IMDb plot summary: Teenage geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a high-powered laser for a university project. When their professor intends to turn their work into a military weapon, they decide to ruin his plans.
Directed by Martha Coolidge. Starring Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, and William Atherton.
This is... fine. It's very playful and very 80's and just on the edge of being a frat bro movie without ACTUALLY being one. There are some entertaining moments here (I like the gag about the dude disappearing into the closet in the first half of the movie) and it's pleasant enough, I just don't find it either terribly funny or terribly exciting. It's just in the middle.
2.5 stars.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Real Genius < Silent Hill
Real Genius > Footloose (2011)
Real Genius > Shadows and Fog
Real Genius > After the Thin Man
Real Genius > Short Circuit
Real Genius > The Tempest (2010)
Real Genius < Dunkirk
Real Genius > Teacher of the Year
Real Genius > Cinderella (1950)
Real Genius < Anna and the King
Real Genius < Memphis Belle
Final spot: #1465 out of 2873.
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