Genius

1999

Action / Comedy / Family / Romance / Sci-Fi

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 51% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 51% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 2317 2.3K

Plot summary

Charlie Boyle finds that even his high IQ can't solve all of his problems when he takes on a double life in order to make friends his own age.

Director

Rod Daniel Photo
Rod Daniel

Top cast

Charles Fleischer Photo
Charles Fleischer as Dr. Krickstein
Emmy Rossum Photo
Emmy Rossum as Claire Addison
Sandi Ross Photo
Sandi Ross as Teacher
Peter Keleghan Photo
Peter Keleghan as Dean Wallace
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
786.48 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 3
1.42 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Cari-8

Excellent family fare in the longstanding Disney tradition...

Disney continues to garner praise for family films, this time for "Genius", a well-conceived, well-paced, delightful comedy with a talented cast. Essentially, this is a story about growing up and feeling the need to belong-- with a twist of slapstick, mistaken identity, college hockey and a particle beam accelerator. Quite an accomplishment.In the tradition of Merlin Jones--probably Disney's most famous teen genius (see The Monkey's Uncle and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones)--we meet Charlie Boyle, our hero, obsessed with hockey, physics, and fitting in. Trevor Morgan is wonderful in this dual role as Charlie/Chaz...he has a lot of presence for a kid his age, and a lot of promise. Emmy Rossum is very charming and natural as Claire Addison--sweet and tomboyish, she lends a little romance to story. The always incomparable Charles Fleischer is featured as Dr. Krickstein, giving a great performance as Charlie's hero, mentor and friend, and showing of his rollerblading skills in the process...I'd love to see Disney team up Charlie, Claire and Dr. Krickstein again...there's endless adventure potential here! Take advantage of it!
Reviewed by MovieAddict2016 2 / 10

A pathetic and insultingly childish fantasy set in reality

This film has been made dozens of times in other forms. This "Disney Original" idea is a complete laugh - if this is considered original, then I'm Abraham Lincoln. And I can't be Abraham Lincoln because I believe he is dead.Trevor Morgan (you may remember him as the annoying kid from "Jurassic Park III") plays a complete nerd and mathematical genius who basically lives underneath a school ice hockey stadium. It is there that he constructs magical potions using science and math.However he realizes he's not exactly catching any ladies, so he adopts the persona of "Chaz" (his real name is Charlie) to woo the ladies - enrolling in school again and becoming a "bad boy" who talks back to teachers and looks "cool." News flash: Kids stopped wearing Fonzie-style leather jackets to school in the 1960s. If anything, it's retro. It doesn't make you look cool. You don't gain instant respect by showing up at school with a leather jacket, a comb and a smirk and talking back to teachers. Today, in the age of gangsta rappas and emo, you would be laughed at and ridiculed. "Chaz" would become an instant outcast and his plan would backfire.But in "Genius" all the kids are 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 boys at school respect him.It would be kind of funny if it weren't so sad to actually think some Disney TV executive greenlit this and thought the concept of a 12-year-old high school graduate living in an underground lab who adapts a new persona of a leather-jacket wearing freak would be successful.
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