Rating: PG
Movie Release Date: March 31, 2010
DVD Release Date: August 16, 2010
Plot 411: A teenager is forced to spend her summer with her dad and gets to know him for the first time.
Review: Ronnie (Miley Cyrus) is rebellious teen whose future is questionable due to bad choices in her life. She feels abandoned when her father (Greg Kinnear) divorced her mother (Kelly Preston) and hates having to spend the summer with him and her younger brother (Bobby Coleman). She meets a local (Liam Hemsworth) and embarks on a summer love affair that opens her eyes to other possibilities besides being angry and bitter. This is basically your typical coming-of-age story about a emotionally sensitive girl who's built a wall around herself and how she tentatively comes out of her cocoon. It's based on a Nicholas Sparks book so of course you've got to expect someone is either sick or dying or sick and dying. While it's not the best adaptation of his work (which in my opinion is still The Notebook), it's not the worst either (which I think is Nights In Rodanthe). I think all of these books have a great plot to work with, but it all comes down to the acting in the end. In this movie, I just thought that the relationship between Ronnie and Will (Hemsworth) was unbelievable. It developed too fast for the audience to buy into their romance. It didn't have enough of anything for me to believe that they were meant to be together. Also, Ronnie's complete change in character once she starts dating this dude is, again, unbelievable. After years of playing the bad girl to the point of being arrested for shoplifting, she becomes this fun-loving girl? I don't think so. However, besides that entire plotline, the relationship between the dad and kids is moving. Oh, as a side note, Hemsworth is apparently the youngest of three acting brothers from Australia. You may know his older brother Chris as George Kirk in Star Trek and the eldest is Luke, who is famous from an Australian soap. It's like they're all the next generation of Paul Walkers. Don't you think?
Watch It: If you're into those tear-jerker type flicks that reflect on life.
Skip It: If you're looking for a good tear jerker with believable actors.
Movie Release Date: March 31, 2010
DVD Release Date: August 16, 2010
Plot 411: A teenager is forced to spend her summer with her dad and gets to know him for the first time.
Review: Ronnie (Miley Cyrus) is rebellious teen whose future is questionable due to bad choices in her life. She feels abandoned when her father (Greg Kinnear) divorced her mother (Kelly Preston) and hates having to spend the summer with him and her younger brother (Bobby Coleman). She meets a local (Liam Hemsworth) and embarks on a summer love affair that opens her eyes to other possibilities besides being angry and bitter. This is basically your typical coming-of-age story about a emotionally sensitive girl who's built a wall around herself and how she tentatively comes out of her cocoon. It's based on a Nicholas Sparks book so of course you've got to expect someone is either sick or dying or sick and dying. While it's not the best adaptation of his work (which in my opinion is still The Notebook), it's not the worst either (which I think is Nights In Rodanthe). I think all of these books have a great plot to work with, but it all comes down to the acting in the end. In this movie, I just thought that the relationship between Ronnie and Will (Hemsworth) was unbelievable. It developed too fast for the audience to buy into their romance. It didn't have enough of anything for me to believe that they were meant to be together. Also, Ronnie's complete change in character once she starts dating this dude is, again, unbelievable. After years of playing the bad girl to the point of being arrested for shoplifting, she becomes this fun-loving girl? I don't think so. However, besides that entire plotline, the relationship between the dad and kids is moving. Oh, as a side note, Hemsworth is apparently the youngest of three acting brothers from Australia. You may know his older brother Chris as George Kirk in Star Trek and the eldest is Luke, who is famous from an Australian soap. It's like they're all the next generation of Paul Walkers. Don't you think?
Watch It: If you're into those tear-jerker type flicks that reflect on life.
Skip It: If you're looking for a good tear jerker with believable actors.
