How to Build a Better Boy

2014

Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 3631 3.6K

Plot summary

After inadvertently inputting the qualities of the ideal boyfriend into a high-tech government computer, two social outcasts named Mae and Gabby must contend with Albert, a cybernetic sweetheart with only objective: to treat Mae to the perfect highschool romance.



January 19, 2024 at 07:26 PM

Director

Paul Hoen

Top cast

Noah Centineo as Jaden Stark
China Anne McClain as Gabby Harrison
Kelli Berglund as Mae Hartley
Sasha Clements as Marnie
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851.37 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
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1.71 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by khunkrumark 8 / 10

"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.

Reviewed by Silent_Gaurdian_1 3 / 10

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.

Reviewed by TheUnknownReviewer 2 / 10

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.

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