Beautiful Wave

"Life's a lot easier if you let go of whatever is holding you back." Nicole (Teegarden) is sent by her mom to Santa Cruz for the summer to live with her grandmother. At first she resents the fact that she has to go but soon changes her mind after meeting new friends...and the sport of surfing. After watching "Soul Surfer" I was actually more excited to see this then I normally would have been. I knew it wasn't going to be like that but I wasn't looking forward to "Soul Surfer" the first time either and that surprised me with how good it was. After 20 minutes I realized how wrong I was in my expectations. For those that have seen the movie "Surfer, Dude" this is more comparable to that one then this one. No real plot to speak of, or really surfing for that matter. Again though I know this movie is not made for me so I may be being to hard on it but to me this was boring and seemed to have no point. Although if I was a teenage girl I may feel different about it. Overall, a movie that I thought was boring but also it wasn't made for me. I say C.

Too slow-paced for me. And it's like the movie couldn't decide if it was about this girl coming out of her shell and overcoming her dad's drowning, or about these teenagers surviving a perilous road trip. And I don't get why they would put up with this drug-using, irresponsible jerk.

Nice storyline, one my grandchildren can watch! Good veteran actors and young ones did well too. Wonderful photography! I enjoyed it very much! I liked the bit of mystery and a bit of a look back to the sixties. Thank you for showing Hallmark movies Now!

This movie had a very dramatic storyline. There IS surfing and a awesome indie rock soundtrack, but it also a story on a teen's search of her place in life after her father died saving her. Nicole (Aimee Teegarden) goes through a soul-searching trip(after finding her grandpa's 1960's van) along with a co-worker of her Grandma's (Patricia Richardson)surf shop, and 2 guys whom (at times)did not seem to go along too well. A must-watch movie if you are in great family dramas, or the environment (seaturtles clearly are apart of the movie.) And in the end of this flick,you'll feel better about life and the environment.

(2011) Beautiful Wave DRAMA/ ADVENTURE

What can I say, I'm a sucker for 'road trip surfing' movies which this set up can be similar to "Blue Crush 2", another movie not liked by the masses, but I still kind of liked it because of it's 'uniqueness' despite secondary acting. Directed by David Mueller who also provided the story along with Lynn Salt, stars Aimee Teegarden as Nicole asked to move in with her mother's estranged grandmother who happens to own a store, selling surfing boards. Although Nicole is a great swimmer, she still has a fear of the ocean water, which is why she reads a lot during her spare time, but she somehow inherits this old van anyway, for it may be a sign that she yearns for adventure. Now, I just want to say that the first 30 minutes of this is a little blatant, perhaps somewhat convoluted and that the chemistry don't seem 'relatable' until they (2 guys and 2 girls to be exact) go on a road trip to search for a particular beach where Nicole's grandfather used to surf, which is supposed to be on some undisclosed location somewhere in Mexico. She decides to go there, after discovering a drawn out map, secretly located in the van. And until they go on that road trip, the relatable chemistry I'm referring about are the harmless verbal squabbles, which 'we' as people often do not see in many 'road trip' movies, because we had all done it, such as which direction to drive or whose paying for what, and on what conditions. Pointing out that if someone is tagging along with someone else, that rules would have been made which is no different with any house you live in. It's all very relative and expected, that without those familiar squabbles, would make those other road trip movies very boring. And finally, I hate drama movies where it always have to end in a big hug. Here is a movie which would not stoop to that kind of level, since a persons actions should be judged for what they do in the future and in most cases, a hug doesn't solve anything. My rating might've been higher had the 30 minute set up be much tighter.