Apparently, mid-February is the new summer. There was enough audience to go around for all four of the week’s top openers, despite a spate of negative reviews for each of them. Having already coughed up $30.5 million to boost the opening weekend of his last big romantic drama, the Nicholas Sparks adaptation Dear John, viewers were powerless to resist the leaden charms of Channing “The Big Brisket” Tatum in The Vow, as he wrapped his beefy arms around Rachel McAdams and $41.7 million. And with a modest $30 million budget, massive profits are assured, especially in the likelihood that people forget they ever saw it and fall in love with it again on home video. Not to be easily outdone, veteran hunk-tor Denzel Washington scored a big weekend with the mediocre thriller Safe House, which finished just behind The Vow with a very healthy $39.3 million. Even Journey 2: The Mysterious Island proved to be a world-beater at $27.6 million, collecting more than Journey To The Center Of The Earth despite making it painfully obvious in trailers, commercials, and posters that it would be a terrible ordeal for anyone over the age of 10. And speaking of terrible ordeals, the 3-D version of George Lucas’ little-loved Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace shook loose some more coins from the upturned pants of nerds and nerd children, earning $23 million for fourth.