Ronnie Miller (Miley Cyrus), who is 17 and way too rebellious to be likable, travels to Georgia to spend the summer with her father, a former concert pianist named Steve (Greg Kinnear). Ronnie is a sarcastic brat up until she discovers that a racoon is trying to eat a nest of turtle eggs. She tries to protect the turtles. The aquarium sends over a volunteer named Will (Liam Hemsworth) to watch over the turtle eggs and he and Ronnie fall in love over the course of several nights on the beach. Ronnie starts to straighten out her life but then she learns that her father has cancer and that the reason he invited her and her brother to Georgia was so he could have one last summer with her.
This is a Nicholas Sparks story so, of course, someone has to die. I always tell myself that I’m not going to cry whenever I watch a Nicholas Sparks movie and then I do. Greg Kinnear was really likable as Steve and Liam Hemsworth was really cute as Will and I know I would have fallen in love with him too if we were protecting turtle eggs together. When the eggs hatched, the baby turtles were adorable.
It’s too bad Miley Cyrus can’t act because her performance was so bad that it ruined the movie. Even the racoon that tried to steal the turtle eggs outacted her. I got tired of Ronnie and her attitude. No matter what happened, Ronnie had to be sarcastic about it. Even when she finally realized that the world didn’t revolve around her, Miley still delivered all of her lines in the same flat, smartass tone of voice so I didn’t buy her change of heart at all.
I’m glad the turtles made it back to the ocean.
Through the Shattered Lens 