Treacly 'Vow' Tugs at the Heart

Treacly 'Vow' Tugs at the Heart

SPOTLIGHT Saturday-Sunday, Feb. 11-12, 2012 | Editor: Eli Pace | 270-887-3235 | [email protected] AT THE MOVIES n ASSOCIATED PRESS In this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, (from left) Josh Hutcherson, Luis Guzman, Vanessa Hudgens and Dwayne Johnson are shown in a scene from “Jour- ney 2: The Mysterious Island.” ASSOCIATED PRESS In this image released by Columbia Pictures, Rachel McAdams (left) and Channing Tatum are shown in a scene from “The Vow.” ‘Journey 2’ descends Treacly ‘Vow’ tugs at the heart ‘Verne’s isle in 3-D muck (AP) — There’s little mystery to this island. This 3-D sort-of sequel wears its formula- BY CHRISTY LEMIRE That might have offered an in- life, by the way, isn’t nearly so well for-dollars purpose with pride, delivering a AP MOVIE CRITIC triguing little wrinkle. He loves her fleshed-out. His entire purpose dash of cinematic nonsense that represents fiercely and madly and deeply and seems to be the service of this Hollywood calculation at its shrewdest and Rachel McAdams wakes up in all those intense proclamations woman.) most shameless. the hospital after a serious car ac- meant to make the teen girls in the Give some credit to screenwrit- cident with no memory of the past audience swoon. He’s willing to ers Abby Kohn and Marc Silver- Again poking Jules Verne’s remains with five years of her life and discovers fight for her, to help her retrace stein (“He’s Just Not That Into a sharp stick, the producers of the 2008 hit she’s married to Channing Tatum, how they met and what their life to- You”) and Jason Katims: They re- “Journey to the Center of the Earth” pres- lives in a spacious, boho-chic loft gether was like in hopes of jogging main faithful to the real-life story ent their second modern take on the 19th- and has a successful career as a her memory. He’s even prepared to and don’t magically restore Paige’s century fantasist’s wild stories. And Chicago artist. withstand the condescension and memories. But the smug parents “Mysterious Island” is every bit the amuse- That wouldn’t suck, right? disapproval of her wealthy parents and the jilted ex-fiancé (Scott ment park ride cloaked as a movie that the Nevertheless, she must reject (Sam Neill and Jessica Lange), who Speedman) who’s all too happy to first “Journey” was, the new flick stranding this foreign existence in her con- wanted her to become a lawyer and rekindle their old romance feel a misfit band of adventurers on Verne’s lost fused state because the plot of from whom she’s been estranged more like pat devices than real ob- island of freakish creatures. “The Vow” requires some conflict. all this time. But he looks like Paul stacles to ultimate happiness. Dwayne Johnson stars this time as step- This old-fashioned amnesia tale Giamatti. (Lange, who won an Emmy for dad to a youth (Josh Hutcherson, reprising would seem totally implausible starring in Sucsy’s “Grey Gar- Instead, “The Vow” serves as a his role from the first movie) whose family and manufactured for maximum series of precise if obvious mo- dens” on HBO, does have one pow- melodrama; as it turns out, direc- ments and emotional cues we must erful moment of truth that helps has discovered Verne’s sci-fi stories were tor Michael Sucsy’s film is indeed endure en route to the inevitable Paige piece together her past.) true. based on a true story. But it might reconciliation, complete with an It’s a nice idea: experiencing Joining them as they rush from giant have been even more compelling intrusively heart-tugging score what it’s like to fall in love all over lizards and electric eels are Michael Caine, with some different casting. and too much explanatory again for the first time. McAdams Luis Guzman and Vanessa Hudgens. McAdams, as the perplexed Paige, voiceover from Tatum. This in- and Tatum sometimes make the Director Brad Peyton oversees a collec- is her usual likable self and cludes flashbacks to Paige and execution of it more tolerable than tion of impressive but annoying visuals, Tatum, as Leo, once again proves Leo’s meet-cute at the DMV, the it should be, but not often enough. serving up gimmicky 3-D that’s continually he’s an actor of greater depth than chocolates they shared on their “The Vow,” a Sony Screen Gems trying to poke things in your eye. PG for his hunky good looks might sug- first date, the wacky, eclectic release, is rated PG-13 for an acci- some adventure action and brief mild lan- gest. friends and the secret wedding dent scene, sexual content, partial guage. 94 minutes. One and a half stars out But what if Paige woke up and they staged amid the paintings at nudity and some language. 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