really liked it, all you should know is...

Rating: Null/10 (9 March 2002)

Good, solid movie, and one with character and moral values. Not likely to sweep the Academy Awards, but, all in all, WELL worth seeing.
=ALL= YOU SHOULD KNOW before going to see this movie is that: it's about teens, it involves a girl who has faith in God, there's romance as well, and quite a few people really like the movie.
To be fair, it seems there are others who just can't stand it. A lot of those are probably (if I had to guess) people who are a bit of Grinches when it comes to values and faith. If you are favorable towards those things, whether you're a teen yourself, or a 40-year-old dad like me, you'll probably like A Walk to Remember.
Not that you have to be particularly religious to enjoy this film.

There were a couple of moments where I felt the production suffered; chiefly, in a couple of musical numbers that were just -too- musical. The soundtrack seemed to wander off into recording-studio land, divorced from the surroundings of the film. They would have done better to bring in some of the sounds from the real-life (er, movie-life) setting, and not to have the vocals quite so "professional." The girl is supposed to be a rather ordinary high-school girl; it is a bit distracting for her to sound like a professional singer (even though I understand she is).

But other parts of the movie overcome those flaws. You pretty well forget (at least I did) that you're in a movie. That's one of the tests of a good film.
This one will probably make it into our home video library.