Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Meroujan Oundjian What i most loved about this film is that it shows us all how life really is.We all have our hopes and dreams. The reality is that the faster we all realise human kind is simply on a conveyor belt to slowly assure the evolution of mankind and therefore stop our own extinction. Past that... well there really is nothing past that.. believe in the bible, Koran or Torah... we all have to face reality at one point or another.Watch this film and absorb the multitude of emotions in which we all go through. If you can get past them all. Well done.. you are a less sensitive human being than i am.9/10

a_flynn78 You know how there are stories that are adversity to triumph, unstable to stable, confused to knowing. This is not a happy story, i sat through all the frustrating bits in the movies, putting my shirt over my head whenever he tried to debate with his enormous stutter, thinking its okay, because I'm gonna see some scenes at the end where he has finally lost his stutter. I didn't. Maybe i had the wrong idea when i watched this movie, i was convinced from start till perhaps the last scene, that i was going to see an inspiring transformation, where i would no longer feel sorry for the kid, and that marred my view on the film. All i could think about during the whole film is not what this kid was talking about, what he was thinking about, but how he was speaking. Its like a movie where the main character looks like a bunyip, all you can think about is this main character looks like a bunyip, and not really what he/she is saying. I was convinced the inevitable transformation was going to be in his speaking patterns so i wasn't particularly interested in his views on love, because I'm sorry, i don't mean to be offensive to anybody but having a speech impediment as BAD as that, is something i couldn't bear to hear for the rest of my life, you have to try and do something about it. I thought thats what this movie was about! Look I'm sure what the kid was saying was important, and meaningful, but i was looking for more blunt changes that were imperative to me saying at the end of the movie, wow that was good. The stutter was a vehicle to portray a message about love when i went through the whole movie thinking it was the opposite, that all the references to love would make him lose his stutter. Not a horrible movie, but after i finished watching it, i felt horrible, Im a bit tired of movie producers thinking 'it will be more meaningful if we deprive the movie of a happy ending'. To be honest, i don't need happy endings, but what i do need is some light. At the end of 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' i was left thinking, despite its lack of a cliché happy ending, that the main characters were not doomed because of it, that they could bounce back from the issues in the movie. I felt at the end of 'Rocket Science' that the kid was never going to get rid of his stutter, and when did his last debate and he turned to the judges and said 'Im killing it right?' that he was in fact, not killing it, he sucked, you can't debate in a musical tone, there was no growth there. Was it that hard to put a happy ending in!?!

barakb1992 Though the ridiculously fast speech and demeanor of the "star" debaters in this movie is robotic, terrible form that would fail them in any real debate tournament, and some of the concept was extreme, this movie is as adept as any at showing the kind of venomous, backstabbing, "stop at nothing" kind of individual that our insanely competitive society and high schools is bringing up. While the movie is quite clearly getting so much from Election (one of the best satires of all time), it really is in truth, how so much works in today's high schools and society. High Schools are often a mini-world, a place where the parallels from the rest of society are readily observed, and, it's quite obvious that the message we are teaching our children is "The only way to win, is to cheat." Nothing works without corruption or scheming in our school system today. Whether it be the adept seductress working her magic on fellow students, or the sly student senator toying with a teacher, this kind of ridiculous, absolutely immoral action is occurring daily in our schools, and yes, it works, and yes, those who do not follow this inherently messed up system are dead from the start. Ginny's scheme is a perfect example of the kind of backstabbing, selfish, anything goes attitude we our instilling in the next generation, and eventually, we will pay the price.

ekeby I'm surprised that this film elicits so many negative reviews here. I enjoyed reading the rant by the guy who spells cello "chello." I think that pretty much explains it. Literacy will be required to appreciate this movie.This has to be the best dialog in any film ever made with a stutterer as a central character. I found the performances letter-perfect; not a false note anywhere. This is a movie where even the bit parts are played by well-cast actors, not producers' pretty boyfriends or girlfriends. I loved the girl in the washroom with the nosebleed, for example. Perfect.Rushmore did not come to mind while I watched this film, nor did any of the other "quirky" films named here by other reviewers. But I did think of it as a companion piece to "Welcome to the Dollhouse." Both set in NJ, and both with central characters at the bottom of their school social ranking, and coping with their realities better than one would think.I particularly liked the relationship between adults and kids in this film. The adults (parents and teachers) are wise about the kids, and the kids are just as wise about the adults. The tone was just right.