MOVIE REVIEW:

The film is based on a Steve Bloom's book "The Stand-In", which happens to be the name of the app that Brooks' bestfriend Murph (Odiseas Georgiadis) developed so girls can have easy access in booking and customizing Brooks as a date or a boyfriend. While saving and enjoying the perks of being whoever he is required to be, he then lose some important people in the process - including himself.

Like a typical teen movie, "The Perfect Date" tackles the challenges that youngsters usually face - figuring out who they are and accepting who they are not. There will be some bumps along the road but those bumps will just make you realize the things that really matter - honesty to the people around you and moreso honesty to yourself.

"The Perfect Date" is a feel-good movie indeed. It is not a rom-com movie that tries to differ itself from other rom-coms. It is an experience and a reminder. My young heart is very happy! ❤️

Noah Centineo's charms never fail. With successful rom-com movies, we know that he will still deliver as he already knows the right mix of it. Though I'm craving for a new genre from this Netflix superstar, but who knows, he might surprise us with a different Noah on his upcoming projects.

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04.17.2019

Rating:

7/10

"The Perfect Date" is about a high school student named Brooks Rattigan (Noah Centineo), who is desparate to get into Yale University for college. He's a guy who has an appreciation of the finer things in life as they - Brooks and his dad - just have the right amount, enough to go on with their lives.

After dating Celia Lieberman (Laura Marano) for a pay and the priviledge to ride a badass car, he sorted to the idea of making money out of it to save for his Yale University dream -

be a girl's stand-in, where he can be whoever the girl wants him to be - from a dance partner to a preppy to a chauffeur to an art connoiseur to a douche to a nerd at heart to a cowboy to being a listener to being talkative to everything that his client wants him to be. But nothing to worry it's clean. It is not like you can lay with him. As how Brooks put it - "Every gigolo is a male but not all male is a gigolo."

Laura Marano didn't have my buy-in at first, though I like her character Celia - weird, intelligent and confident - she seems exaggerated. But as the story goes, she grew on me. And came to love her at the end of it. Not sure if this is Laura's goal or this is how she is supposed to do it. Or maybe that is just Laura's magic as an actress.

"The Perfect Date": An Experience and A Reminder

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It is definitely a chick movie!

Casting Noah Centineo to play the lead is just a crystal clear reason why a lot of girls will be drawn to this film. This move from its director Chris Nelson and Netflix itselt knows that Noah is the right propeller to make this rom-com movie go over the heights in terms of making noise and getting Netflix subscribers excited and pre-emptive at the same time.