
Set in the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens, THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST centers on a fresh-faced young couple, Samantha and Jeff, who have only recently moved into town. The comedy centers on their dawning realization of the lengths they must go to in order to get their five-year-old daughter into school.... (Full plot summary below)
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Set in the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens, THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST centers on a fresh-faced young couple, Samantha and Jeff, who have only recently moved into town. The comedy centers on their dawning realization of the lengths they must go to in order to get their five-year-old daughter into school.
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| eFilmCritic.comErik ChildressIt may dawn on you that the film really only has one, big joke up its sleeve, but like The Aristocrats it finds so many great ways to tell it that the punchline rarely matters. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferA politically incorrect farce that's increasingly preposterous and inane yet nonetheless hilarious, zany and bold. Amy Sedaris has never been funnier. |
| Time OutNick SchagerThe Best and the Brightest's sharp one-liners and strong cast, especially McDonald's gleefully lecherous performance as an unabashed Republican pervert, help make it a sturdy bit of subculture-tweaking silliness. |
| Shared DarknessBrent SimonA slim pan. While there's a certain novelty of setting and a lot of its dialogue pops, the movie's chief problem is the fact that it doesn't seem to wholly embrace the arguably detestable nature of its characters. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...it's finally impossible to label The Best and the Brightest as anything more than a sporadically amusing misfire. |
| Miami HeraldConnie OgleAmusing at times but never more than a modest diversion, lacking the cleverness and imagination required to turn it into more than a one-joke movie. |
| Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeManages to be simultaneously offensive and bland. |
| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierRiding in to save almost every scene, though, are recent Tony Awards host Harris and the wild and woolly Sedaris, who goes too far, but in a good way. Shelov could learn from them. |
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisIf you are going to be this mean-spirited, you had better deliver the jokes, but the film's attacks on pretentious parents - not to mention put-downs of hardworking immigrants - consistently come off as more hateful than humorous. |
| AV ClubScott TobiasThe farce withers away when it should be expanding. |