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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.

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Comedies

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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A generic teen comedy brimming with patronizing stereotypes and lame in-jokes.

Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News | comment Comment
01/29/04
Glenn Lovell
Glenn Lovell
San Jose Mercury News

Obvious, broad and burdened by leaden lines of dialogue that are dropped here and there like demented coconuts.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
01/29/04
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday

Grading on the admittedly weak January curve, it squeaks by with a pass.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
01/29/04
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

Like The Breakfast Club recast as a videogame for simpletons.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
01/29/04
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

Succeeds because at its core it is about the very different pressures very different young adults face, and the test that insists on judging them as one and the same.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
01/29/04
Allison Benedikt
Allison Benedikt
Chicago Tribune

Despite the serious subject matter, director Brian Robbins can't decide whether this is a drama, a satire or an American Pie-style teen spoof, and the film dissolves into a shapeless, weightless mass.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
01/29/04
Melinda Ennis
Melinda Ennis
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The first three minutes are inventive.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
01/29/04
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

...references `The Breakfast Club,' and its few good moments echo the spirit of existential, youthful rebellion captured by that 1985 minor classic.

Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | comment Comment
01/29/04
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

An MTV film that extreme right-wing moralists can be proud of, as it posits a quintessentially American world of racial, intellectual, and sexual conformity.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
01/29/04
Keith Uhlich
Keith Uhlich
Slant Magazine

A perfect bore that flunks every cinematic test.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
01/29/04
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Frankly, those of us for whom the SAT is a distant memory may not find it in our hearts to be all that sympathetic to a bunch of whiny kids afraid to take a test.

Full Review Source: New Times | comment Comment
01/29/04
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

This undercooked high school heist movie is disfigured by flabby dialogue ... unfunny pratfalls and criminally slack pacing.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
01/28/04
John Patterson
John Patterson
L.A. Weekly

Flounders about in a flux of narrative indecision and juvenile confusion.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
01/28/04
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

The way the group finally steals the test and how they use it is really, really ridiculous and a complete cop-out.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
01/28/04
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

Christensen and most of the young men are barely there.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
01/27/04
Ed Park
Ed Park
Village Voice
 
 
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