Mitch Taylor is one of the youngest students ever accepted to a university known for its programs for geniuses. He partners up with his roommate, science club legend Chris Knight, on a project to develop a high-powered laser. Together with their hyperkinetic friends, they employ their intellects in the pursuit of bigger blasts, practical jokes, and a deeper understanding of what real genius means. When they find out that their professor intends to turn their work over to the ... (Full plot summary below)
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Mitch Taylor is one of the youngest students ever accepted to a university known for its programs for geniuses. He partners up with his roommate, science club legend Chris Knight, on a project to develop a high-powered laser. Together with their hyperkinetic friends, they employ their intellects in the pursuit of bigger blasts, practical jokes, and a deeper understanding of what real genius means. When they find out that their professor intends to turn their work over to the military for use as a weapon, they decide to get even.
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| Suite101.comNick RogersA witty, whip-smart and wise classic. It checks crowd-pleasing boxes of college-comedy tropes while boasting a cheerful view that optimism in education is not a sucker's bet but one to place over and over to keep things interesting ... and weird. |
| Washington PostPaul AttanasioCoolidge has gotten onto something here, and the pity is that the story she's stuck with never gets her any deeper into it. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Salem AlatonMartha Coolidge's bright, whimsical Real Genius can credit part of its substantial and richly deserved cult following to the fact that nothing has changed: Raunchy, lowbrow teen comedies are forever in vogue, and SDI is still an impossible, money-sucking political mirage. |
| Filmcritic.comJames BrundageEveryone plays their part in making this a very funny movie. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIt's a brisk, smart satirical comedy from the writers of "Police Academy" and the director of "Valley Girl," set in a Caltech-like institution for the whiz kids of the sciences. How refreshing it is to see young people depicted as having a capacity for thought as well as emotion. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertReal Genius contains many pleasures, but one of the best is its conviction that the American campus contains life as we know it. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelFabulously acted and written with zing and zong, it's one of the few enjoyable movies of the summer. |
| Tor.comEmily Asher-PerrinReal Genius shows that nerds have their own games. They don't need to run faster or get more pledges or give themselves makeovers to have fun and prove their worth. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewIt 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. |
| Common Sense MediaBrian Costello'80s college comedy with some sex jokes, cursing. |
