You people are sick...

Wow.. They say ignorance is bliss... I say ur an idiot. I don't know what movie you were watching but they never said that cancer is a punishment from God. COMPLETELY OPPOSITE ACTUALLY! But they never said WHO punished the boy, they just showed a young boy going through something most grown adults could never even imagine and how he helped himself by writing letters to God. Oh and this isn't sum "stupid American portrayal of how God punishes us", it's a REAL boy dealing with REAL cancer and how he exercised what HE believed in. This was a TRUE STORY!!

Thanks for your hate speech shawshank999.

Now regarding the OP. I'm a Christian and I only gave it a 2. This movie was really cheesy, even though it's based on a true story. I couldn't decide if it was a movie meant for kids or adults. It's not serious enough for adults, and not quite something kids would enjoy. The main problem I have is the script. The dialog is just not realistic. People don't really talk like that unless they're TV preachers or live in the Midwest.

Oh no, not the dreaded "porn sex!" Obviously sex is evil and we should shield our children from it. Let's give them guns, though, so that can learn the thrill that violence can give. I saw Piranha 3D last weekend, and many of the posts on IMDB were actually saying that there was too much nudity. These were people who paid to see it and knew what was coming, so I wouldn't say we're regressing. I, myself have no problem with either sex or nudity though. It's not my business what anyone else does with their body.

I'm an atheist, and gave it a ten. And i didn't even watched it. And that makes me a saaaaad panda...

I don't bash anyone for beLIEving in anything if it makes them better people. I went to a catholic school for a year to try it out & see things from a different perspective, and had grandparents & family who were Jehovah Witnesses, among other spiritual/religious beliefs, but what it boils down to is facts.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't god supposed to be the creator of Earth & the people on it? What about the billions & billions upon billions of other planets in this vast universe, a small percentage of which ALMOST certainly harbor life? Will they go to heaven too? There are facts that every element that makes up everything we know were & are created from supernovae. Stars that live out their lives fusing Hydrogen into helium & so on so forth, and blow up re-seeding the universe with the elements that they created, and when the conditions are right, being in the correct distance(the habitable zone)like with our Earth, over millions & billions of years, life can evolve.

Now I, nor anyone else cannot say for sure that some higher, supreme being, like a someone/something with a name like god or whatever you want to call it/them didn't snap their fingers and create this or any other universe, whether it was for a purpose, for fun,, or just some crazy experiment, cause we don't possess that type of technology yet. What we can do is look through the telescopes and other instruments that we created & look up. We have found hundreds of planets around other stars, though we are far from being able to detect an earth like terrestrial planet as small as the Earth, but we can see up to around 300,000-some years after the "big bang" that happened 13.7ish billion years ago, which expanded to allow everything that is to date.

After learning quite a bit about religion & then science/astronomy/cosmology, I have to go with the cliche of seeing is believing. Just the facts ma'am. I have not seen this movie yet, but if a movie is good, then its good, regardless if it has a Christian theme, Muslim theme, a fantasy theme, a sci-fi theme or whatever theme it is. Movies are for entertainment(for the most part), enjoy!