Even as characters are tweaked and actors bring a slightly different energy than his other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation with drama so overwrought
audience members can't help but
laugh — at least
until they're sniffling during the closing credits.
The movie was screened before an «invited
audience» in a Michigan Avenue theater, where two small groups of
audience members
laughed loudly at almost everything, and just about everybody else waited politely
until it was over and they could leave.