Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams, love story? I’m in. Whether it was Channing Tatum’s good looks or Rachel McAdams’ resume of strong films or even Taylor Swift in the background belting the climax of her song “Enchanted,” somewhere along the way it is easy to get swept away by the strategically sequenced parts of the trailer for “The Vow.” By the end of the trailer audiences are “enchanted,” left hoping for the fairytale ending where love can find a second chance no matter the circumstances, including memory loss.

February is a time for romance and love, and conveniently “The Vow,” directed by Michael Scusy (“Deep Impact”), was released this February just before Valentine’s Day.

“The Vow” is a film about Paige (McAdams) and Leo’s (Tatum) love for one another and whether a vow of love, which is a commitment, can stand any trial. In the film, Paige and Leo have been together for about four years and on the way home from a night out together they get in a car accident that wipes away Paige’s memory from the past five years, including her marriage and knowledge of her husband Leo. Throw in an opportunist ex-fiancé and unsupportive parents and you get additional conflict. Despite these obstacles, we see Leo’s chivalrous attempts to make his wife remember who he is and what they had.

On a serious note, “The Vow” is inspired by true events that happen to Krickitt and Kim Carpenter, which are expanded upon in the book by the same title. It is true that Kim loses her memory and forgets her marriage to her husband, but this is where Hollywood deviates from reality. For the Carpenter’s it is only after 10 weeks of marriage that the couple gets into the car accident that swiped the past 18 months of Kim Carpenter’s memory, including who her husband is.

“The Vow” is a movie that has all the major ingredients to be a successful film, one for the record books: The movie has a love story, conflict, unrelenting characters, as well as both good looking and well established actors. So where did this film go wrong? You have to be the judge of that, but for now in my book it just is not one of those top-notch movies like “The Notebook” or “Titanic,” films that will recapture and invest audiences again and again.