... Tries in vain to be both The Breakfast Club and Ocean's Eleven.
The Perfect Score (2004)
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Reviews Counted:104
Fresh:17
Rotten:87
Average Rating:3.7/10
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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Reviews for The Perfect Score
Ocean's Eleven goes to high school and flunks out in a dumbed-down caper film.
In the end, everyone learns to do the "right" thing and, essentially, fulfills his or her standardized role in society.
An even more lame-brained sitcom than that in which director Brian Robbins starred many eons ago.
Somewhere around the 20-minute mark, I was convinced that the title was a typo, and they really meant The Perfect Snore.
The characters are united in an ability to be more boring than anybody who went to high school in the real world.
Unfortunately, here's the new math: Promising premise + pretty good heist plan = One Bad Movie.
The script ... is chock full of callow teenybopper deep-think about how unfair the SAT is, but it's more interesting for the different ways the students justify their foray into high-tech burglary, and for the way they pull off the heist.
Presents itself as the first SAT protest film... but predictably becomes a toothless pep rally for business as usual...
“The Perfect Score” flunks its way right off the screen and right into the juvenile halls of film gone bad.
With a little more anti-authoritarian spirit, The Perfect Score might have been a rousing call to arms for a whole generation.
As standardized as the exam it seeks to debunk, and nearly as tedious.
Marked by jarring jumps in tone from broad comedy to drama, action-suspense and, most ridiculously, earnest 'message' material about the unfairness of standardized testing.
The Perfect Score is not very academic...doesn’t make the grade as convincingly as it should have in its showcase of mischievous adolescence.
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