Too Perfect

This movie is great for young teenage boys! I love how serious topics The kids go through during puberty are handled in a realistic and lighthearted way. Perfect for families with pre-teen and young teenage boys, and there aren't many out there!

Too Perfect is a sweet story about 4 boys that are crossing that invisible threshold into adulthood. But on this day, they are just kids! They are goofy, they are ga-ga over girls and they are getting away from the bad kids. Yet life is life and they are dealing with REAL problems too- like a sick dog, a chronic illness and a divorce. In Too Perfect, these boys have each other to lean on as they face an unknown future.

This is the kind of movie I am happy to show my son. The characters aren't superheroes, they are just kids- how lovely is that?! Its a bit like an after school special from the 80's, except with much better photography and more complex characters. I thoroughly enjoyed Too Perfect and I would recommend this for a family movie night.

This is a low budget flick. You can tell from the really bad musical numbers that litter the film...every five minutes sees yet another musical montage with some poorly done rock tune in the background, odd camera angles, bad editing, three shots overlaid atop each other making your head hurt. And the story is even more lackluster. Every attempt at humor falls flat on its face, the acting is usually so-so to quite bad, and the dialogue is stiff and mostly boring. On top of all of that the story itself lacks any cohesion. You get the feeling the writer/director is way out of her league here, and a co-writer would have been a godsend. Too much of the film is comprised of various stories that seem to go nowhere, have little overall purpose, and you constantly meander back and forth with no real solid foundation...it seems if the writer had many stories to tell but had no idea how to tell any of them completely.

The running time of the actual story is a few minutes shy of an hour, making it feel even more after school special-ish than it does from the acting and writing alone. There is clearly an attempt here to toss in every cheesy "issue" facing teens today- bullying, divorce, half siblings, step parents, illness, death, all while trying to wow us with the kids doing crazy techno things like uhh texting.

Barely passable as a feature, not worth the scant run time. A definite pass.

My two pre-teen daughters enjoyed the movie very much! I enjoyed the simple sweet nature of the story. I like to see more movies that allow kids to just be kids ;)