Charlie St. Cloud

A delicate film - not flimsy, but fragile - that holds together on the strength of Efron's physical presence and performance.

The surprises really do surprise but often because they're remarkably stupid and poorly explained.

One thing that defies debate: Zac Efron is going places as an actor of value. But he deserves better movies than Charlie St. Cloud.

This ode to "moving on" from grief packs so little genuine emotion that it will touch only the most susceptible of viewers.

Charlie St. Cloud, like its star Zac Efron, is a gorgeous, unblemished thing. Both would be much improved with a tiny flaw or two.

The scenes in which Charlie plays catch with the ghost of his Red Sox-happy brother are only the most mawkish in a movie whose every element is calculated to set a 12-year-old girl's heart thumping.

You are not, in a movie like this, supposed to think too much; you are supposed to be transported beyond skepticism on a wave of pure, tacky feeling. Instead, in this case, you drown in sentimental, ghoulish nonsense.

This is a very clever story portrayed by talented actors. A very sentimental film allowing you to grow attached to the individual characters and really sympathise with them. On a whole a fabulous movie.

Pretty good movie. Kind of like the sixth sense. In this case though he can see them in spirit when they are close to death. Uses it to help people.

[SPOILER!] - So the brother dies sitting in the passenger seat and Charlie (Zac Efron) makes it out alive without a single scratch, cut or broken/fractured bone? Not very convincing. Touching movie - it's really hard to depict the emotional struggles and pain of a teenager dealing with the death of a loved one; especially close sibling in this case. Zac Efron did a great job communicating to the audience the pain behind that. The ending also didn't really work - I'm glad the two did end up getting together in the end, but everything that brought them to that point was just really confusing, with Efron talking to dead people and then almost dead people and then alive people. The spark and love between the two were well acted-out, however. This movie just didn't bring it all the way back home.

Charlie St. Cloud is not a good film in any sense of the word. A compelling premise is ruined thoroughly from beginning to end with the film's insistence on being a teenage rom-com fantasy film. The acting is lackadaisical to say the least and the little brother is annoying and needs to go away to make this film better. Aside from the truly far fetched and overly sappy direction taken by the film, the initial premise and overall message is good: do not mourn forever because life will pass you by, the person you are mourning will want you to move on. Decent message, but instead it is drowned out by gratuitous shots of Zac Efron's abs and teenage rom-com tropes. Overall, Charlie St. Cloud is a bad movie.

It has good acting, but the story is very shallow. The unpredictability is common here. The lesson that you could've learned from this is missing.