The Last Song (2010)
Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 115
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 92
As shamelessly manipulative as any Nicholas Sparks production, The Last Song is done no favors by its miscast and overmatched star, Miley Cyrus.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 24
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 Cyrus stars as a teenager who reconnects with her father years after her parents go through a nasty divorce in this adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel. The novelist also provides the screenplay for the production, which is directed by Julie Ann Robinson. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
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Cast
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Miley Cyrus
Ronnie Miller -
Greg Kinnear
Steve Miller -
Bobby Coleman
Jonah Miller -
Liam Hemsworth
Will Blakelee -
Hallock Beals
Scott -
Kelly Preston
Kim -
Nick Lashaway
Marcus -
Carly Chaikin
Blaze -
Kate Vernon
Susan Blakelee -
Nick Searcy
Tom Blakelee -
Adam Barnett
Teddy -
Michael Jamorski
Lance -
Melissa Ordway
Ashley -
Carrie Malabre
Cassie -
Lance E. Nichols
Pastor Harris -
Stephanie Leigh
Megan Blakelee -
Phil Parham
Megan's Husband -
Bonnie Johnson
Neighbor -
Rhoda Griffis
Doctor -
Anthony Paderewski
Security Guard -
April Moore
Firefighter at Church -
Todd Smith
Firefighter at Church
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Here's the revelation: Miley Cyrus is a really interesting movie star in the making, with an intriguing echo-of-foghorn speaking voice, and a scuffed-up tomboyish physicality (in the Kristen Stewart mode) that sets her apart from daintier girls.
Top CriticAnyone but Cyrus fans will find this one of the more inferior Sparks adaptations -- and yes, that includes Nights in Rodanthe.
It's like Dante and Beatrice all over again, with the Georgia coast standing in for Paradise.
Sadly, without a single note of originality, Last Song is an awfully long and tiresome tune.
The movie moves Ms. Cyrus from where she was to more or less where she and her handlers wanted to be, and Mr. Kinnear's musician father, Steve, adds a generous measure of grace.
So bad it makes The Notebook look like Casablanca.
A predictable but sweet old-fashioned teen romance.
Cyrus and Hemsworth... represent some kind of theoretical low for how terrible two romantic leads can be, together and separately.
It's an entire season's worth of a teen soap opera crammed into a feature film.
The latest in a growing number of weepy films based on Nicholas Sparks novels that don't come anywhere close to The Notebook.
This film is kind of a brilliant move on the part of the Cyrus Corporation.
How do I find thee ridiculous, The Last Song? Let me count the ways...[Blu-ray]
As a vehicle to extend the Miley Cyrus $$$billion$$$ dollar phenomenon of pre-teen fandom into a young adult starlet of seventeen, no production value was denied. But it ain't this year's discovery!
A melodrama that's aimed at teen girls, but the cinematography and performances make it palatable for others as well--if you don't mind someone toying with your emotions.
full review at Movies for the Masses
This is piano-key-tinkling melodrama that pulls out just about every cliché in the book.
An obvious bid for the teen queen to extend beyond her comfort zone only to then clearly show her limits and need for further development.
As Nicholas Sparks adaptations go, this one's both endearingly join-the-dots and surprisingly un-crass.
Novelist Sparks turns screenwriter with this film, which combines his usual themes (beaches, grieving teens, cancer) as a vehicle for Cyrus to put her childhood career behind her. It's exactly what we expect, but it's also fairly watchable.
Peddles banal truisms ("Love is fragile, and we're not always the best caretakers!") as if they're freshly minted.
The Georgia locations are handsome and the people are pretty but any resemblance to real life is purely coincidental.
Miley Cyrus makes a pathetic attempt to demonstrate her non-existent dramatic skills in this latest Nicholas Sparks-penned story.
Audience Reviews for The Last Song
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- Steve Miller: Sometimes you have to be apart from the people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes it makes you love them more.
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- Ronnie Miller: Do you live here?
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- Steve Miller: Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.
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- Kim: We're not perfect. Any of us. We make mistakes, we screw up but then we forgive and move forward.
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- Jonah Miller: Mom says its because she has PMS.
- Steve Miller: Do you even know what PMS is, Jonah ?
- Jonah Miller: Of course I do dad, I'm not a little kid anymore. It's the Pissed At Men Syndrome.
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- Steve Miller: Sometimes you have to be apart from the people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes it makes you love them more.
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1. They think the main guy in this is hot.
2. The movie plays out the romance that they post about on Facebook, but they'll never get to experience.
In The Last Song Miley Cyrus spends time with her brother and dad on her father's beach house after their parent's divorce. She finds love and that's the story. The biggest problem with the movie right away is that Cyrus just isn't likable. She treats everyone around her like crap and she does nothing but whine about having to spend time on a beach house. Trust me, she's not the only unlikable character. Her brother is a bad acting child actor whose dialogue consists of stuff Michelle Tanner from Full House would say, her dad is just some guy, and Cyrus's boyfriend (Liam Hemsworth) is just a generic "that guy" with no personality. The movie is also incredibly predictable. Every time there's a dialogue scene, I was able to guess what cheesy line would be spilled out, every time there was a romance scene, I could tell what move Hemsworth would pull on Cyrus. I didn't like the acting either. Cyrus spends most of the movie bitching and in the scenes where her character is suppose to be happy, she still looks like she's about to start pouting. Hemsworth was really wooden in his role and brought nothing to the character. Another really dumb thing about the movie is the turtle hatching scene. Some of the scenes have Cyrus caring over turtle eggs and half of the movie builds up to them hatching. There are two problems with that scenario:
1. Why would you build up something as simple as turtle hatching?
2. If you're going to build up to a scene, make it last more than 30 seconds.
I'm not kidding, the turtles hatching doesn't last long because it's replaced with another stupid story arc concerning the dad. By the end of the movie, I didn't even care what had happened. There wasn't any flow to the story, the characters were boring, the plot was cliche, the dialogue was hammy and the acting was pathetic. The only purpose this movie served was making money and trying to pass off as an unofficial sequel to The Notebook.