The Perfect Score (2004)

Redundant and unnecessary.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Honestly, I wasn't expecting to like it. The movie was made 14 years ago & the stars are all grown up now. I love several of them now so I thought I would give their teen movie a peep. So glad I did! A teen themed movie that doesn't make me feel like my intelligence has been insulted. I'm amazed it slipped past me 14 years ago!

The Perfect Score is a teenage heist film about a group of students who plot to break into the SAT headquarters to steal the answers of the test so they can all pass and continue on with their merry way. Their reason? They believe since the SAT creators don't play fair, they don't have to either.The students in the film make excellent points about standardized testing. One of the boys claims that they tell you from day one in school to be unique, but then they give you the same test, treating you all as the same students. Grades and GPA's don't matter come time for the ACT and SAT. You can be the best in your grade, and average student, or the class idiot and you'll get the same test.Irony stems from that, and the fact that you're being tested on all the things you'll most likely learn in College. Not to mention, the teachers and the school get money and more funding if they find out your school has the best test scores. It's a grade that defines you, and all also profits the school.Director Brian Robbins directed many early Nickelodeon shows such as All That, and one of my all time favorites, Kenan & Kel. He even was the man behind the camera in Good Burger, a childhood favorite of mine. He has his name on a lot of things I like, but if only The Perfect Score could add to that list.The story focuses on teens of all different stereotypes (the sports player, the outsider, the average kid, the below average kid, the good girl, and the stoner) who want to overthrow the system and sneak into the SAT headquarters, print the answers to the test, do well, and move on with their lives. They're heist becomes a lot more difficult when they realize they will have to fill out the answers one by one on the spot while trying to avoid getting caught. But in the end, they wind up learning something more about themselves and each other.It's a cute story, and it has certain ambition and appeal. But the characters never morph past their stereotypes like a film like this would suggest. One of the characters mentions The Breakfast Club, so now I feel obligated to compare it to that. In The Breakfast Club, the characters started out as stereotypes, but along the way, showed that they were more sincere than reality had made them out to be. It shows that the five kids in detention aren't as shallow as they seem.In The Perfect Score, the characters seem like they'll make progress and morph into better people, but it simply never happens. Everyone's likable, everyone's young and vibrant, but the overall effect is underwhelming at best. Not to say some scenes aren't enjoyable or some characters are poorly written, but the storyline is sketchy, believability is slim, and the optimism turns into dead dreams. It's one of those teen films where after you watched it, you feel like you watched it. Not like you lived or relived it.Starring: Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, Scarlett Johansson, Darius Miles, and Leonardo Nam. Directed by: Brian Robbins.

this movies characters were all based on tiring stereotypes. the acting was completely unbelievable and cheesy especially the Japanese's stoner. To cut straight to the point i could easily put this on the worst movies ever list it was so horrible that I'm till having flashback from the terribleness of this movie i almost thought nickelodeon made it.if it was in a dollar bin at some dollar store it still wouldn't be worth a dollar. i think that what should done with all the copies of this horrible excuse for a movie is that they should be collected up and rocketed to the sun so that this movie can no longer exist. as well as having everyone who watched this craps brain erased so they forget it.

Six anxiety ridden teens, Chris Evans, Erika Christenson, Leonardo Nam, Darius Miles, Scarlett Johanssen and Bryan Greenburg are having panic attacks over the impending Scholastic Aptitude Tests aka the infamous SAT which will determine whether you go to an Ivy League School or MacDonald clown college. Don't tell them anything different.What to do but hatch a plan to steal the answers and get The Perfect Score which will put you on the path to fame, glory, and riches, whatever priority you have.The Perfect Score is a new millennial version of The Breakfast Club and it even has the same number of troubled youth who spent that afternoon in detention discovering themselves. It's not as serious ultimately as The Breakfast Club was, but at least this one included a black and Asian teen in the mix.Although Chris Evans and Scarlett Johanssen have gone on to have the most substantive careers at this point, the best in the film hands down is Leonardo Nam. He's the perpetually stoned one who is the most underachieving in the class, but he turns out to be the one who makes lemonade with lemons life hands him. Nam is also interesting in that he's the one who seems to be rebelling against an Asian stereotype in that those young people are the smart overachievers. In any event he steals every scene he's in.The Perfect Score is a nice teen comedy about six unlikely people who bond together in an objective and develop relationships and aspects of their character they never thought to have possessed.