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Perfect Score, The

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 13 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Crime
Written by:
Mark Schwahn
Marc Hyman (also story)
Jon Zack (also story)
Directed by: Brian Robbins
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 30, 2004
DVD: June 29, 2004
Running Time: 93 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / Germany
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for language, sexual content and some drug references
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Darius Miles, Leonardo Nam, Sonja Bennett, Rob Boyce, and Paul Campbell
A group of teenagers conspire to break into a SAT testing center to steal the answers to their upcoming test and all get perfect scores.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
In addition to being a good-looking movie with a pumping Foo Fighters anthem, "Score" is actually a philosophical argument against our culture of tests.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
The lark-ish Perfect Score is on the high side of the time-killer it sounds like.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
A thin, pleasant teenage heist comedy with a chewy nugget of social criticism buried inside it.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
The cast doesn't impress, the story doesn't compel and the characters are too bland to make people remember them.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Ellen A. Kim
Only Nam, in a pot-induced drawl, infuses the film with great comic timing.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
The comedy about a coterie of high school seniors plotting to steal the answers to the dreaded standardized test talks a pretty good game, but in the end the numbers just don't add up to much.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
It's amiable and smartly paced, if noticeably lacking in conviction.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
You may be able to find parallels between these characters and those in "The Breakfast Club." On the other hand, you may decide life is too short.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
An eminently defensible light entertainment, peopled with characters that are easy to like and care about.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Angel Cohn
Brian Robbins (Varsity Blues) actually has a clear sense of the way 21st-century teenagers behave, and his sleek style keeps the film moving briskly.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
The heist itself is quite nicely filmed herein, but unfortunately, getting to it requires sitting through a bunch of noisy, fussy crap, from the overly busy soundtrack to the irritating narration of stoned guy Leonardo Nam.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly John Patterson
Disfigured by flabby dialogue (You can't put a number on my dreams!), unfunny pratfalls and criminally slack pacing.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
As forgettable as the humor is the film's predictable portrayal of adults as clueless, overbearing cretins.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Luke Sader
The story is flimsy, and when the dialogue touches on controversial issues regarding the SAT and its fairness, the slacker tone turns abruptly melodramatic.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Only sharp dialogue and a suspenseful buglary might have given this lame, quasi morality play some energy. It has neither.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Oh, it's perfect all right. In fact, The Perfect Score is a flawless example of the classic January movie release -- the kind of studio picture that even the studio loathes, and so consigns to the dumping ground of the year's frosty first month.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
It's "Ocean's Eleven" for people who can't count past six.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Attempts at high spirits and the presence of Matthew Lillard all suggest that this is supposed to be a comedy.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
At its core the film is as standardized as the exam it seeks to debunk, and nearly as tedious.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
The script, attributed to Mark Schwahn, Marc Hyman and Jon Zack, is as confused as it is confusing, and the aimless direction by Brian Robbins doesn't help. It was apparently edited with a roulette wheel.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The movie, which strains to be hip in a faux-1985 beat-the-system way, takes such a light view of cheating that it has the ironic effect of rendering the heist that follows utterly innocuous.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
A dull film with unsympathetic characters brought together by a gimmicky premise that's handled with no imagination and a pristine fraudulence of emotion. Aside from that, it's great.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Luckily, life (just like the SAT) has its multiple-choice options. You don't actually have to watch this.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.4 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ron J. gave it a7:
Okay, it's not breakfast club, and maybe the soundtrack tries a little too hard to be Ocean's 11, but it was a good movie, held my attention, and did an excellent job -far better than most teen movies - of capturing a realistic cross-section of teenagers.
Kristin gave it a 10:
Love this movie!!! love bryan greenberg!!! cute, funny movie! i'm totally gonna buy the dvd!
Zybard gave it a 4:
Wow, another movie by mtv that helped create our new dictionary word, "Teensploitation."
Chad S. gave it a 6:
Its another Teen movie. Some characters were well done. Good sountrack. I found it boring, it became predictable, but not pleasently predictible, and it lacked chracter development.
Jessi S. gave it an 8:
I love this movie, it was just....funny:)
Colm gave it a 0:
It amazing that a cast and writing crew that clearly didnt make the grade in elementary school could even spell SAT, yet alone a movie about it.
Rebecca F. gave it a 6:
A fun movie. Good for nothing, however, but a few laughs.
