Movie Review: The Last Song
By Alice Aldenhoff, Staff Writer
Take two teenagers, Ronnie and Will, let them meet over the summer at the ocean in Georgia and make a love story out of it. That sounds like the base of a cheesy chick flick, which “The Last Song” is.
The previously convicted Ronnie comes with her brother from New York to stay with her divorced father in Georgia over the summer. Wandering madly around the beach, she meets Will, and because of Will’s consistency they come together. But the cheesy story gets dramatic when they find out Ronnie’s dad is sick and Will’s family doesn’t accept her as his girlfriend.
The fact that Disney-star Miley Cyrus plays the rebelling main character ‘Ronnie’ made me skeptical about it because it was hard to imagine that crazy, spoiled Hannah Montana was able to play in a serious, sensitive movie is based on a bestseller of chick-lit writer Nicolas Sparks.
Now that I’ve seen it, I recommend the movie for people who like to cry because tears in your eyes are guaranteed. But still, the movie is not nearly as good as the book “The Last Song” by Nicolas Sparks. Exceeding your imagination from the book is probably impossible.