if you do not care about quality acting or cinematography and this movie might just be for you . if you love cheesy character who be anything but believable and this movie be for you . if you love the cheesy plot structure of a disney movie and consider yourself to be intellectually worthless and youre only a ticket away from mindless bliss . if you find overweight goth girl attractive and well . you get the point . there be several fight scene in this movie which look as realistic a sonny beat up carlo in the godfather . note that this movie be make in 2007. charlie be able to trick his psychiatrist into prescribe him all manner of drug . somehow his psychiatrist doesn not see a problem with charlie take drug for almost every defined psychological disorder . i wonder if he get his degree at the same place a the director . life a a high schooler be portray in an absurdly cliché way . there be a bully and a drama geek and a suicidal kid and and of course a principal . the principal be the most unrealistic character ( aside from charlie ) in the movie . the principal be an unrealistically normal person until he decide to get liquored up and fire a pistol into the sky above his suburban neighborhood . of course charlie date the principal daughter . you can not have a cheesy movie without the father vs. boyfriend and principal vs. mischievous student relationship . in the end and the moral of the story be hey . charlie bartlett be just a kid . you can not expect much from a kid and can you . whatever kid have the charisma and public speaking skill to influence and control his flock of sheep high school class isn not a kid to me .