ChuckFlixs: The Perfect DateBy Chuck VanHoose April 27, 2019ChucKFlixs reviews are back after almost being gone for a month. I apologize for not having a review in a long time. There where a lot of new releases and I hardly covered any of them. Life happened and things got busy. So here’s to hoping that May is better. Starting in May there will be are new review series here in the website. I’ll also be reviewing Hulu original movies and they will be called VanHulu.

The movie I’ll be reviewing today is The Perfect Date. The movie is about a high school guy named Brooks trying to get into Yale University. In order to to raise money he created a dating app. The dating app allows the girl to pick everything about him. What he wears, how he talks and everything about his personality. But when he meets someone special things quickly become complicated.
This movie was just okay. I didn’t care for a majority of the characters. The concept was interesting but I don’t think it hits full potential.

Positives
One of my favorite characters was Murph who was the best friend of the main character. I found his story more compelling than the main character’s and his wasn’t shown that much. He was played by Odiseas Georgiadis. Some of the dates were entertaining but those scenes didn’t last long.

Middle of the road
Laura Marano plays the love interest in the movie. This isn’t a spoiler because I realized from the trailer. However if you didn’t watch the trailer you will know the second she comes on screen. She gave a decent performance. But I don’t think she was given a lot to work with.

Negatives
My biggest negative is the main character played by Noah Centineo. His character Brooks is a horrible person. If I had to pick a villain in the film it would be him. He’s a jerk to everyone including his dad. His dad is played by Matt Walsh. I can’t rate his performance because he was only in the film so his son could insult him. I was rooting for him not to get into Yale. Which is not what you want for your main plot and character.

The plot movement is this movie was awful. Basically anytime they needed to move the plot forward in a big way there was a school dance. They did this so they could all the characters who went to different schools together. There were 3 school formals in order to drive the story. The movie jokes about this but it doesn’t work.
This could be a cheesy date night movie but it’s completely predictable.

Rating 5.6/10

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