Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 102
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 74
Though wholesome, the Mandy Moore vehicle A Walk to Remember is also bland and oppressively syrupy.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 19
Though wholesome, the Mandy Moore vehicle A Walk to Remember is also bland and oppressively syrupy.
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The best-seller by sentimental novelist Nicholas Sparks becomes this teen melodrama set in a coastal North Carolina port. Cocky, popular high school student Landon Carter (Shane West) is the big man on campus at Beaufort High School until a hazing incident leaves a fellow student paralyzed. Sentenced to community service and membership in his school's drama club, Landon is forced to seek help from Jamie Sullivan (pop singer Mandy Moore), the conservative, religious, plain-Jane daughter of the
Jan 25, 2002 Wide
Jul 9, 2002
$41.1M
Warner Bros.
All Critics (102) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (74) | DVD (21)
This realist fairy tale of impossible love has a fair amount of nuance and charm.
It's an overwrought teen weepy, Terms of Endearment for the TRL crowd.
It's sad that Moore's first major cinematic outing scrapes the bottom of the melodramatic barrel.
So boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it.
Just because A Walk to Remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls.
If you can't see everything in this film coming from a mile away, then you really need to get out more.
Too-syrupy re-tread of Love Story.
This is a great romantic tearjerker.
A shameless, compassionate tearjerker about hope, inspiration and courage.
For anyone under 13, free from cynicism and with a need to believe that 17 year-old boys aren't just after one thing, maybe this film rocks.
Succeeds modestly as a teen movie. Expect anything else from it and you'll be disappointed.
An adolescent romance we've seen a million times before.
A monstrosity of a movie that I am all too eager to forget.
Those raised on idealized romances (the Ken and Barbie kind) where love conquers all will no doubt love this sappy tale.
[A] wretched teen dramedy.
A kind of low-rent version of Love Story with overt religious overtones...
'No one was expecting Remains of the Day but this film could have been more than just a Dawson's Creek stop gap.'
Wholly un-groundbreaking, deeply conservative, increasingly sentimental, but reflecting some of the best of those qualities.
This horrific teen romance-cum-weepie is best watched from between your fingers, or from under your seat, or perhaps standing outside the cinema looking in the opposite direction.
Director Shankman ditches character development in favour of delivering an exploitative date movie and dubiously conservative moral lesson.
Mandy Moore only has herself to blame for choosing such a tooth-rottingly sentimental weepie as this.
Seeing as how it's based on a weepy Nicholas Sparks novel, it's not surprising that this teen romantic drama is an almost unbearably weepy film.
A sermonizing and lifeless paean to teenage dullards.
I truly cared to see A Walk to Remember, until I absolutely had to, or forced to. I had read many things on this film, some good, and some bad. Mostly bad. The film was surprisingly decent, nothing great or anything good. But decent. I felt that it was an interesting enough film to watch. Nothing more. The film didn't
August 14, 2011
Super Reviewer
One of the most heartbreaking films I've ever watched. Mandy Moore and Shane West make a great couple and the ending was poignant and perfect.
July 6, 2008Super Reviewer
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