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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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  • It's a film about 6 teenagers from diverse backgrounds - among them the school's star basketball player - who conspire to break into a SAT testing center to steal the answers in hope of acing their exam. They quickly realize that the answer to their problems and the key to their happiness do not lie in achieving a perfect score.
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    ... Tries in vain to be both The Breakfast Club and Ocean's Eleven.

    Full Review Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) | comment Comment
    02/06/04
    Greg Maki
    Greg Maki
    Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
    N/R

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    Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
    02/05/04
    Orlando Weekly

    Ocean's Eleven goes to high school and flunks out in a dumbed-down caper film.

    Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
    02/05/04
    Thomas Delapa
    Thomas Delapa
    Boulder Weekly

    In the end, everyone learns to do the "right" thing and, essentially, fulfills his or her standardized role in society.

    Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | comment Comment
    02/05/04
    Ed Gonzalez
    Ed Gonzalez
    City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

    An even more lame-brained sitcom than that in which director Brian Robbins starred many eons ago.

    Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
    02/05/04
    Michael Dequina
    Michael Dequina
    TheMovieReport.com

    ...watchable enough

    Full Review Source: Talking Pictures (U.S.) | comment Comment
    02/04/04
    Tony Toscano
    Tony Toscano
    Talking Pictures (U.S.)

    Somewhere around the 20-minute mark, I was convinced that the title was a typo, and they really meant The Perfect Snore.

    Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
    02/04/04
    Ken Hanke
    Ken Hanke
    Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    The characters are united in an ability to be more boring than anybody who went to high school in the real world.

    Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
    02/04/04
    Mark Palermo
    Mark Palermo
    Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
    N/R

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    Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
    02/03/04
    Christy Lemire
    Christy Lemire
    San Francisco Examiner

    Unfortunately, here's the new math: Promising premise + pretty good heist plan = One Bad Movie.

    Full Review Source: Lowell Sun | comment Comment
    02/03/04
    Austin O'Connor
    Austin O'Connor
    Lowell Sun

    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.

    Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
    02/03/04
    Jim Lane
    Jim Lane
    Sacramento News & Review

    Teenage stereotypes have seldom been done worse than this.

    Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment Comment
    02/02/04
    Joshua Tyler
    Joshua Tyler
    CinemaBlend.com

    Why must MTV stiffle the real talents of Brian Robbins?

    Full Review Source: Film Snobs | comment Comment
    02/02/04
    Jimmy O
    Jimmy O
    Film Snobs

    Presents itself as the first SAT protest film... but predictably becomes a toothless pep rally for business as usual...

    Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
    02/02/04
    John Beifuss
    John Beifuss
    Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

    “The Perfect Score” flunks its way right off the screen and right into the juvenile halls of film gone bad.

    Full Review Source: EDGE Boston | comment Comment
    02/02/04
    David Foucher
    David Foucher
    EDGE Boston

    With a little more anti-authoritarian spirit, The Perfect Score might have been a rousing call to arms for a whole generation.

    Full Review Source: Aisle Seat | comment Comment
    02/01/04
    Mike McGranaghan
    Mike McGranaghan
    Aisle Seat

    Begins to feel like The Break and Enter Club.

    Full Review Source: eye WEEKLY | comment Comment
    02/01/04
    Adam Nayman
    Adam Nayman
    eye WEEKLY

    As standardized as the exam it seeks to debunk, and nearly as tedious.

    Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
    02/01/04
    Marc Savlov
    Marc Savlov
    Austin Chronicle

    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.

    Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
    02/01/04
    Michael Tunison
    Michael Tunison
    Boxoffice Magazine

    The Perfect Score is not very academic...doesn’t make the grade as convincingly as it should have in its showcase of mischievous adolescence.

    Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
    01/31/04
    Frank Ochieng
    Frank Ochieng
    Movie Eye
     
     
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