A great movie to fall asleep in

Rating: 1/10 (29 January 2002)

It's late. You've just seen Not Another Teen Movie. Now you want to go for drama. A dramatic teen movie. A good one. Then, you come across this. A Walk To Remember is the definition of teenage movie. Unfortunately, it's not very memorable, especially when you see your favorite insomniacs sleeping for the first time in weeks.
It's the usual plot. Not much changes. Some guy falls in love with a girl (Mandy Moore). The "ugly" unfashionable girl just happens to be Mandy Moore. Set in the South, and their times are just the whole movie.
Now, if someone did have acting lessons that would be useful for this movie, it wouldn't help. The plot is overused and shot up, it's not even funny to poke fun at. The dialogue is so cheesy, you might as well bring a tub of macaroni with you. It helps if you're a teenager who couldn't care less, being a Mandy Moore obsessed fan, enjoying such movies as The Mummy Returns and you really want to preserve On The Line in theaters forever. But, unlike the rest of the world, these people don't pay good money to see this movie.
No good points, really for this movie, except that it has people who can't see it's Mandy Moore playing the ugly girl. Bad points are countless, including the unrealistic setting. The only real accomplishment is when a teen movie really does TRY to win America's hearts. If you are dying to see it, rent it, or better yet, forget it.
This movie wants to make you laugh, cry, and experience every other emotion a teenager can have. But, really, A Walk To Remember tries to move you, but fails. The only moving the movie does is encouraging people to walk out the theater.