white geese flying towards a humongous orange sunset, The Notebook racks up the sugary clichés until you're screaming for mercy." - Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly

Uncalled for

"The film no longer most effective methods a level of shamelessness you have to see to disbelieve, it does it in a way it is each inept and crass." - Charles Taylor, Salon.Com

Bit mean

"[It] has a single intention: to prod your tear ducts to open up. It could be very, excellent at this venture. Whether The Notebook is ideal in another respect is a bit extra complex." - M.E. Russell, Portland Oregonian

Play properly

"The Notebook is meant to be a romantic weepy, and you will shed tears - however most effective from the regular and hard effort of looking to control your gag reflex." - Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Come on, it is now not that terrible

"Two hours of the worst sort of sentimental sap." - Jack Matthews, New York Daily News

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