this film have be make dozen of time in other form . this disney original idea be a complete laugh if this be consider original and then i be abraham lincoln . and i can not be abraham lincoln because i believe he be dead . trevor morgan ( you may remember him a the annoy kid from jurassic park iii ) play a complete nerd and mathematical genius who basically live underneath a school ice hockey stadium . it be there that he construct magical potion use science and math . however he realize he not exactly catch any lady and so he adopt the persona of chaz ( his real name be charlie ) to woo the lady enrol in school again and become a bad boy who talk back to teacher and look cool . news flash represent kid stop wear fonzie style leather jacket to school in the 1960s . if anything and it retro . it doesn not make you look cool . you do not gain instant respect by show up at school with a leather jacket and a comb and a smirk and talk back to teacher . today and in the age of gangsta rappas and emo and you would be laugh at and ridicule . chaz would become an instant outcast and his plan would backfire . but in genius all the kid be friendly white suburbanite offspring and they love the chaz . they fall victim to his evil ploy to get some girly action and even the bad boy at school respect him . it would be kind of funny if it weren not so sad to actually think some disney tv executive greenlit this and think the concept of a 12 year old high school graduate living in an underground lab who adapt a new persona of a leather jacket wear freak would be successful .