Purely Joyful Movie!

Perfectly adorable

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

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

The cast, the story...amazing. I think that the director succeed to capture all of the emotions of the characters and I strongly recommend this movie.

Its always cool, when you randomly pick a movie to watch and its not only good, but interesting as well... Two scientists meet, accidentally touch hands, they fall in love, get married, get pregnant, then decide to use that child as a guinea pig in a social experiment... nature vs nurture, or raise the child totally to defy their genetic disposition, and while they're at it, they'll adopt two more to run similar experiments with... Its like this... they adopt a daughter, that came from a family of really dumb people, I mean really dumb, but they are going to raise her as if she's going to be wicked smaht. They also adopt a son, who's past relatives lean towards the criminal and violent side, and they raise him as a pacifist... And their own boy, a child born of two scientists, they will raise as an artist, the uni-boob, is one of my favorite pieces of his art. Does it blow up in their face? Well I won't tell, but seriously though, if it didn't blow up in their faces would there be a movie??? Well acted and a cool story. Oh, did I mention its a dark comedy. Go for it!! Filmbufftim on FB.

While the top 2 reviews of this film on IMDB at the time of me writing this (only 200+ ratings) are correct in most ways, and probably written by intelligent people, I feel that if u just watch this movie without even reading anything about it. Ie...I just hit play on NFLX without having any expectations of seeing a quality movie, you're experience of watching a wonderful movie will be fulfilled. Yes one of the reviews is correct in stating that there could've been more science, better experiments etc....one listed the faults of some of the characters, but the characters having faults make this a realistic movie. A movie not about science but a family drama, which I usually can't even sit through. This is not even close to the type of movie that I give 9 stars to. Just check it out with an open mind and maybe you'll like it as much as I did. I felt that every actor or actress in the film did an excellent job.

The way this film began, I thought I might be onto something here with its dark humor leading the way. However, as the movie progressed it not only seemed to lose its focus but its humor as well.Matthew Goode and Toni Collette star as two professors of science who obtain funding from a foundation led by Michael Smiley to use 2 adopted children plus their own soon-to-be baby in an experiment that they feel will prove no one must be a prisoner to their genetic make-up. So for example, one of their adopted children, who comes from a family of "dolts" will be nurtured and home schooled so that she will become a "brainiac". In this controlled environment, they hope to confirm their hypotheses and eventually publish their findings.However, aside from the fact that their children are treated like lab rats and are not told what is occurring, things will eventually go awry in various ways as does the movie itself, which seems to fall apart.Overall, some of the very dark humor does work at times here, with Andreas Apergis quite funny as the assistant sent over by Smiley to help the parents. To note, for those concerned there's nudity in the film, as well as some rather explicit and suggestive sexual references. There's also what I thought was a rather despicable scene where an animal is killed in an experiment and a young girl is blamed for its death.