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The Perfect Score (2004)

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Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 108
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 90

Neither funny nor suspenseful, this heist / teen flick also fails to explore its potentially socially relevant premise.

20

Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 24

Neither funny nor suspenseful, this heist / teen flick also fails to explore its potentially socially relevant premise.

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49

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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 48,812

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Movie Info

Produced by MTV Films, The Perfect Score is a teen crime comedy about a group of high school students who decide to steal the answers to the SAT exam. Kyle (Chris Evans) wants to be an architect, but his scores are too low to get into the school of his choice. Matty (Bryan Greenberg) is heartbroken when he is rejected from the school to which his girlfriend goes. Good girl Anna (Erika Christensen) is pressured by her parents to excel in academics and remain innocent. Desmond (Darius Miles) is a

PG-13, 1 hr. 33 min.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

Marc Hyman, Mark Schwahn, Jon Zack

Jun 29, 2004

$10.3M

Paramount Pictures

Cast

All Critics (120) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (92) | DVD (16)

Next time, director Robbins and his screenwriters should spend a few hours inside a real high school rather than re-hashing stock stereotypes from bad '80s movies.

January 31, 2004 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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Lively and fun in places, but overall it has a listless, tepid feel.

January 31, 2004 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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Talks a pretty good game, but in the end the numbers just don't add up to much.

January 30, 2004 Comment
Washington Post
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A bizarre mismatch of The Breakfast Club and Mission: Impossible.

January 30, 2004 Comment
Washington Post
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Is there not something just plain wrong with a movie about cheating on exams that's less fun than taking one?

January 30, 2004 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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A dull film with unsympathetic characters brought together by a gimmicky premise that's handled with no imagination and a pristine fraudulence of emotion.

January 30, 2004 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Not terrible, but this MTV teen movie falls flat.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Squarely aimed at teens with little regard for anyone else...

August 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

The work of a filmmaker and team of writers so conscious of their own formulaic crutch that they demand a production that feels like more than the sum of its parts.

September 16, 2004 Comment
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

I think it's rationally impossible for anyone who scored at least a 500 on the verbal section of the SAT to want to sit though this tripe.

June 12, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

There are three extras, including a decent but uninspired (just like the movie) commentary by director Brian Robbins and screenwriter Mark Schwahn.

June 2, 2004 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

The Perfect Score is amenable, enjoyable and as quickly forgotten as all those tricks you learned in your SAT prep class.

April 16, 2004 Comment

What could, and should, have been as fun and daring as skipping school turns out to be as dull as a two-hour detention.

March 16, 2004 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Perfect Score

Kids are pretty stupid. SATs really don't mean that much. If they couldn't get into the college they applied, they could've gone to a community college and transferred over. No big deal. Anyway the movie was kind of boring, and really cliched. Like so many cliches, no joke. I only watched it because I didn't have

August 27, 2011
Japes
J P

Super Reviewer

Francesca: You look like a slut. I like it. "The S.A.T. is hard to take. It's even harder to steal."The Perfect Score is a horrible teenage heist comedy that makes no effort to do anything original with it's characters or situations. Some of the worst performances I've ever seen done for cliche teenagers. The worst

August 24, 2011
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Melvin White

Super Reviewer

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