Of course, it’s a chick flick.
I’m not a chick, and I thought it was a great movie.
Personally, I think the reason why it gets such bad reviews (while simultaneously reigning from its release in 1997 until last year’s Avatar as by far the highest-grossing movie in history) is that a lot of people ended up embarrassed that they went and saw it 5 or 6 times and cried each time. :-)