A Crock To Forget

Rating: 4/10 (5 February 2002)

LOVE STORY for the Tiger Beat crowd. Okay, that's harsh, but A WALK TO REMEMBER is exactly what it is - a painfully earnest soap opera aimed directly between the eyes of fourteen year old girls, an excuse for them to get all weepy and cling to each other as the lights come up at the end.

Bad boy Shane West is ordered to pull some community time tutoring and acting in a high school musical (uh, okaaay.). `You can't make me act!' he vows to the judge, and then spends the rest of the movie proving it. Along the way he is given a chance to pull off wallflower Mandy Moore's eyeglasses to reveal how beautiful she'd really be if only she'd accessorize properly. `Don't fall in love with me' she demands. Uh, oh.hanky alert.

The perfect date movie for nice, upstanding Christian folk, anathema to anyone with a cynical bone in their body (and admittedly, my whole skeleton works that way).
Utterly shameless and completely predictable -- essentially, NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE without the laffs.