This Valentine’s day, movie theaters across the country opened up the remake of 1981’s “Endless Love.”

As someone who hasn’t seen the original film, there wasn’t anything for me to compare it to. But, Washington Post reporter Stephanie Merry says, “When Franco Zeffirelli brought Scott Spencer’s novel ‘Endless Love’ to the big screen in 18981, the result was a corny, poorly received teen romance starring Brooke Shields. More than three decades later, “Endless Love” is back, and what does this new version offer? A different set of actors, a Valentine’s Day release date and kissing. Lots of kissing. Kissing in place of character development and dialogue, even entire kissing montages where a meaningful plot should be.”

Going into the movie, I was excited to see it. Not only is the leading actor, Alex Pettyfer, a beautiful British hunk, but the commercials seemed to support a good romance movie. After actually watching the movie however, I’ve realized that I was fooled by the amazing music that sneakily shined in the background of the commercials.

In fact, if you weren’t paying close enough attention, the entire movie could have you fooled with it’s amazing indie/alternative rock soundtrack. I’m not kidding; the music that backed each scene is the only thing that separated the movie from bad to good. (Not great however; not even a golden soundtrack could do that.)

The movie is predictable and lacks substance. There’s the shy yet gorgeous girl, Jade Butterfeild (Gabriella Wilde) \the stocky popular guy, David Elliot (Alex Pettyfer), who gets all the ladies swooning including the shy girl, and the overprotective killjoy of a dad (Bruce Greenwood) who is only “protecting his little girl.” Original.  From the first three minutes of the film you already know the lovers end up together. (That may be slightly over dramatic)

The acting is mediocre. Several of the front runners of the cast do come with British or Australian accents however, and only a google search would shine the light on that. So my kudos for good American accents go to main actors, who are both Brits.

If you want to watch a love story backed with hormonal teenage romance and model-turned-actors, this movie is for you. Now being the proud owner of the “Endless Love” soundtrack, I can say that the only thing I’m recommending is the music.