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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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    It's the movie sensitive teen-meister John Hughes would have made had he been strapped to a bench, a knife at his throat, with a pulsating garage band score on continuous loop placed two inches from his eardrum.

    Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Evan Henerson
    Evan Henerson
    Los Angeles Daily News

    Screenwriters Mark Schwahn, Marc Hyman and Jon Zack can't decide whether they want Perfect Score to be funny or serious, with the result that it falls short of being either.

    Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Robert W. Butler
    Robert W. Butler
    Kansas City Star

    There's very little tension in The Perfect Score because everything seems to fall into their laps or laptops.

    Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Louis B. Hobson
    Louis B. Hobson
    Jam! Movies

    Oddly paced and emotionally flat.

    Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Liz Braun
    Liz Braun
    Jam! Movies

    Simply uses the test as a reason to assemble six teen stereotypes.

    Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    John Monaghan
    John Monaghan
    Detroit Free Press

    Thuddingly unfunny.

    Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Jeff Vice
    Jeff Vice
    Deseret News, Salt Lake City

    Fails to gain admission into the elite group of inspired teen comedies.

    Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Robert Denerstein
    Robert Denerstein
    Denver Rocky Mountain News
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    Scribes Marc Hyman, Mark Schwahn and Jon Zack have crafted a snappy romp about right, wrong, and the teasing in-between.

    Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Lisa Kennedy
    Lisa Kennedy
    Denver Post

    It's too palatable. It maintains a tone of light seriousness, and it depends on the caper for too much of its entertainment value.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment 1 Comment
    01/30/04
    Roger Ebert
    Roger Ebert
    Chicago Sun-Times
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    Its rebel yell takes a back seat to the inevitabilities of the squeaky plot.

    Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Wesley Morris
    Wesley Morris
    Boston Globe
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    Director Brian Robbins is no John Hughes, though he does strive for 'message movie' status.

    Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Sean Means
    Sean Means
    Salt Lake Tribune

    If we were to give The Perfect Score a SAT score, it would be a 1040--it doesn't pass with flying colors, but it bubbles in a few choice moments.

    Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Kit Bowen
    Kit Bowen
    Hollywood.com

    (Scarlett) Johansson fashions a memorably acidic personality that fits this material perfectly.

    Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Sean O'Connell
    Sean O'Connell
    Filmcritic.com

    Although the comedy is often flat (wow is a Matrix parody dated) and the heist scenes won’t be accused of rivaling Ocean’s Eleven, these characters do resonate.

    Full Review Source: Lawrence Journal-World | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Jon Niccum
    Jon Niccum
    Lawrence Journal-World

    Seems like a not-so-well-thought-out daydream of a 17-year-old.

    Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Phil Villarreal
    Phil Villarreal
    Arizona Daily Star

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    Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Hollywood.com

    Even among the ranks of the diminutive, this one's got nothing to boast about.

    Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Rick Groen
    Rick Groen
    Globe and Mail

    I think my SAT score is too high to appreciate this movie.

    Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
    01/30/04
    Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
    Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
    TheMovieChicks.com

    These generic “insert stoner here” movies will never work, no matter how young you are.Even the least discerning viewer wants to at least watch some kind of character.

    Full Review Source: About.com | comment Comment
    01/29/04
    Fred Topel
    Fred Topel
    About.com

    It's Ocean's Eleven for people who can't count past six.

    Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
    01/29/04
    Marc Mohan
    Marc Mohan
    Oregonian
     
     
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