This is no "walk in the clouds"...

Rating: Null/10 (1 February 2002)

The script: looks like a bunch of borrowed scenes from every teen movie made since the stone age... Arrgh!!! Mandy Moore: supposed to be a "preacher's daughter", but actually looks more like a dominatrix paid to wear school uniform for a week... Why would anyone want to feel sorry for such a character... West: potential actor trapped with a lousy script that requires him to do stupid things and swear all the time... Person playing preacher: even with extremely stereotypical role, manages to squeeze a convincinfg performance confronting his daughter (This scene starts off embarassingly stupid). Rest of the cast: "rapid-fire" acting, as if they're trying to get. Even typical teenagers can crack so many one-liners in such a short period of time. And they're portrayed as if they spend 99% of the time goofing off or giving Lance and Jamie a hard time. Cardboard people. The second half of the movie is unbearable, since half of the lines blurted are "I love you", "I love you too", etc. That line was already beaten to death when it was most needed. The opening scene is already an embarrassment, I can't imagine anybody getting into such a stupid bet! The main character's "punishment" seems more like a punishment for people that would DIE for the job he got for a "punishment". The scene where Lance Carter "discovers" Jamie Sullivan, in a choir where only Mandy Moore seems to be singing. I guess you COULD see the movie for the songs, which saturates the screen as if the whole thing was a giant music video. I have to admit there is one great song that Moore sings just before kissing West... Get the book instead... it's much less ambitious and it's set in the 1950s, a time where this would have worked!!!