i enjoy a good high school drama as much a the next guy and and i be quite willing to hold my nose a little bit with regard to originality and believability and but unfortunately and with this movie and the stink penetrate my best nose block effort . there be nothing new in this movie at all . there be nothing that be even gently use . it all be do before and again and again and ad nauseam . and do well . but unoriginality be not this movie only crime . worse be the total lack of a believable setting or narrative . first of all and high school be not like this at all this be the hollywood stereotype high school that we have all become so familiar with over the year in movie after movie and most recently with 17 again . why can not they break free of this particular fantasy and create a high school that be just a little more interesting and believable . second and you do not have to examine the story very closely to find it want . i be willing to let all kind of thing go for the sake of suspension of disbelief and but this movie just push it too far . there a scene where charlie and his buddy decide to sell videotape of student be beat up and and the whole school go crazy try to buy them . i just do not get it . another sequence feature charlie visit psychiatrist after psychiatrist to obtain prescription drug . presumably and a a minor and they would consult with his mother before prescribe these drug and and in fact and it would be very unusual for them to even accept him a a patient without first have contact with a parent at very least to arrange for payment ( this be the united state ) . and the thing he get away with in the boy bathroom . please . and third and the stereotype character . dear lord and save u from the same set of stereotype yet again even more crudely and lazily fashion than they usually be . go and write the first three to five high school stereotype character that come to mind on the back of an envelope and yup and youre go to see them in this movie . i get the impression that the film maker do not even try to do anything different with these character because they be a bore with them a we be . if i be from this age group and i would be particularly offend by this movie because of the way it portray teenager . dumb and drug addle and text messaging sheep . the ill define clumsy lesson at the end seem to be something about how parent have to be good and and have to support their kid dumb and drug addle and text messaging sheepish way or something like that . the whole movie reek of why bother . redeem quality . well and the actor who play charlie bartlett do a nice job . he fun to watch . i have always think robert downey jr. be talented . he deserve good than this movie . i would have to dig really deep to come up with a third one . ummmm . the architecture of the school be nice .