New on DVD & Blu-ray, Week of August 17: ‘The Last Song’

‘The Last Song’

The movie 'Last Song' starring Miley Cyrus

What It’s About: Based on best-selling novelist Nicholas Sparks’ (“A Walk to Remember,” “The Notebook”) novel, “The Last Song” is set in a small Southern beach town where an estranged father (Greg Kinnear) gets a chance to spend the summer with his reluctant teenage daughter (Miley Cyrus), who’d rather be home in New York. He tries to reconnect with her through the only thing they have in common — music. It also helps to have a hunky boy around for her.

It’s Kinda Like: ‘Dear John’ meets ‘Hannah Montana’

What We Say: Miley Cyrus and Nicholas Sparks fans will embrace this predictable teen soap opera that has all the pat tropes in the right place: Cyrus starts out as an alienated teenager who dislikes her father and, though a child prodigy, doesn’t want to attend Julliard; she meets a handsome young man in a cute way; falls in love; learns to understand her father; and even finds her way back to her music. What more could we ask for?

Blu-ray extras: Commentary, alternate opening, deleted scenes.