The Last Song
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: March 31, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
14
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
The three parallel love stories of daughter and dad, girlfriend and boyfriend, sister and brother, are nicely handled. Robinson is a sympathetic director of actors, allowing almost everyone their dignity. For the most part, she keeps this emotionally charged story in the schmaltz-free zone. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
And here's the revelation: Miley Cyrus is a really interesting movie star in the making, with an intriguing echo-of-foghorn speaking voice, and a scuffed-up tomboyish physicality (in the Kristen Stewart mode) that sets her apart from daintier girls in her celebrity class. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
I like Miley Cyrus. I like her in spite of the fact that she's been packaged within an inch of her life. I look forward to the day when she squirms loose from her handlers and records an album of classic songs, performed with the same sincerity as her godmother, Dolly Parton. I think it'll be a long, long time until she plays a movie character like the free-standing, engaging heroines of Ashley Judd, but I can wait. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazinePete Hammond
Yet another movie marketed with the line “From the author of The Notebook,” The Last Song is distinguished from other Nicholas Sparks adaptations because it’s the first screenplay the best-selling novelist has written himself. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
It’s not a great film, with some edge Sparks put in the novel left out of the script. But there’s real chemistry between the young lovers and an old fashioned virtue to the father-daughter, father-daughter’s boyfriend scenes. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMelissa Anderson
I can’t recall ever squirming as much as I did during Ronnie and Will’s first kiss; shiny, buff Hemsworth looks like he’s locking lips with an Andy Hardy–era Mickey Rooney in a wig. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The movie so deftly mixes sentimentality, romance and bathos in just the right measures that her fans and maybe new ones will enjoy the new Miley. Read full review
50
VarietyRob Nelson
A soapy meller that transitions the young pop star from the Disney Channel to the bigscreen while giving girls what they'd seem to want and nothing more. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
A more convincing star could make this a degree more tolerable, although in Cyrus’s defense not much more. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
All the obvious elements combine to manipulate the audience into a weepy time at the movies -- again. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Most of this is blandly palatable, at least for the first half. Cyrus, though she seldom strays from her two primary modes, pouting rebel or toothy girlfriend, has a winning on-screen presence, if only for her enjoyably abrasive edge in this deep well of pathos. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The Last Song is primarily for teenagers looking for something disposable to cry about for a couple of hours, though I did find it a tad easier to take than "Dear John." Read full review
50
Washington PostDan Kois
Hews closely enough to the Sparks pattern of romance and bathos that tears will flow as copiously in the audience as they do on screen. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Takes a sharp turn for the better when Ronnie and a poor big rich boy played by Liam Hemsworth fall in love. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith Uhlich
Maybe Douglas Sirk could have made something profound out of the pseudo-ennobling horsepucky. As is, The Last Song is what the crinkle-nosed Southern belle in all of us would resoundingly deem “Trash! Trash! Trash!” Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
So who was the movie really made for? Mostly, it seems, for Cyrus herself, who needed to take the first, hesitant step in another direction. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMichael Ordona
One of those maudlin romantic melodramas you just can't warn folks off. Read full review
38
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
Sadly, The Last Song is badly out of tune with real filmmaking. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
A movie that is as stuffed with bogus feeling and overwrought incident as a fast-food burrito. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
The title, The Last Song, may be wishful thinking for some, but the best they can probably hope for is the close of the era of Hannah Montana movies. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
Years on the Hannah Montana TV series have not adequately prepared Miley Cyrus for screen acting. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
The Last Song, yet another maudlin remake of a Nicholas Sparks bestseller. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The bottom line here is that Cyrus is ghastly in The Last Song, bad not just in one or two ways, but in all kinds of ways. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Offers a taming-of-the-shrew scenario so relentlessly bland and old-fashioned it makes "Dear John," the Sparks adaptation from two months ago, look like "Last Tango In Paris." Read full review
20
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Maybe I'm expecting too much of Cyrus. But The Last Song rests heavily on her alleged appeal, and I can't remember the last time I came across such a singularly charmless teenage performer. I hesitate to even use the word "actress." Read full review
0
New York PostLou Lumenick
It's the worst of both worlds as Disney cash cow Miley Cyrus makes the most dubious "dramatic" debut of any singer since Britney Spears. Read full review
0
Rolling StonePeter Travers
The only tragedy you'll face is paying good money to this swill. Read full review
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