Predictable, unremarkable romance flick

Rating: 5/10 (15 May 2005)

The first half of this movie is a cliché-fest - just about every lame love story cliché is trotted out: the boy who does outrageous things to attract the girl, the poor boy who falls in love with a rich girl who has parents who are shocked because the boy is beneath her (that one's only been done thousands of times before!), first love being the only true love, etc.
It was also obvious to me from the start who the old characters were and it made it somewhat annoying to hear James Garner referring to his character in the third person as he narrated the story.
The movie improved somewhat in the second half, once the boiler-plate romance was out of the way and it started to become somewhat original and more enjoyable. The improvement wasn't enough for me to recommend this movie.