When science whiz Mitch Taylor arrives at Pacific Tech as a freshman, he's paired up with genius senior Chris Knight to work on a laser project. But Mitch and his brilliant roommate Chris soon begin to suspect that something is amiss with Hathaway's project.
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May 30, 2007
The movie gets stuck as a run-of-the-mill teen revenge comedy.
June 24, 2006
It does make you wonder if the drive of the US education system is ultimately to develop better weapons of mass-destruction, though Coolidge's movie is too hazily good-natured to capitalise on the tougher aspects of the material.
May 20, 2003
What the film needs, instead of these familiar teen-movie trappings, is a cleverness and eccentricity to match that of its characters. For the most part, these are qualities that it lacks.
May 30, 2007
The humor is relentlessly cruel, smug, and disconnected from any sense of how human beings might behave in similar situations.
January 01, 2000
Real Genius contains many pleasures, but one of the best is its conviction that the American campus contains life as we know it.
December 18, 2003
Supreme guilty pleasure
October 19, 2004
Young Kilmer in no-brainer comedy
April 18, 2005
goofy and very funny
May 30, 2007
What lifts the production above the run-of-the-mill is swift direction by Martha Coolidge, who has a firm grasp over the manic material.
May 30, 2007
This disappointing teen comedy from director Martha Coolidge is another entry in the rash of teens-goofing-with-science films.
