Can Great Hair Save A Movie?

What if it's great hair and pretty blue eyes? Great hair, pretty blue eyes, and a disarming charm? Great hair, pretty blue eyes, a disarming charm, and the kind of body that only a 20-something Hollywood young male ingenue can have?

Sadly, the answer - in any and all of those cases - is "no." But I so wanted it to be "yes."

You see, last week we went to see "Charlie St. Cloud" which stars Zac Efron (of all of the "High School Musical" movies, as well as the movie of the musical "Hairspray").

We'd seen the trailers, and it looked like the kind of movie that tugs blatantly at your heartstrings, but in all the right ways. And, honestly, I think that's the kind of movie it wanted to be. But it just wasn't.

I mean... there were moments in it when the dialogue was so bad that touching moments made us have to stifle laughter. And that's just not a good sign.

Sure, the scenery is nice. And Zac has a very attractive young love interest. And there are some funny moments (like chasing geese out of a graveyard), and even some touching ones (like watching him say goodbye to a friend from high school who was killed in the military). And, yes, he's very pretty.

But does that make it a movie worth seeing? Sorry, no.

Overall rating: C-. I can't flunk it, because it really was trying. And... well... since I'm not an actual teacher, I can give a few points for the flirtation.