Charlie Bartlett is about Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin), a prep school failure who bucks the system by doing bad things. After being thrown out of another school he ends up at a public school whose principal (Robert Downey, Jr.) is a dish rag and the principals daughter (Kat Dennings) who Charlie falls for. He becomes a BMOC after becoming the school shrink and pill dispenser due to his dysfunctional families various shrinks and doctors. His hopes of becoming a superstar at school are fulfilled but at what cost.Let's be perfectly honest. This film is Rushmore, just not as funny. This is what is called a "teen angst" film. What exactly is Charlie's angst? Sure they explain that he never had the chance to grow up, but it seems like he's been having a good time otherwise. He doesn't even seem that pissed off. The other teenagers have angst, but it's directed at camera in the class of '83 love shack. They're lucky to have that. The entire school's medicated, why are they all pissed off. Oh, they riot when the drugs are gone? So what this film amounts to is that we all need to be heavily medicated. Nice.
Robert Downey, Jr. and Kat Dennings are the only two redeeming things about this film. Otherwise , it's trash. I was hoping for a film with a soul, but this crap has nothing. A pure disappointment.
(just a note that the DVD release advertised that this film starred "Ironman's Robert Downey, Jr." Obviously the studio didn't have much faith in it either)
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