MOVIE REVIEW- Tween dream: Sparks' ineptitude can't hide Miley's appeal

By ROGER EBERT |
Published online 8:00am Thursday Apr 1st, 2010
and in print issue #0913 dated Thursday Apr 1st, 2010

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Now that Miley Cyrus is 17, it's about time she played a 16-year-old. That she does fetchingly in The Last Song, and wins the heart of a beach volleyball champion a foot taller than she is. Well, actually 12.5 inches. She also learns to love her dad, played by Greg Kinnear, whose aura suggests a man easier to love than, say, Steve Buscemi. She does this on an idyllic island paradise offshore from Savannah, Georgia... [<a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100330/REVIEWS/100339997/1001">full review</a>]