Best movie ever!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I enjoy this movie a lot. This movie shows the day to day pressures of dating that Christian teens who desire to live a life for God and provide a great alternative way to deal with this. Although this movie first came out in 1998,It really relates to what take place in today's world. It depicts teens with who desire to follow Christlike standards, but there are others who come to undermine that standards, so the teens are tossed between two worlds and two opinions. This movie really shows God has a greater standard from the world's way of dating for teens to follow. It has impacted my life and I have followed these principles in the movie and God has brought me the best mate ever, because I have waited on Him and His timing. This is an excellent film and great for youth groups.

i can't believe a movie like this even exists. I mean i am a 19 year old Christian and i do believe that kids/teens should be taught the value of having high morals, but this movie doesn't make any sense! why does it portray kissing/dating as a bad thing when that's part of a teenager's life? Plus, it's ridiculous that it made it seem like it was all worth it when the girl( the main character) got married. I mean just because you don't date others before you get married does NOT guarantee you a happy fairytale marriage! plus, i would rather date and get to know a lot of people before i choose to settle down with one person. That way i would feel like i made the right choice. So parents, don't expect this to teach your kids about purity. It will make them want to rebel! plus if you notice, throughout her whole teenage life, it was shown how sad and bored she felt to waste her young life!

I don't think anyone who sits down to watch "Pamela's Prayer" is really expecting an Oscar-caliber experience, but even with lowered expectations this movie would would be best as fodder for Mystery Science Theater 3000 - that is, really good for a group to sit down and make fun of.Pamela is a young girl who feels as if everyone is dating but her, problem is... she's right. Her father believes that she should not date or kiss anyone until her wedding day. How that helps a teenager develop socially I'm not sure, but the father's opinion is placed on par with the Will Of God. One of my biggest problems with this movie, aside from the acting (which I'll get to in a minute), is that some of the father's actions just don't make any sense. He won't let Pamela go on a group date while she's in high school, but as soon as she graduates he'll let her go on a single "date" unattended to an isolated area. Wha...? That just doesn't make any sense to me. While I can applaud the relationship between the father and Pamela, it just seems so far moved from reality as to be laughable. For example Pamela's father is asking her about how she would feel if she had to tell her husband that she'd kissed another man, or how she would feel if he told her he'd kissed another girl. My first response was, "I'd say, 'Oh... okay.'" The act of kissing is portrayed as being so intimate... almost rivaling actual sex.Speaking of laughable, the "acting" in this movie is abysmal. All of the father's lines are delivered in the actor's best "stained glass pastor" voice. It never really changes even when he's disciplining his daughter. The rest of the cast doesn't fare that much better. Everyone sort of goes about the scenes and the dialog as though it were a skit for church. Though honestly I'm not sure how much life the cast can inject into a script with such lines as, "Do you know what a Christian Film Library is?" Seriously, I can't believe that line got past the rough draft stage let alone into the movie itself.If I must give the movie credit I can say that all of the scenes were edited as to form a comprehensible story. There weren't any glaring continuity errors such as sudden day/night changes. The music, while clearly from a Casio, services each scene and makes sense.I will not argue the merits of waiting to kiss versus not waiting though if you are a parent who wants to instill the "not kissing" virtue, you're better off doing it yourself instead of showing this film. In fact, I would dare say showing this film might push them in the opposite direction. Ultimately the movie just doesn't work because it takes itself too seriously causing the audience to not take it serious at all. Instead of a heartfelt plea for purity, the movie comes off as unrealistically hilarious.

As is usual with these kind of films the production values are not quite the standard of a major studio and that has to be taken into consideration when reviewing these film. The cast is pretty amateurish, but attractive. The lead, Serena Orrego, gives a good account of herself though all things considered, could have a future in mainstream films.The message of abstinence is a given with Christian media and I wouldn't even argue the viewpoint, only that one should realize that in this complex world of our's not everyone will opt for that. We have to be ready to deal with those that don't choose abstinence.But young Pamela is not allowed to even date. She quite properly asks the question, how is she ever going to meet her intended if she never does go out?The ending I won't reveal, but to say it's a Pollyannaish ending is to put it mildly.