this have the potential to be a clever and fun movie . therere be a lot of thing go on that point out the absurdity of modern teenage life and and the pressure we put kid under so that they achieve our goal . however and the adult be moron . rich and successful people be complete fool . somehow in america you stay poor if you be ugly and but if you be an imbecile with a size 2 dress and you live in a 5 and 000 sq ft house with a staff of 15 ( never see ) who do all the chore . you do not actually learn anything and so you can not pick up on normal social clue that everyone else do charlie and for example and get beat up in school because he doesn not pick up that a tough guy and his sycophant in the high school bathroom be people to avoid . instead and he get beat up all day long . and ha ha and this be so funny the school principal ( robert downey ) be disconnect to the kid in the school and so they completely disrespect him and he doesn not know how badly he be function . but he rich and too and and life in a 4 and 000 sq foot house with a staff of 10 ( never see ) who do all the chore . the high school be compose of student who be just about on the low margin of functionality and awareness . not a single one of them be destine to be successful serve fry at a mcdonalds and let alone do anything positive . but they be all on drug ha ha . and they barely can keep themselves from disrobe and make out ( euphemism for what all high school kid do all the time in hollywood high school ) . they openly smoke cigarette and dope in school and and charlie distributes high power drug ( ritalin and others ) in school . all high school be like this and of course . not a single kid have a healthy relationship with any adult and and not any adult have a rational frame of mind . ha ha . you just can not get enough of this . and ha ha charlie can just read up medical book and poof . he be smart enough to prescribe drug just like a real doctor . and he do . spoiler charlie family have a psychiatrist on call and and he bamboozle the dr. ( who go to medical school and psychiatry school but somehow be never warn about manipulative kid ) who let charlie describe fake symptom and then prescribe drug for charlie and who then sell or distribute the drug in school . ha ha . this be so funny . i give it a three because it have some good moment but the cruft around the good be just so awful . this should have be catch in the editing stage . the editor should have be more on the ball . they could have rescue this film . instead and the producer must have intervene and say we do not care if this be a failure of a movie . be on a schedule . lame movie . lame script . some good acting . ( charlie actuall do some good stuff . ) .