mix together rushmore and thumbsucker and and ferris bueller day off and sprinkle in some odd classic but go real light on creativity and originality and and you get charlie bartlett . the movie be a mess . lot of moment steal from other high school movie but no clarity and the movie be completely ridiculous and unrealistic while moment like charlie ( and shortly after the whole school ) go completely ape on what be supposedly a low dosage of ritalin be very frustrating . but most importantly and it be completely uninspired and surprisingly boring . you know there something wrong when even robert downey jr. be uninteresting in a character that make me wonder why he choose to do the movie in the first place . moment like the musical tribute to harold and maude ( if you want to sing out and sing out ) just make me think represent why be i watch this movie while i should be watch that one which make it very hard to appreciate the few moment that be good .