A Walk to Remember centers around Landon, a self-centered rebellious young teen who plays a cruel prank on a classmate that lands said classmate in the hospital. For punishment Landon must take part in the school play (along with other things); in need of help with his lines Landon is eventually forced to turn to Jamie, the minsters daughter and a social outcast at his school, for help with his lines. What Landon didn't expect was to fall for Jamie nor the change in himself that would come about as a result.

The film is not as polished as say The Notebook (Another adaption of a Nicholas Sparks book) and feels as if it were made on quite a tight budget, though it is suppsedly set in the 90's (the book was set in the 50's) it fails to capture modern day youth and seems stuck in some kind of limbo era between the present and the 50's.

I don't want to discourage anyone from seeing this film as it is truly a beautiful film with great performances from it's principal players however, as I've already said, it in no way lives up to the novel.

Review #2 By Natalie

A Walk To Remember like 2004’s The Notebook, is an adaptation of one of Nicholas Sparks’ novels. I really wanted to get this on DVD after reading the novel, because the book really made me laugh and cry, as it promised.

I watched the movie with an open mind, which was why I came to love it. Although it definitely does not live up to the book’s simplistic beauty, it delivers the kind of charm many teen movies cannot give nowadays, what with the crude humour and making out.

The story is about Landon Carter, a rebellious teenage boy who, along with some of his friends, plays a cruel prank on one of the classmates. He gets into trouble, and as punishment, is forced to take part in the school’s spring play. When he realises he needs help with his lines, he has no choice but to turn to Jamie Sullivan, the reverend’s daughter, and general reject at school because of the things she does (eg. Bringing her bible wherever she goes, having only one sweater). But Jamie is a generally sweet girl and does help him. Little did Landon expect himself to soon fall for Jamie, and the influence and change Jamie had on him.

I thought the performances by Shane West and Mandy Moore were very good, and they did have scenes where their acting really sparkled. I was particularly pleased with the fact that the two of them really captured the spirit of Landon and Jamie’s sweet, simplistic, mutual love for each other.

However, this movie did have its downs. I felt that the movie should have been truer to the book and show how Landon really fell for Jamie, vice versa. The ending however, was really good.

I would definitely recommend this movie to all my friends, because I felt that it really captured the spirit of true, simplistic love (this is different from passionate love, which can be also true love, but is different from true love). Although it doesn’t necessarily live up to the standard of the book, I still feel that it did a pretty good job already.

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