We go to flashbacks, and as John enfolds Savannah in his big, beautiful arms, with Sept. Tatum is John Tyree, a special-forces soldier madly in love with chaste, do-gooder college student Savannah (Amanda Seyfried), whom he met during a two-week leave in the spring of 2001. When Dear John starts, Channing Tatum looks like the likely Ali since he's flat on his back in a soldier's uniform, his blood seeping into a mud puddle. Either way, the guiding hand of Erich Segal is always present, and the cast must include an Ali MacGraw type, someone famous taking a mortal or psychological hit for the sake of getting our hankies wet. Sometimes it's a mudslide ( Nights in Rodanthe, the worst of the five) or a secret illness ( A Walk to Remember, the sweetest) or class warfare ( The Notebook, the sexiest). That only happened in Message in a Bottle, in which Kevin Costner was sacrificed, despite his considerable star power. Tragedy does not always arrive by boat, of course. A wistful love story, tender feelings recorded in letters or notebooks and read aloud and then, just as you're wondering what kind of a gown the prospective bride or promgoer will pick out, someone vital to the story will bonk his head, fall off a boat and die.
Follow John is the fifth of Nicholas Sparks' books to be turned into a movie, which means that even if you haven't read a word of his novels, if you are a regular moviegoer you know what to expect.
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