Love Happens (2009) Critic Reviews

More thoughtful than its cookie-cutter marketing campaign implies, and better than its awful title promises, "Love Happens" is the rare Hollywood romance concerned with emotions other than love at first sight.Read the full review

One of those sticky dramas.Read the full review

Excise the love story, and there's a pretty good movie buried within Love Happens struggling to get out, mostly to little avail.Read the full review

Love Happens is an oddly upbeat title for a movie that is surprisingly sad.Read the full review

Delivers all the pain, melodrama and redemption that fans of the genre demand.Read the full review

The vital signs in Love Happens, a movie that feels likes a laboriously padded outline, are faint.Read the full review

The film contains almost no rough edges; thanks to decades of previous use, just about every shot and sequence is as polished as a riverbed stone.Read the full review

That this superficial romance between a successful self-help author and a nurturing florist is also a film about overcoming the tragedy of losing a loved one only makes its clichéd insipidity that much more irksome.Read the full review

The title is a good indication of this movie's blandness and predictability.Read the full review