Endless Love

"With all due respect to Scott Spencer’s source novel, every aspect of Endless Love feels lifted from a pink diary with hearts drawn inside it - from the outrageously good-looking protagonists to the “villain” (a mean old dad who is mean). The most astounding thing about it is that adult minds are responsible for recreating the teen ennui so faithfully."

"It may prove too bland even for its target audience."

"The intended result is an American teen love story for a tweenie audience, with sexuality and drug use implied more than shown... the movie’s also banking on a demographic too young to spot the industrial-strength clichés throughout."

"Doesn't have enough going on to make it memorably terrible: Banality is its gravest sin."

"A glossy, Nicholas Sparksish wallow."

"A blah 1981 film becomes a bland one 33 years later."

"Though you'd think twice about lining a budgie cage with pages from the screenplay, there is something tremendously entertaining about the experience that never quite wears off."

"Tailor-made for the Nicholas Sparks crowd."