The Last Song

And as she looked towards the sun shining through the window and said "hi, dad" I wanted to walk down to the projection room and tear the reel to pieces and burn the entire place down

Hopefully you've read the book before watching this film because it was much better. The less then stellar performance from Miley Cyrus, twirls with all the typical cliches of a movie targeted for teenage girls. The movie is watchable but a big disappointment.

May I just say that I hate Miley Cyrus, but for once she was actually good at acting! Sure, she could have been improvised for with someone else, but I thought she fit the character well. I loved the story and the lines, and as usual in a Nicholas Spark's film, it was a tear-jerker.

To be fair, this is actually the worst Nicholas Sparks movie I have ever seen.

This was pretty bad and the acting really should have been better. It still managed to be somewhat entertaining though.

Miley Cyrus can't act, but she tries her hardest in this film and manages to NOT ruin it. It's a classic Nicholas Sparks story of love and loss. A bit predictable, with occasional wit and emotion mostly thanks to Greg Kinnear.

Cyrus gets to shed her Hannah Montana alter ego for an insipid summer romance, thick with pop songs and montages, from the sparkless pen of Sparks. She sulks, she sasses, she flounces off in countless huffs, she cries, she laughs, she kisses, she sings along to the car radio, she tries on girly dresses for a wedding at which we never meet either the bride or the groom, and she plays a piano solo at her father's funeral so stirringly as to summon up an invisible orchestra in accompaniment.

As shamelessly manipulative as any Nicholas Sparks production, The Last Song is done no favors by its miscast and overmatched star, Miley Cyrus.

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Miley gave a nice performance.

Too moving, too sweet, too predictable... Cyrus can't really act, she tries tho...

Nicholas Spark's writing is the main problem. Leads were likable enough (well not at first but they get there). Seriously this at the very least, is leagues above the other Spark's adaptation in 'Dear John'.

Ever seen a film where the extras are better than the leading lady? Now you have. Made me vomit.

Aren't main girls in rom-coms supposed to be pretty?

Predictable drivel where everyone does as you wish given you ask them twice. Leading male support for Cyrus had more of a flushed out background than the leading lady herself. But fear not, the writer's only worsened this debacle by way of complacently simple cliché extra-characters or left field personality traits coming into play. Be sure to watch this movie if you would like to know what you SHOULDN'T do in a film.

Years on the Hannah Montana TV series have not adequately prepared Miley Cyrus for screen acting.

Could be mediocre/ok but it is pulled down to truly bad by Miley Cyrus' distractingly bad acting.

"The film is engineered to entice tween female moviegoers and repel everyone else." - Nick Schager

A talented but rebellious girl doesn't want to play piano but then plays the piano again at the end of the film. The stuff in between is just time wasting for the inevitable conclusion. However, the events in this film so traumatised the girl that her personality split, manifesting in happy-go-lucky pop princess, Hannah Montanna. Also, the young kid starts of relevant but after he says his 3 important lines he turns into the comic relief. Comic relief chars should make you boil with rage, right?

Cyrus' acting ability makes Veronica's emotional make-over work.

I don't remember liking this. Saw it in theaters. Don't know why. The actors are fine but it's soapy and melodramatic likes other adaptions from Sparks books.

Drama, adapted from the Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name, about a teenage girl who reconnects with her father years after her parents nasty divorce. overstuffed with twists, tragedies (including a character who gets cancer) and one tortured expression of love after another. While Cyrus holds her own... every plot turn can be anticipated, and every confrontation ends in hugs. Ugh!

Hit all the cliches, and hit them all with style (at least if you call bad acting style.) That being said it did manage to salvage some charm out of the whole mess so it wasn't a complete failure.