What were you expecting?

Rating: Null/10 (29 July 2002)

You've seen this movie before. Popular boy (this time) and unpopular girl fall in love. Friendships are challenged, other stuff happens. It's true love. Everyone's happy. Something must go wrong and it does. Will the characters be able to go on? They find a way. The end.
I knew what the movie was about. No surprises right? Wrong. I was pleasantly surprised with Mandy Moore, hey she's a singer not someone who's been acting since before she could read. She held her own. I feel she earned her MTV award. But I was impressed with Shane West. He was the movie, in almost every scene. He went from being a jerk to trying to soften up to being the sweet guys that make all the high school girls go, `Why can't my boyfriend be more like that?' and the boys say `Man, that guy makes me look bad even though I paid for this movie.'
Realistic? No. But it's only a movie, I watch them to escape. Real love isn't all fireworks and roses children. I know I'm married love my husband 100 times more than the day I said `I do' same goes for him (I asked tonight). I watch this stuff for the mushy new love stuff. This movie has it. I'd watch it again.