Overrated and overhyped

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I stumbled across the movie flipping thru the movie channels and stopped to watch when I saw Craig (I regularly watch his Late, Late Show). I didn't realize it was Charlotte Church until the credits rolled. She stopped my 8 yr old girl in her tracks and she started watched when Charlotte sang at the Royal Academy scene. I really enjoyed the movie. Having watched his show for some time now it was easy to see the parallels he drew from his own life (drinking, sobriety, music, etc). The scene in which the two former band mates where joking about his wife's name being Nessie and they lived in Loch Ness..you could tell they were having a ball when they filmed it. The music scenes where a bit stiff for Craig and the father-in-law.

A problem with I'll Be There is that there are too many clichés in it. The entire opening scene with Paul Kerr's drunken accident is made up of pure clichés, and really doesn't give you a very good first impression of the movie.But it's not a bad movie. It seems to be made partly to fictionalize Charlotte Church's real life, for reading her IMDb biography page, there seems to be a lot of details in the movie that are taken from her real life.The movie would have been much better served being a straight drama rather than a part-time comedy. The comedy aspects of it weren't effective, and almost embarrassingly unfunny. If the movie had ditched the comedy part and spent some time exploring the story in more depth, it could have been a lot better. And would have been a lot sweeter, too.7 out of 10.

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.

It is sad that this beautiful film didn't do as well in the theater. I only heard about it because I saw a big poster at Wal-Mart, advertising the DVD release, and thought, "Charlotte Church in a movie? Cool!" Anthony Stewart Head seems to be trying to shed his "charming gentleman" persona from coffee commercials and _Buffy_ (though he played something of a bad guy on _VR5_).As a Romantic comedy, I think it's a fine film, _The Parent Trap_ without the annoying slapstick. But I agree with "Drumicon" that the singing seemed off. Charlotte has a beautiful voice, but she doesn't seem to know how to sing pop--even her Christmas album is too "slow." This is a love story not just about a man and a woman, but about family. This is also a romance in the proper sense, idealizing the sad realities of "the music industry."