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The Perfect Score (2004)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:5
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: Neither funny nor suspenseful, this heist / teen flick also fails to explore its potentially socially relevant premise.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for language, sexual content and some drug references
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jan 30, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $10,279,192
Synopsis: High school senior Kyle (Chris Evans) gets a major shock when he discovers his SAT score isn't good enough to get him into college as an architecture major. A perfectionist, Kyle's resilient nature... High school senior Kyle (Chris Evans) gets a major shock when he discovers his SAT score isn't good enough to get him into college as an architecture major. A perfectionist, Kyle's resilient nature is sparked when he embroils his best friend Matty (Bryan Greenberg) in a madcap scheme to steal the SATs. The boys soon realize the enormity of the task ahead of them, and recruit an eclectic bunch of willing accomplices to help. Among their group are Francesca (Scarlett Johansson), an anti-authoritarian hipster whose father happens to work in the building where the elusive test scores are kept; Anna (Erica Christensen), an overachiever who flunked the test due to nerves; Desmond (Darius Miles), the school's star basketball player who wants to get into a good college; and Ray (Leonardo Nam), a hapless stoner who is only included in the group after overhearing Kyle and Matty planning the robbery in the school bathroom. Determined not to fail, the students overcome their different backgrounds and manage to work together by planning an SAT heist in meticulous detail. As the harebrained scheme becomes a reality, moments of bonding, hilarity, and a few lessons in life ensue, as well as a sly critique of the tests along race and gender lines. [More]
Starring: Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, Scarlett Johansson
Starring: Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, Scarlett Johansson, Darius Miles, Leonardo Nam, Tyra Ferrell, Fulvio Cecere, Matthew Lillard, Lorena Gale, Lynda Boyd, Michael Ryan, Robert Clarke, Alfred E. Humphreys
Director: Brian Robbins
Director: Brian Robbins
Screenwriter: Mark Schwahn, Marc Hyman, Jon Zack
Producer: Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman, Brian Robbins, Mike Tollin
Composer: John Murphy
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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Jul 14, 2009
Reviews for The Perfect Score
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.
Talks a pretty good game, but in the end the numbers just don't add up to much.
Is there not something just plain wrong with a movie about cheating on exams that's less fun than taking one?
A dull film with unsympathetic characters brought together by a gimmicky premise that's handled with no imagination and a pristine fraudulence of emotion.
It's not funny, though it tries to be, and it has nothing serious to say about the politics of the SATs, though it purports to.
When the most entertaining thing about a film is the printed press material that mimics the look of the test, you know you're in trouble.
Fails to gain admission into the elite group of inspired teen comedies.
Scribes Marc Hyman, Mark Schwahn and Jon Zack have crafted a snappy romp about right, wrong, and the teasing in-between.
It's too palatable. It maintains a tone of light seriousness, and it depends on the caper for too much of its entertainment value.
Its rebel yell takes a back seat to the inevitabilities of the squeaky plot.
Even among the ranks of the diminutive, this one's got nothing to boast about.
Strains to be a hip splice of Ocean's Eleven and The Breakfast Club, but plays more like a never-ending civics lecture, trying to mask its pervasive lameness in visual zip and savvy reference points.
This is the sort of movie that panders to teens ... while it ineffectually lectures them about the need to bear down on the books.
Six New Jersey teenagers conspire to steal the answers to the SAT in this thin, pleasant teenage heist comedy.
Almost nothing about this MTV production, a heist movie about standardized testing, works.
The story is flimsy, and when the dialogue touches on controversial issues regarding the SAT and its fairness, the slacker tone turns abruptly melodramatic.
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