If you were to get someone to write a film about love, who better to get than the brains behind the successful movie The Notebook.

Dear John has done just this and is 2010s first real love drama about a young couple who fall in love with each other over a spring break.

Starring Channing Tatum, who is appearing in his first major film since The Fighter, and Amand Seyfrie, the movie begins with the two main characters meeting on a sunny afternoon on the beach.

We are introduced to John Tyree (Tatum), a young soldier from the Army Special Forces, who is enjoying a few weeks leave when he finds an instant attraction to Savannah Lynn Curtis, a college student also on spring break.

The two spend the remainder of their holidays together and quickly form an addictive love for each other.

All of a sudden, John must return to the war and abandon his spring fling, much to the heartache of Savannah.

In an attempt to never forget each other, the two exchange letter for the next year until they eventually reunite.

While it may be just another corny, emotional love movie about two teenagers with little life experience, it actually does a great job of captivating the viewers with the love story.

Where the movie does let itself down, is that the story is really hard to believe, and the initial love the pair form was just too fast to be convincingly digested.

It also fails to explore any other sub plot and solely relies on the love affair to carry it.

Dear John is out now around most cinemas in Australia.