Much like Tyler Perry panders to his base, Nicholas Sparks just keeps churning out soapy affairs about couples that meet and need to overcome their dark secret pasts in order to find happy ever after together and audiences can’t seem to wait for the next installment.  

'Dear John Takes a Walk to Remember' is the mash-up title that best defines this latest Nicholas Sparks adaptation supposedly written specifically for Miley Cyrus. Critics and bloggers of all sorts have decided to make sport of the Sparks protocol, which presents lovers who meet, sing, dance and love purely and innocently and confront the inevitable limitations of life and living while also proving to initially disapproving parental figures that their young love is real and true. Grade: D.