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A mutant hybrid of a heist movie and The Breakfast Club, The Perfect Score follows a clutch of kids who steal the answers to an upcoming SAT test: An aspiring architect (Chris Evans) who isn't quite achieving his dreams (or his parents' expectations); his middling pal (Bryan Greenburg) whose girlfriend is already in college; an overachiever (Erika Christensen, Traffic) who freezes under pressure; a basketball star (NBA player Darius Miles) whose grades don't match his game; a stoner (Leonardo Nam) who falls into the scheme by accident; and a rich punk girl (Scarlett Johansson) who wants to strike back at her neglectful father. The heist itself is nonsensical, but the interplay of personalities manages to keep the movie afloat. Still, only Nam and Johansson (who, after Ghost World, Lost in Translation, and Girl with a Pearl Earring, is becoming a true movie star) stand out of the bland pack. --Bret Fetzer
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funny
I think this movie is great! The plot to steal the SATs is kinda insane, but it's funny, they all end up being friends/more than friends in the end and there are cute guys. what more could a girl ask for in a teen movie??
Far From Perfect
Apparently the producers of this mess started with a weak screenplay for a genre bridging "teen drama" and "big-time heist" picture. That they actually got a green-light for the project is amazing because the serious scenes manage to be hopelessly lame while falling short of being camp. As the director began to actually visualize the product he panicked (with good reason) and began to add every hook he could to lure viewers (insert basketball star Darius Miles as a ......."basketball star") including comedy and sexploitation. Which was probably a good thing but is so poorly integrated into the story line that its commercial purpose is obvious. Had they gone the full teen comedy route and made the serious scenes slightly more moronic they might have had a fairly entertaining satire of both genres.
Leonardo Nam was added to the cast for comic relief. He plays an Asian version of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High's" Jeff Spacoli. But you have to watch his character closely because there is a lot of subtle physical humor going on that apparently escaped the notice of the director, who failed to emphasize it with close reaction shots-but it is there if you look closely at him in the wide shots.
The obvious comparison is with "Catch That Kid", to which "The Perfect Score" finishes a poor second. While that movie had an even less credible premise, the younger actors in it had a lot more charm than this group of overage teenagers.
Sexploitation note: The sexploitation is confined to the Scarlett Johansson character who does a nice reprise of a "Matrix" scene along with a few other more subtle but enjoyable bits. Johansson actually made this movie just before she started work on "Lost in Translation" which helps explain why she consented to appear in this bomb. She gets to play a rather intimidating character which was probably fun. Fans of Erika Christensen will find nothing here other than puzzlement that she could look this drab and de-tuned.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
Ebert gave this film 0 Stars, which is rare for him
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.
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