Perfect Score

Rating:
Summary: A mediocre score
Review: "Ocean's eleven meets The breakfast club"...sounds pretty good to me. But although the idea sounds good, the performance is not.
Six stereotypes (the jock, the pot-head, the rebel, the pretty girl, the nice guy and average Joe) meet and unite for a common purpose, to steal the answers to the upcoming, and for them all, rather important SAT. This movie could be a waring about just that, the standardization of high-school kids, but it fails tremendously because the movie itself is standard. We have seen these characters in a dozen other teenage movies, and most of those movies have been far better. The character-growth is predictable and so is the dialogue and plot. Not even a brilliant actress like Johansen is able to lift this movie to greater heights.
So is there any point in watching The perfect score? No, there is not. But is that always the point? This movie is quite alright for watching when you don't have the energy for anything "heavy". It won't stay on your mind for the next couple of weeks, but it will give you 90 minutes of light entertainment.

Rating:
Summary: It's Fun!
Review: I really liked "The Perfect Score." It was funny, fresh, an overall good heist movie for teenagers. The brief plot about the film is that it is about six kids who decide to break into the SAT lab testing building and steal the answers to the test, to ensure that they could get into a good high school. The cast is mostly unknowns except for Scarlet Johansson who recently starred in the brilliant "Lost in Translation" and the past film "Ghost World." "The Perfect Score" was trashed by the critics, but I thought it was a good time at the movies. It is not a masterpiece, but it is a great movie, if you see it with an open mind.

The main character is Kyle, who is a high school student that gas dreams of becoming and architect, and study at Cornell. But to get in, he needs a certain SAT score. The same thing happens to his friend Matty, except he wants to go to the University of Maryland to be with his girlfriend. The two plan to steal the test from a nearby lab, but to break in they will need help. They enlist in the help of the daughter of the man who runs the building, Francesca. She and her father don't get along at all, so she is more than happy to help. But Kyle then asks Anna to help them with the plan, even though she is the second best in the class, because not only does he like her, but because when she took the SAT's she complety blanked out, and she doesn't want her parents to be disappointed.

That is not all the people because Anna has basketball school jock Desmond join in. He has the ability to go straight to the NBA after high school, but his mother wants him to go to collage, but he knows he'll have trouble on the test. The final member of the group is the drug addict Roy, who is not planning to take the test, but overheard Kyle and Matty talking about the plan, and thinks that it would be fun. He also threatened to tell about their plan, and the others don't want to take that risk. Finally, the big night comes, and the six have to deal with their own various problems, and also the problem about stealing the answers to the tests.

"The Perfect Score" was more of a comedy than it was a drama. It is not a movie for everybody. It also did not have only comedy, but it also had heart. It was a pretty good lenght. About fifteen minutes from two hours, but the time goes by fast. I probally would recommend this to somebody who wants to see this movie. To the people who think that it looks dumb, they should see it on video, but not ignore it completly. I was satisfied enough to give it a five star rating, and I enoughed it from beginning to end.

ENJOY!

Rated PG-13 for language, sexual contest and some drug references.

Rating:
Summary: entertaining crap
Review: It's about high schoolers who decide to steal the answers to the SAT as that test determines your entire life (actually, it doesn't.) But youy know how in high school you know everything (like the Scarlett Johanssen character who sports a maroon 'femullet') and it is all so dire!!!

The Erika Christensen character Anna was annoying as the too-perfect stressed-out salutatorian. "I haven't done anything!!" Hello -- you are 17, there is not much you can do legally anyway!

The only good characters with a decent storyline are Desmond (NBA star Darius Miles) and the lascivious Roy (Leonard Nam). There is no contrived romance set up between them as there is with "Femullet Francesca" and one bland guy and "Do-Nothing Anna" and the other bland guy. More to the point, they talk about their mothers (Desmond's wants him to get his grades up even though he has a basketball scholarship, Roy's parents are absent throughout everything, and you find out why later.)

