How to Build a Better Boy (2014)

• Year: 2014
• Released: 15 Aug 2014
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 2 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3098874/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/how_to_build_a_better_boy
• Metacritics:
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, French
• MPA Rating: TV-G
• Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
• Runtime: 90 min
• Writer: Jason Mayland
• Director: Paul Hoen
• Cast: China Anne McClain, Kelli Berglund, Marshall Williams
• Keywords: high school, robot, teen comedy, fake boyfriend, robot boy,

	5.3/10
	57% – Critics
	57% – Audience

How to Build a Better Boy Storyline

Follows high school sophomores Mae Hartley and Gabby Harrison, two tech-savvy best friends who devise a plan to create the perfect boyfriend with just a few strokes of the keyboard and a wireless connection. What Gabby and Mae don’t realize is that the computer they use is set up to generate a robotic super soldier, which they have inadvertently activated in the form of Albert, a macho yet sensitive super cute boy.—Disney Channel

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“Super cute candy sugar in my eye holes… Sir!”

So what’s an old man doing, reviewing a so-called ‘DCOM’? Well, I’m an English language teacher in Asia, so I skim all these movies to see if there are any that are good enough for me to use in a classroom… that won’t make me throw up!

Finally, Disney TV made a movie for teachers like me!

(I’ll edit this down to an hour, add hardcoded subtitles and rename it ‘My Robot Boyfriend!’ and my young students will be gurgling all over this!)

So, here I am reviewing a Disney TV movie!

This movie is great fun. It’s silly, of course and the idea of it is preposterous, but it’s great fun for the audience it’s aimed at. No hidden morality propoganda – other than it’s good to have a best friend who’s got your back!

It gets the 8 stars, NOT for being an 8-star movie out of all the movies ever made, but for being an 8-star movie in its class.

Kelli and all the young players are great and did their jobs well, but the real star of the show (for me) was Ieva Lucs who plays the seemingly uptight- but inwardly emotional, Major Jenks.

She delivers the best line of the movie. When asked to read off a witness statement about the handsome missing robot she says…

“Yes… she said he was ‘super cute candy sugar in my eye holes and the honorary mayor of Hunky Town,’ Sir!”

Brilliant!

I would love to have seen the honorary mayor of Hunky Town have more fun with his super powers, but that’s the little boy in me and this one is for the little girls!

Anyway, my point is that even grown ups won’t have to have a bucket on stand-by when they sit down to watch this. It’s fast moving, great fun and a super little modern fairytale.

Really?

I guarantee that if the title were, “How to Build a Better Girl”, there’d be an outrage. As a guy, I find the very title and concept of the movie offensive. There are a lot of guys who try our best to make the women in our life happy, who actually care. A movie basically outlining an ideology of how men “should” be to make them “better”, could really hurt the self esteem of some young men who try their best. Wouldn’t recommend this movie to anyone.

This Movie Is Very Cliche!

I love Disney, but this movie was Extremely cliche, for example, the 2 main characters have to wear glasses and be hated by everybody to show that they are nerds. And the jock has to be bad at math and of course the nerds like him but he doesen’t like her back. I also thought this movies acting was very wooden and bland. The only thing I seemed to like was that China Anne McClain was in it. I not saying this movie is a bad movie necessarily, but it’s just not Disney’s best work.