The Perks of being a Wallflower is based off a hit teen novel and stars Logan Lerman as Charlie, a young man starting high school who finds it difficult to make friends after a tragic event the year before but one day he befriends two seniors, Patrick (Ezra Miller) and Sam (Emma Watson) who help to brighten his cloudy high school days.Perks of being a Wallflower would have to be the best teenage movie to come out since the John Hughes era of the 80's before he moved on to doing kids fare with Uncle Buck in 1989 and why put up that comparison well like those films the three leads and the world they live in feels very real and they themselves feel like real people with real emotions, Watson especially is quite good and it's nice to see her doing a more mature role after the HP series and the chemistry her, Miller and Lerman have is simply wonderful, it made me want to see more from those guys together as they make a very appealing trio.
The film also has a very nice soundtrack to it which makes up for the sometimes worthless orchestral score the film has and it was nice to see actors like Kate Walsh and Dylan McDermott in a film for once.
Sadly though the film has some slight problems in the third act and that is mainly does with the old tried and true technique of having a crisis threaten the relationship of the leads and how it all has to be made right and boy did it make me grumble as I was with the film up to that point, happily though it regained its footing and got back to the strengths of the first 2 acts before the end.
So all in all, The Perks of being a Wallflower was a film I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would despite some storyline stumbles towards the end, it's sad somewhat that there isn't a follow up book after this one as I would've liked to have seen what happened next with these characters but hey if that were to happen then I'd get sick of them after a while so I won't complain, 3 and a half out of 5.
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