Nam portrayed Roy with the perfect comedic timing of a wannabe-pimp. The scene where he is trying to check out Francesca's chest while they are all leaning over the computer is hilarious.

Rating:
Summary: This movie was sooooo funny!
Review: omigod! this movie was hilarious! i couldn't stop laughing! it's a great movie to watch with your friends or when you need a good laugh!!

Rating:
Summary: Its Good
Review: The Perfect Score is a good movie. It is about a bunch of high school people who want to steel the answers to the SAT test. Its kind of like Oceans Eleven. If you liked Oceans Eleven you should watch The Perfect Score.

Rating:
Summary: Just watch this on the Spanish Channels or rent it @ a 1.00
Review: The Perfect Score is a new kind of movie about a group of different teens out to steal or "borrow" the answers to the S.A.T., each for a different reason. It's kind of like a variation of "Oceans Eleven" or "Italian Job" for the young and the restless. Perhaps my favorite movie.

Rating:
Summary: The perfect score is a Perfect hit
Review: The Perfect Score is one of the year's most hilarious movies. The odd-ball cast is brilliant in delievering a weird but convincable story about 6 students who decide to steal the SAT answers in order to secure thier furtures. Scarlett Johansson is wonderful as her role of Fransesca, she plays a hard hearted young punk girl who is devistated from her father always ingnoring her and replacing his love with money. Leonardo Nam plays the always half stoned genius, who accidently finds out on what they are planing on doing. The other actors are brillient in this film as it also has Darius Miles (Desomod), Erika Christensen (Anna), Chris Evens (Kyle) an las but not lest Bryan Greenbur, who plays Matty the young teen who comes up with the idea of stealing the answers to the SAT. If you are into a good laugh and a fun night out this is the movie I advise you to go see.

Rating:
Summary: the perfect movie
Review: There's lots of cliches and stereotypes to endure when watching a high school movie. For the most of it, The Perfect Score manages to avoid most of these cliches though the characters are a bit stereotypical. There's the brainy kid, the rebel, the stoner, the loser, the jock and the good guy. Hardly a breathtaking assortment of originals eh?

But their plan to steal the SAT scores and their interaction together are what make this movie worthwhile. The unimaginative marketing for this movie claims it to be Ocean's 11 meets The Breakfast Club. But the actors are carrying the movie, doing the best they can with weak material, rather than the `wild' premise.

I especially liked Roy, the stoner and narrator as he got the most back story and had more a character arc than the rest of them. And it was pleasant to have the lovely, oh-so-cute Erika Christensen though I'm not too fussed about Scarlett Johansen (she looks like a teenage version of my mother!). A non-Shaggy, but still manic, Matthew Lillard has a small role as a concerned big brother.

You'll not remember it 5 minutes after the credits role but for a non-threatening, easy-going movie The Perfect Score fits nicely. You could do a helluva lot worse. And what else do you expect from an MTV movie?

The DVD is in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen with lacklustre Dolby 5.1, though to be fair it mostly a dialogue-driven movie. There are a bunch of fluff features for those who care.

Rating:
Summary: The Perfect Flop
Review: This has to be the worst film I've seen this year. As the Amazon.com description reads "mutuant hybrid of a heist movie and The Breakfast Club", it's exactly right, but neither story is done well. This film is also filled cliche' upon cliche'. It is not funny. It is not entertaining. It is, however, a good way to waste 90 minutes of life with zero fulfilmment. Not even Chris Evans and Erika Christensen, the "beauties" of the movie, could save this horrible script. No wonder this made it to rental shelves faster than Godzilla did!

I wonder what SAT score the writer/producer got? After seeing this tedious piece of trash, I'd guess not too high.

Rating:
Summary: my second favorite teen movie of all time
Review: this is one of the best movies i've seen. it is halarious to watch and is a great teen movie.