Silly, sappy, sentimental claptrap.
What a stupid, sentimental movie - syrupy enough to send any viewer into a diabetic coma. Entirely formulaic and predictable. There was zero chemistry between the beautiful Katherine Heigl and her Bible-fondling doofus of a husband. All that "God answers prayers" stuff was over-the-top silly. The dialogue could have been written by a love sick 15 year old fattened on a steady diet of Harlequin romances.
Also, these quasi-period pieces where the characters keep saying “Okay” drive me up a wall. I guess they've never heard of the concept of "anachronisms."
Next, that scene where the dumbo Marty character wanders out to inexplicably plant herself next to a horse in a blinding blizzard puzzled me. What was her motivation to act like such a fool? Just because she thinks it’s her dead husband’s horse? And why didn’t her current husband drag that brainless beast in, too?
Lastly, when the Heigl character was set to leave on the spring wagon train, as per their original agreement, what were they going to do about being married? Did they make arrangements for an annulment or divorce? Or did the Christian-right writers just decide to gloss over that detail?
A friend told me that movies like these only appeal to corn-fed, over-stuffed, sexually frustrated hausfraus in the Midwest. Is this true?
“Sometimes love isn’t fireworks. Sometimes love just comes softly.” Ready the barf bags so you don’t hurl on your Nikes.