Fair as a date movie and chick flick, but uh...

Rating: 6/10 (27 January 2002)

A Walk to Remember is puzzling as well as corny even if at moments it seems like it could be a decent movie. It brings puzzlement to me how Mandy Moore who plays the lead girl in the movie is the "plain Jane" type in her community. I'm not saying she did a bad job in her role, but in any real community (yes even in Virginia where this story takes place) does anybody really think that somebody who looks like Mandy Moore would be the outcast from all the preppies? Maybe if the film had flashbacks of her as a kid being the outcast it might be not as undoubtful to see her as an outsider, but come on.
Truth be told, there were times in this movie when I thought it wasn't half as bad as I thought it would be from the trailer and commercials. In this Nicholas Sparks based story, West plays a popular kid who gets in trouble and is sent to do some community service type things, and Moore is there volunteering and soon it unfolds with them getting sort of romantically involved, then more so, then she changes him forever, and, and...

In total, I can see a group of teenie-bopper girls feeling and not feeling the way I did after seeing this movie and it depends more on the person whether or not they like this. As for me, I won't watch it again unless I'M the one on the date and know I'm getting action afterwards. Grade: Between C+ and C