The Last Song Reviews

A predictable but sweet old-fashioned teen romance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/5

Cyrus and Hemsworth... represent some kind of theoretical low for how terrible two romantic leads can be, together and separately.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

It's an entire season's worth of a teen soap opera crammed into a feature film.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: B

The latest in a growing number of weepy films based on Nicholas Sparks novels that don't come anywhere close to The Notebook.

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This film is kind of a brilliant move on the part of the Cyrus Corporation.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

How do I find thee ridiculous, The Last Song? Let me count the ways...[Blu-ray]

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

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!

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

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 | Original Score: 6/10

full review at Movies for the Masses

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

This is piano-key-tinkling melodrama that pulls out just about every cliché in the book.

| Original Score: 1.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4

As Nicholas Sparks adaptations go, this one's both endearingly join-the-dots and surprisingly un-crass.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Peddles banal truisms ("Love is fragile, and we're not always the best caretakers!") as if they're freshly minted.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The Georgia locations are handsome and the people are pretty but any resemblance to real life is purely coincidental.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Miley Cyrus makes a pathetic attempt to demonstrate her non-existent dramatic skills in this latest Nicholas Sparks-penned story.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

The "last song"? In all conscience, that should really have been Billy Ray's Achy Breaky Heart in a brooding minor key. You'll feel the ache and hear the break.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Disney starlet Miley Cyrus becomes an early contender for worst actress of the decade in this painful attempt at a romantic tear-jerker.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

While it's quite watchable, The Last Song doesn't feel like a film that's been made so much as assembled from standard teen movie clichés.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5