Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I have casually watch movies for/by younger people, and even when I was much younger, I have to admit that I seldom liked them. They tend to be full of clichés and contradistinction of the rich and the poor, nerds and party animals, i.e. lots of black-and-white approaches. Well, the movie in question is not totally free of them, but thanks to good performances (particularly Anton Yelchin as Charlie Bartlett and Robert Downey, Jr. as Nathan Gardner) and some new angles in the story make the movie rather enjoyable to follow - in spite of the fact that I have serious doubts about the tangibility of the events and background; is it possible to hold such a school in the US?Anyway, quite a good movie, recommended to watch - unless you hate Yelchin or Downey, Jr. :)

Charlie Bartlett is a movie with a good message, shows you how important it is to act in a friendly way and even though Charlie was way wealthier than everybody else he treated everyone equally, showed compassion for every single one of the kids, even the guy who kicked his ass multiple times. That only shows, that even your biggest enemy can someday be a good friend of yours and have you back when the situation gets nasty.A traditional teen movie, with the usual flicks, but what i was quite disappointed about, was the fact that there was no school staff intervening Charlie's business, as a matter of fact really no school staff whatsoever apart from principal and superintendent. Robert Downey Jr. had his usual role of a cocky guy, performed well as per usual.Charlie Bartlett was a great role model and Anton Yelchin's performance was superb in this movie, really the right person to play Charlie.What i found interesting was that the music in the movie was really good, i very rarely see a movie, where i can enjoy the music while watching it, all the musical scenes, especially the music at the very end were really great, in my opinion.

Hal Ashby directed "Harold and Maude" in 1971, a little masterpiece about a depressed teenager called Harold. Disillusioned with the world (religion, nationalism, work, wealth, consumerism, capitalism, the military, school, family etc), Harold resorts to suicidal flights of fancy. He's rehabilitated when he meets Maude, an elderly Holocaust survivor.Directed by Jon Poll, and based on a screenplay by Gustin Nash, "Charlie Bartlett" references "Harold and Maude" several times. Like Ashby's film, it also revolves around a depressed teenager with a wealthy but absent father. In this case his name is Charlie (Anton Yelchin), a mopey teen who moves into a new high-school. Here he meets hundreds of kids who, like him, struggle to cope with various pressures and problems. Charlie helps them all by starting a psychiatrist's booth in a school bathroom.Screenwriter Gustin Nash's father is a psychiatrist. Nash's script, though, uses psychiatry to make a larger point: a damaged generation of adults have abandoned a damaged generation of kids. In "Charlie Bartlett", these kids metaphorically become their own therapists at best, at worst their own self-medicators. Adults remain on the sidelines, watching as kids run damage control."Madness is not a natural, but a political, category," philosopher Mark Fisher once wrote, "what is needed now is a politicization of much more common disorders." Whilst "Charlie Bartlett" is honest about teenage despair, suicide, addiction, authoritarianism, and the way in which society increasingly medicates for maladies, it doesn't really touch upon the roots of such things. Where better teen comedies ("Ghost World", "Pump Up the Volume", "Harold and Muade") delve into the systemic, psycho-socio-economic causes of these problems, "Charlie Bartlett" recoils. Teenage despair, here, is simply a result of being misunderstood and/or unpopular."Charlie Bartlett" stars Anton Yelchin in the titular role. Unconventionally cool, his performance evokes the teen comedies of the 1980s ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Say Anything", "The Sure Thing" etc). Hope Davis plays Charlie's mother, a woman who, like all the adults in Nash's script, hides behind addictions whilst her son is called upon to "be an adult" and so "handle" things which no kid should have to. Elsewhere Tyler Hilton plays a school bully, his role subtly referencing 1979's "Over the Edge", another flick about abandoned teens. The film co-stars Robert Downey Junior - himself once an alcoholic - as an alcoholic school principal. A sultry Kat Dennings plays Bartlett's love interest.8/10 – See "Ghost World", "Pump Up The Volume", "The Spectacular Now", "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", "The King of Pigs", Godard's "Le Chinoise" and Bresson's "The Devil Probably".

This movie is brilliant. It still makes me laugh having seen it about five times, I laugh out loud when I just think about some of the scenes. As well as being incredibly funny it's moving, and deals with some important issues faced by teenagers today. It's also very well acted all around, particularly by Anton Yelchin (who most people know as Chekov in the new star trek movies).I've spent quite a lot of time telling people about this film and no one seems to have heard of it which makes me really sad because it's such a good filmI honestly can't praise it enough. Just watch it. Now!