good back-story, and good acting

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

After watching 'London City' I had flashbacks to this thankfully forgotten effort from a few years back.From the opening scenes you get the feeling of a predictable, low budget, romantic piece of nonsense with the obvious predictable ending. The whole film had the feeling of a poorly acted school play, the flash back to the 80s scene was particularly hilarious where they somehow managed to make the characters look older with the appearance of 40 year olds going to an oldies night.On the plus side for Charlotte Church, I doubt too many ever saw this, it truly is a poor piece of work, a DVD that would make a better drink's coaster than viewing if you were given as a Xmas present from the 99p bargain bin.

I'm really conflicted. I'll Be There has a lot to recommend it: It has some great writing, not half bad story management, good direction and performances, fun musical numbers that feel real, yet tight. And it *feels* wonderful.But a few aspects of the final product threaten to "down" it. One has to do with the fact that the story is what I call "operatic", by which I mean that the story can be told in 50 words or less, and the success or failure of the flick comes down to whether it dealt effectively with that limitation. And there are times when one has to wonder. Also, there are moments where the ball on character development seems to be fumbled; folks say and do things, here and there, that seem to muddle their characters a bit.But I can still recommend it. I notice that a lot of the folks here are fans of Ms. Church. I'm a fan of Ferguson, and this is my first encounter with Church. She was the weakest acting professional of the lot, and she was pretty darned good: I say this to emphasize the wicked good acting that infests the flick pretty much from beginning to end. At times I felt that there were individual scenes that were so good, they alone made me glad I watched the flick. An early scene in the pub with a knot of Kerr fans resolving their (initially) conflicted feelings about him was mindblowingly good!I'd love to give the flick a higher rating, as I give high ratings to films that move me, which this one did... But I have to demur and back off a little: There were too many fleeting moments of balls getting dropped, and that seriously impacts the overall effect of a film.Glad it was made: Good flick: Go watch it!

I was so excited to find out that the BEST singer in the world, Charlotte Church made a movie. And even MORE excited when I found it at our local video store. It said it was funny, but was anything but. I mean, they think a 40 year old man dancing around drunk in animal print under-ware is funny?!?!?!?!? And Charlotte Church's lines weren't really good. And the story was a lot like the movie "What a Girl Wants". You could barely even tell that it was supposed to be a comedy!!!! And when they did the flashback to the Mom and the Dads first meeting of each other, the Mom looked the exact same!!! She just looked like a 40 year old woman trying to look like a 18 year old girl. And Charlotte Church looked like she was on drugs! The makeup and hair people did a REALLY bad job. I thought this movie was a absolute disgrace and I would personally be embarrassed if I had taken part in it!Overall: Bad movie, don't even TRY to see it.

I viewed this film on the way back from NYC to LOndon.In a cramped plane seat and a world of boredom this film did not shine. Miss Church is laughable (admittedly only in places), the characters are stereotyped and the dialogue contrived and generally unfunny.Most of the laughs come from the crappines of the film but there are some good moments in the loony bin and with the "Australian" mate.Honestly though, its an absolute abortion. Would never have been made if Charlotte Church's a**e wasn't in it. See for this reason ONLY.Line ten needed by the imdb bods. I thank you.