Tatum delivers commendable performance in 'Dear John'
Issue date: 2/9/10 Section: Arts & Society
By Kate McNaboe
Staff Writer
Letter #108: Dear John (a.k.a. Channing Tatum),
We did not think it was possible, but you have proven us wrong by reaching entirely new levels of hotness. Your incredibly defined back and shoulders, strong and sexy jaw, and truly piercing green eyes make Dear John more than worth the obscene price of movies these days. We have come to the conclusion that you must divorce Step Up co-star Jenna Dewan immediately in order to fulfill all of our wildest fantasies.
Love,
Every Heterosexual Female on the Planet
P.S. You would be even more gorgeous if you stopped doing that silly thing with your hair - you should not have bangs.
Yes, girls - and guys, if you can admit to wanting to go see it - Dear John is a great movie. While Tatum's ridiculous attractiveness is the most appealing aspect, the storyline is actually pretty good. This dramatic love story is definitely much more successful than the last Nicholas Sparks novel-turned-movie attempt, Nights in Rodanthe, with Richard Gere and Diane Lane, but it did not quite reach Notebook status. The movie pulls out all the stops - love, sex, war, autism, cancer - making it the epitome of a tearjerker.
Dear John starts off with a predictable spring break fling between John Tyree (Tatum) and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) while he is on leave from the Army. "Two weeks, that's all it took for me to fall in love with you," Savannah writes in her first letter to John when he is back with the Special Forces and she is back at school. "But what's a year apart when you've had the two weeks we had together?" (Although two weeks is a bit long for a college spring break, no?)
And what a lovely two weeks it was - the scenes of the young lovebirds frolicking along the beach together and eating dinner with John's oddball of a father (Richard Jenkins) are nauseatingly cute. But, of course, they are shadowed with a sense of impending doom because everyone knows that the two must eventually part due to circumstances.
Staff Writer
Letter #108: Dear John (a.k.a. Channing Tatum),
We did not think it was possible, but you have proven us wrong by reaching entirely new levels of hotness. Your incredibly defined back and shoulders, strong and sexy jaw, and truly piercing green eyes make Dear John more than worth the obscene price of movies these days. We have come to the conclusion that you must divorce Step Up co-star Jenna Dewan immediately in order to fulfill all of our wildest fantasies.
Love,
Every Heterosexual Female on the Planet
P.S. You would be even more gorgeous if you stopped doing that silly thing with your hair - you should not have bangs.
Yes, girls - and guys, if you can admit to wanting to go see it - Dear John is a great movie. While Tatum's ridiculous attractiveness is the most appealing aspect, the storyline is actually pretty good. This dramatic love story is definitely much more successful than the last Nicholas Sparks novel-turned-movie attempt, Nights in Rodanthe, with Richard Gere and Diane Lane, but it did not quite reach Notebook status. The movie pulls out all the stops - love, sex, war, autism, cancer - making it the epitome of a tearjerker.
Dear John starts off with a predictable spring break fling between John Tyree (Tatum) and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) while he is on leave from the Army. "Two weeks, that's all it took for me to fall in love with you," Savannah writes in her first letter to John when he is back with the Special Forces and she is back at school. "But what's a year apart when you've had the two weeks we had together?" (Although two weeks is a bit long for a college spring break, no?)
And what a lovely two weeks it was - the scenes of the young lovebirds frolicking along the beach together and eating dinner with John's oddball of a father (Richard Jenkins) are nauseatingly cute. But, of course, they are shadowed with a sense of impending doom because everyone knows that the two must eventually part due to circumstances.
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