Hairbrained

1 star: couldn't watch more than 15 minutes. Unwatchable!2 star: jumped my way to the end for the ending. Unwatchable, but interested in how this turd ended.3 star: watched it all, but not happy about it. Nothing better to do.4 star: I watched it, liked it well enough. Would never watch it again.5 star: Great moving picture show! I'll watch it again, and maybe again in a few years.Other than the unknown rule at the end of the game, it was a pretty good movie.

king of the weirdos is on a trivia team with other weirdos, and brendan fraser is there, too.lots of competitions, conflict with a jock, tempting girl, fish-out-of-water, all the college loser/winner tropes.some of the quirkiness seems forced.maybe watch if you need to see something with brendan fraser that youve never seen before. it might not be more interesting than that.

This movie is cute and I loved every minute of it! Brendan Fraser didn't disappoint and the story line was fun.

Sure this movie isn't the film of the year but it's a decent underdog storyline without the dramatic, unrealistic ending of everyone overcoming all their problems. Instead we see a prescient view of how unis like Harvard have a very ugly underbelly. Considering the recent celebrity payola schemes that have come to light this movie is actually a little ahead of its time.Plus it was fun to see Brendan Fraser back on a college campus where he started his movie career.

Okay, Parker Posey was in the film ... but BARELY.She's prominently featured in the credits -- the second name on the credit role -- but that's obviously due to her name recognition. She has about two minutes in this film. Three minutes tops. Posey plays the mother of a kid genius. She drives him partway to college at the film's start. Then she has a brief non-speaking appearance at the very end of the film, going past a supermarket isle. Oh yeah, we also hear her voice on a phone recording midway through the film. That's it for Posey.I mention this because the only reason I bought this film was because Posey is in it. So I'm disappointed, big time.The film itself has a very common, very generic story. A disparate group of freaks and losers find redemption by training for a Big Event. It could be a dance contest, sporting event, whatever. In this case, it's a college quiz game. Everything in the film leads up to the Big Quiz Game against Harvard.This film DRAGGED. The story was unoriginal, but not that bad. But it felt so padded. When I was bored, and felt the film should be nearly over, I checked the time, and I was only 44 minutes into the film. Not even halfway through.The BAD WRITING also included a stupid ending.SPOILER ALERT ...Near the film's end, one of the quiz team's members falls ill. The moderator says they have 3 minutes to find an alternate player to fill in. They do so, and the team wins. But then the Harvard team (which lost) find a rule in the rule book which says that the team should have played with only the remaining member. Having broken the rule, the winning team (our heroes) is now disqualified.The problem is, the moderator TOLD the team to fine an alternate. The team was given the erroneous rule. Naturally, the team relied on the moderator to know the rules, and followed the erroneous rules. So how can the team be disqualified? And why didn't the moderator know the rules to the event he was moderating? And why didn't any judges intervene and correct the moderator before the rule was broken?Nit-picky? Well, when you're watching a dull film that just drags, your mind begins to wander, and you start nit-picking over minutia.My favorite Parker Posey film, BTW, is  Clockwatchers . Check it out.

I'm only giving it 5 stars because I miss Brendan Fraser and I just adore any character he plays. Overall, the drama about the boy and the Harvard thing was a bit lame. I don't get the whole "hair" thing. The kid says it's supposed to protect him against stupidity, but that really doesn't explain much. I don't get why he refuses to cut, comb, brush it out? It just doesn't make sense, and it's a bit gross/distracting.

Modern-day revenge of the nerds, if you're old enough to know what that means- Brendan Frasier's character (maybe more his age) was just as unnecessary as the c-plot of his estranged daughter attempting to attend the same school- no point at all in the plot or arc of the actual story. I got my B.A. degree at age 38...and no one with an about to be college ag child, in any of my classes, was living in a dormitory. None-the-less, a cute coming of age film (however unrealistic), it was entertaining.

I'm only watching this, because of Brandon Fraser.The plot is okay, but the fact that a college girl is hitting on a 14-year old is sick.Switch the roles and it would be inappropriate as well.

Received in good condition and on time. I saw this film before and is a good little comedy. Good acting by all. Nice plot line too, not complicated so just a lovely Sunday Afternoon watch. Brendan Fraser as always is fabulous.

Excellent film , superbly acted by all the cast , totally recommend watch , love the little dude with all the hair lol 😂