somewhat disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (14 February 2007)

I'm giving this movie a pass because I LOVED the book, and so cannot give it a failing grade completely. The movie was occasionally quite funny, and the original plot was good. I appreciate that it's hard to make such an incredibly long movie PERFECT, but did it really need to be filled with this many clichÃ©d scenes? From the depressingly unoriginal rendition of the angst-filled teen drama that you can find in, well, any teen drama, to the overdone scenes of grieving at the end, the entire thing just seemed to me like someone took a great story and flushed it down the toilet.
Sorry but I prefer the book to this pile of poop.