| The Perfect Score | | Cast : | Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg (II), Scarlett Johansson, Darius Miles, Leonardo Nam | | Director : | Brian Robbins | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned | | Released Date : | January 30, 2004 | | DVD Released Date : | December 29, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | Ebert gave this film 0 Stars, which is rare for him | Content
 | But he isn't too far off with this brainless, idiotic film with a ludicrous plot, characters you absolutely loathe. I think they wasted all their good stuff on Scalett's lines, because their fabulous and she plays this kind of character effortlessly, and with pure brilliancy. However, the writers forgot about the plot, the rest of the characters, and almost every other aspect to this film(including the ridiculous plot twists that made less then no sense). Please, this is an awful film and I can't believe that there are people out there that actually enjoy this, it's a shame. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 22, 2005 | | Summary | The Perfect Score would make John Hughes cringe | Content
| The Perfect Score's main influence is pretty evident within the first 20 minutes: the classic The Breakfast Club. It even is mentioned by one of the characters. While BC centered on a Saturday School session and The Perfect Score is about a group of high school students attempting to steal answers to the SATs, they both have a striking similarity, which is bringing together a bunch of diverse yet stereotypical teenagers for one common goal.
Unfortunately, the filmmakers behind The Perfect Score didn't notice what made the Club so interesting. The kids in The Breakfast Club, by the end, were fully developed characters with backstories that explained why they resorted to representing cardboard cut-outs of high schoolers in their day-to day life. In the Perfect Score, there is no sense of history to the characters and they are still boring. There are only a few segments that show any backstory. A jock is a jock. A brain is a brain. They don't get any more intriguing in The Perfect Score.
Chris Evans, who was in the disgusting Not Another Teen Movie, is now in... well, another teen movie. He and his best friend in the movie, Bryan Greenburg, deliver average, at points solid, performances. Erika Christensen, shows some promise as the brainy over-achiever, and with better material could be a good actress. Scarlett Johanssen gives an okay performance, but like Christensen shows promise. Leonardo Nam is terribly obnoxious, and is playing another juvenile stoner who is supposedly smarter than he appears. I sort of wanted to throttle him by the end. And Darius Miles... where do I even start? He has NO acting ability whatsoever. He shows no emotion throughout the entire movie. He just sort of sits there and takes up space. I would equate his charisma to that of a wet cardboard box.
Although I think the script is very deserving of Miles... |
| Rating | | | Date | March 22, 2005 | | Summary | scarlet is fun to watch - oh, and so is the movie | Content
| Like many I'm sure, I rented this only because Scarlet is in it. I expected a horrible movie, but really it wasn't too bad. Moved along nice. Funny in spots. You got your stressed out students, their goofy plans to steal the SAT scores, and of course you know it's a Hollywood feel-good teen movie, so you know in the end they aren't really gonna USE those scores. That'd make 'em bad, huh? Bad bad bad. ;) But still, it was better than expected and I never once had my finger hovering over the stop button. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 13, 2005 | | Summary | Scarlett Johansson is good | Content
| I am a Scarlett Johansson fan and that is why I bought the movie and she did not disappoint me. This is much better than her performance in the Spider thriller/comedy movie. But this movie suffers from a script that was not thought all the way though and it needed more work on it before they went to production. Still, this is one of the first movies where Scarlett starts to show herself as a superstar. In fact she actually does a little bit of acting, rather then to just have that reflective lost in translation look on her face. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 02, 2005 | | Summary | The perfect score for the perfect movie | Content
| The Perfect Score is another movie in the line of Mtv's attempt at movie making. It's a nonsensical look at the bitter fact that the SAT just plain sucks. With various up and coming actors (Evans, Greenburg [from the widely popular One Tree Hill tv series], Johanssen, and Nam) plus one NBA star (no idea why), the movie's premise is that a group of score challenged high schoolers are going to steal the answers to the SAT.
This movie is worthy of five stars to for several reasons. Not one of which would be the actual story line, but the simplistic and appropriated humor. Greenburg (the reason i rented the movie) has a very funny speech about how the SAT doesn't fight fair after he is conviced the SAT is "pimping out" his girlfriend. Unforgetable is how Nam's character Roy refers to himself as the ghost. He delivers a very humorous performance with a very insightful line about the SAT. All the acronyms for SAT in the film are choice and the script flows well even though it is driven by a very farcical plot. Ryan Phillip also plays a small role as Kyle's (Chris Evan) brother who lives in the families garage. The film is a delight to watch with the excellent charater interaction and nice twist ending. Definately see this movie to get over your SAT anxiety, or just for a nice retreat from all the bland movies out there. |
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