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This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The Perfect Score (2004): Dir: Brian Robbins / Cast: Erika Christensen, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, Darius Miles: Pathetic showcasing about how we are evaluated based on test scores. The screenplay assembles six types as oppose to personalities and involves them in a scheme to steal the SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) answers and then throw in a phony revelation where they realize that they don't need it. What a crock. Director Brian Robbins has made garbage before in the form of Good Burger and Ready to Rumble but this time he has a difficult time keeping that boom microphone from bobbing into frame. Perhaps he should try to figure out what he did right with Varsity Blues. Among the cast is Erika Christensen playing the typical snob who wishes to defy her parents. One must wonder how Scarlett Johansson went from Lost in Translation to this? Was she having a bad day? Did she lose a bet and become the butt of a cruel pay up? Chris Evans, Darius Miles and Bryan Greenberg also make forgettable appearances. There is a half-ass theme regarding abilities ignored in favour of test scores but this film scores low and contains no ability in any department. Its potential arguments are second hand to the ridiculous storytelling. Best advice is to scrape this film into a trash bin and that would be the perfect score for any victimized viewer. Score: 1 / 10

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 movie is dismal, unfunny, and causes one to wonder why this movie was made in the first place. We know about the SAT and the complaints about how these standardized tests are given so much weight in determining one's eligibility for admission to college. But this movie trivializes that issue and reduces it to a mere subject for a weak, phlegmatic story. Then again, one can wonder if this vacuous movie is even worth any commentary. Once again Hollywood takes a sensitive subject and makes it into artistic mush. The pressure placed on high school students to get into college is a major problem and this movie further confirms that Hollywood does not have the answer.

Six students plan a heist operation to steal the answers of their upcoming SAT... the plot is simple and definitely not that original. The characters are quite stereotypical, they speak predicted dialogues and their actions don't prove any innovation of the screenwriters. Still, this movie produced by MTV doesn't appear as boring, irritating or silly. On the other hand it has some occasional funny moments like Francesca as Trinity in her daydream etc.The cast is actually the main reason I watched this film. Scarlett Johansson looks great and pulls off a nice professional performance. Erika Christensen and Chris Evans are also there but I didn't recognize the other guys. The bottomline is that I didn't really think this movie is bad at all... it's a fine one to watch in a relaxed mood.