Review of Expelled (2014) by Matt O — 27 Apr 2015

Only one of my emotions were left untouched by the end of Expelled. Every other possible choice on the range of emotions that are comprehensible by the human race were demonstrated by me, the viewer, at some point in this movie. Happiness, due to the great casting of every character in the roster and the excellent chemistry that I picked up between our hero, Felix, and his love interest, Katie. I was devastated when our conquering champion's plans went awry, but I was always hopeful that he would be victorious in the end. I felt extreme anger at the overbearing authoritarian forces keeping Felix pressed down into a lowly state of disenrollment. The only emotion I did not feel during the viewing of this modern cinematic masterpiece was disappointment. Every line, scene, character, and situation seemed played out to the best possible manner. The movie was appealing to literally all five senses.

At the start of the film, you get a true sense of the harsh oppressive realities experienced by a white teenage boy living in an upper-class neighborhood. School is simply not enough for this bright young man, as he spends his free time championing his campaign of selflessness throughout his high school, by methods such as transferring ill-gotten monetary gains the cheerleaders had hoarded and donated it to an underprivileged koala bear center. Felix's generosity doesn't stop there, as he also supplied the entire school with countless packs of free chewing gum. Enter our main villain, the dean of students, who wants nothing more than to see the knight in shining armor to suffer. He does this by swiftly and unjustly expelling him from school, a punishment which would prove fatal... if Felix's parents were ever to discover this monstrosity.

The perseverance displayed by this young man is humbling. Every circumstance in which it seems like Felix will perish, another spine-tingling twist occurs that allows him to stay on course of his ultimate goal: re-enrollment to the educational system. There are other topics that the movie delves into. For example, young love blossoms during the film, and due to the amazing chemistry between the two actors, it feels as if the characters come to life with the infatuation they hold for each other. Another theme displayed throughout the feature is the comradery shared between our hero, Felix, and his best friend Danny, who consistently displays his skills as a computer expert. Throughout all the hijinks, the movie honestly made me proud to be an American. Just living in a country where I now know that heroic children like Felix can overcome any obstacles in his path to his goal of reinstatement makes me both ecstatic and humbled. Truly, villains like the dean of students, who can relentlessly withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from the schools funding without fear of any repercussions, need to time and time again be brought to the justice they deserve: punishment for their crimes and humiliation for people to discover and mock the devil the villain is.

I'm not going to get into the specifics of the film itself. I'd like to leave some to the imagination for future viewers of this fine piece of American cinema. In closing, all I can say with complete certainty is that any second of your life spent watching this motion picture will not be a second wasted. In fact, after the credits rolled I felt that I had become a better person simply for having the pleasure of witnessing this miracle film. I now know that there is in fact a God, and He is just for allowing us to create such a masterpiece. I have traveled to the Louvre in Paris, France, and I have seen the Mona Lisa with my own two eyes, and I can say that without a doubt this movie is the most stunningly beautiful piece of art I have ever beheld.