The Perfect Score (Widescreen Edition)
|
Our Price: $9.98 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of The Perfect Score (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: A perfect story, an incomplete execution
Summary: 2 Stars
I remember when this film came out. I remember that because it was during the same time period where I had lots of school work to take care of. I was studying for my mid year exams and not that long ealier, I had taken the PSAT's. A movie this kind of plot, a bunch kids stealing test scores, definetly got my attention. At the time, there was also another comedy in theaters-Eurotrip. From the commercials, I thought the Perfect was going to laugh out loud funny and Eurotrip was just going to be some dumb retarded comedy. However I did miss both films when they were in theaters but I did catch'em when they were later on tv. Here is what's ironic-I found Eurotrip to be hilarious (and one of my favorite films today) and The Perfect score to be a complete waste of time. Obviousely this movie was really dissapointing.
Kyle is a role model student with good grades and hopes of being an architect. However, he finds himself having difficulty on SAT. His friend Matty is an underachiever who would like to do well on the SAT so he can go to the same college as his girlfriend. They both conclude that the SAT is kinda pointless (b/c it doesn't test you on how smart you are) and unfair (b/c its standing in their way) They enlist the help of Francessca whose father owns the building of where the SATs scores are located. Kyle also slips the plan to his crush Anna, a very intelligent student whose has some the best academic achievements in school but finds trouble with the SAT. Anna brings in Desmond, a start basketball player who needs a 900 or better to get into college. The last person to join the team is Roy a slacker and stoner. With their combined brain power, the can devise a perfect plan in order to achieve the perfect and thus create a happy and bright future.
A movie with a plot like this sounds funny. However, it ultimatley failed to deliver laughs. The only scene I laughed at was when Kyle's brother said what his score (it was something really LOW like 125). The movie does try to be funny but in the end, it really just tries to force the audience to laugh. I am gonna go watch Eurotrip now.
Movie Review: Fun Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a fun movie if you like teen flicks. It takes a shallow look at teen problems and the SAT but moves along and is well acted.Movie Review: It's Just About the Stars.
Summary: 3 Stars
The plot of THE PERFECT SCORE is easy enough: six very different high school students bond together to steal the answers to the SAT test the night before it is administered. The movie takes a little while to build up and tries to be a teen version of THE BREAKFAST CLUB meets MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. Unfortunately, the people who originally came to see this film (and the ones whom MTV marketed it to) weren't really coming to watch a movie; they were coming to see the people who were starring in the movie. The girls wanted to see Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, and basketball player Darius Miles while the guys came to see Erika Christensen and Scarlett Johansson. Therefore, though the movie has an interesting set-up, it never really delivers and ends up being just another teen movie that most people will forget fifteen minutes after watching it. I enjoyed watching the movie, but outside of the people who star in it, there's nothing outstanding about it.Movie Review: Good Showcase for Chris
Summary: 4 Stars
The film is all about the SATs and I'm surprised that ETS allowed them to make it. Certainly it makes ETS look like a company with a bunch of nitwits running it, and in addition shows that they have lousy security and any bunch of six random idiot teens could break in and get all of the answers to any particular SAT exam. Was product placement so important to ETS that they let the filmmakers run down their whole organization in this way? This is not even to mention the gfeneralized, pervasive indictment of the whole SAT system that the Scarlett Johansson character, Francesca, spouts throughout the whole movie and which is, indeed, the movie's most interesting selling point. It's like the FAHRENHEIT 911 of standardized testing.
Otherwise it falls into a slavish imitation of THE BREAKFAST CLUB, with a bit of HARRY AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE thrown in, redeemed by the presence of the divine Chris Evans, who makes every movie he's in an overwhelming visual and sensory experience, as though Aldous Huxley had released some pleasure-inducing "soma" gas into the ventilation system of the theater you're watching him in. Is he a real person, or actually a god come to earth to provide nirvana to the millions? Here he plays "Kyle," sort of a switch up for Chris in a way, as the thoughtful would-be architect who can't get good enough SAT scores to get himself into Cornell. ("Cornell University," the guidance counselor adds, just in case we were thinking it was Cornell Community College Kyle was aiming for.)
Chris has played characters called Jake, Adam, Ben, Bryan AND Ryan, Seth, Bryce and Johnny Storm, but Kyle is one of his best parts yet. A row of perfection, like clay ducks in a shooting gallery, each identical, all of them ideal.
Movie Review: Doesn't Score a Bull's Eye: Mildly Entertaining But Trite and Forgettable
Summary: 2 Stars
Six high school students plan to steal the answers to the upcoming SAT tests. This idea surely sounds interesting, and so are the names of the actors involved here, especially when Scarlett Johansson is among them. However, director's awfully trite, mediocre treatment completely ruined the central idea, and even Johansson, talented as she is, does not look like the same player you have seen in other better films that made her name famous.
Actually Ms. Johansson, who looks nice as a punk girl Francesca, might be the only reason for you to watch the dull and unfunny film (though she is not top-billed). The six characters we see in `The Perfect Score' are just the six stereotypes we find in high school dramas - Chris Evan's character Kyle wants to be an architect and he has a best friend Matty (Bryan Greenberg). Yes, that sort of things, so you also see a stoner Roy (Leonardo Nam) who can be a brilliant genius when he wants to, and a nice Afro-American guy Desmond who wants to be a professional basket player. And meet Ms. Christensen's dead serious character whose mother is terribly obsessed with education. Finally cameo Matthew Lilard pops up as a concerned brother to one of them, playing the guitar, doing jam session with a hair dryer.
The actors are doing their best, but with this weak script, whose story is deprived of its possibly edgy aspects, they can do nothing but repeating the tricks other actors had done in the high school comedies in the past. Everything looks like coming from some stock footage, and director Brian Robbins seems satisfied with this mildly entertaining portraits.
As to the students' heist plans, it must be said that it is too perfunctory that even with the suspense of disbelief, it never interests and convinces us. At the end credit the film makes it clear that the people at ETS (responsible for the SAT tests) didn't participate in the making of the film. Maybe they should have, and told the filmmakers how they guard information about the tests or the files in their building. The six students can break into the building so easily, as if watered-down version of `Mission Impossible,' that watching them sneak into the institute is no fun at all.
And the film has virtually nothing else to show us. The film is mildly amusing all through, and that's all I can say with confidence. `The Perfect Score' is so afraid of offending us with the initial concept, and you can feel it pulling punches.