1. *There's nothing about The Notebook that isn't either lazy or dismissive of its audience.
2. A fine tale that will leave romantics everywhere misty eyed.
3. A thoughtful, emotionally rich film in which we see that great love, like deep faith, is forged on doubt, trials, and hardships. Only then does it deliver its deepest rewards.
4. A sentimental film filled with flashbacks and clichés.
5. ... one gets the sense that director Nick Cassevetes and writer Jan Sardi would spray the audience with teargas if they could.
6. I cannot believe I'm about to recommend a movie as clogged with melodramatic treacle as Nick Cassavetes' adaptation of The Notebook.
7. Whether someone can enjoy The Notebook or not depends much of the mood in which the viewers find themselves.
8. Um romance sensível e emocionante que leva o espectador a se importar com o destino de seus tocantes personagens.
9. Two parts idiotic romance, one part offensive melodrama.
10. It's an interesting piece of counter programming on New Line's part, the only question is why didn't it go direct to cable?

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?
It's hard not to admire its unabashed sentimentality, but The Notebook is too clumsily manipulative to rise above its melodramatic clichés.