Friday, May 7, 2010

THE LAST SONG

The book version of “The Last Song” is incredibly well written, and detailed (in a positive way). “The Last Song” is written by the famous Nicholas Sparks, known for his other best-sellers: “A Walk to Remember”, “The Notebook, and “Dear John”, which were also turned into movies…


“The Last Song” was also recently turned into a movie. When Nicholas Sparks was writing “TLS”, he had Miley Cyrus on his brain. He chose her to play “Ronnie” (she also chose the name after her grandfather), the main character of the book and film.


The day it came out, negative reviews were already being conceived about Ms. Cyrus’s performance. Her acting wasn’t amazing, but she has a lot of time to improve. It was her first lead in a movie outside of the “Hannah Montana” world. Her crying scenes were “ok”, but not as believable as her co-star, Bobby Coleman who plays her little brother in the flick. She is slowly leaving “Disney Land”, and is trying to challenge herself. This movie was definitely a challenge, but she did not work up to it. Hopefully, she will in the future. But Miley wasn’t the only actress that needs more improvement. Newcomer, Carly Chaikin did well in some scenes, but also made a lot of her scenes seem awkward. Marcus wasn’t in the film much, and in the book it is the complete opposite.


Positive comments… Ok, yes, there are some. Greg Kinnear played his character very well. Liam Hensworth was a perfect Will. Kelly Preston was pretty good. The script was cute and creative. The turtle scene was AMAZING! The music in the film fit like a glove. Miley’s powerhouse vocals were shown, and they were quite impressing.


(From 1 to 10)

Acting: 6
Script: 7
Storyline: 7
M.M Quality: 9
Music: 10

REVIEW BY: Jessica Johnson

5 comments:

  1. Karen Says: Nothing personal, but I don't like Nicholas Sparks and his Play-dohBooks. I don't like Miley Cyrus and I don't like romances.
    I did not watch the movie since I did not wish to support the box office. However, I did receive quite an impressive number of negative reviews. Of course, my outlook is very peculiar, so my opinion may have been different. But in my opinion any movie with Miley Cyrus cannot be too good.

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  2. That little kid was the most amazing freaking thing on the planet in that movie right there.

    ^That sentence made sense whilst writing it.

    He was brilliant! I loved that kid-- he's the main reason I cried during the movie.

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  3. mmhhhmm umm well the movie was okay i guess i mean i sorta enjoyed it but twoard the end it started to get really cheesy. - RY BY

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  4. im so sad!
    i went to the movies yesterday, &this movie is not in theatres anymore!!!
    didn't it jsut come out like last month or something???
    goodness! D:
    anyone know where its out??

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  5. ahhhh this movie was sooooooooooooo good!!! it was super sadddd too :( but it was still good... :)

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