The Perfect Score

The Perfect Score
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen
Studio: Paramount
Rating: 3/10

Corporate Line: Six high school students band together and develop a plan to steal the answers for the S.A.T. in order to prevent the test from unfairly defining who they’ll become. Each student in the group has his or her own set of circumstances that leads to the conclusion that the only way to truly decide one’s own fate is to beat the system.

The Good: We all wish we had a copy of the SAT when we had to take them, but this movie doesn’t make you feel any sense of enjoyment.

The Bad: If the SAT were handing out grades for acting they wouldn’t get into McDonalds University. The film spends so much time trying to be cool it stereotypes cool. You wonder as you watch if the film studio isn’t pulling our leg by issuing this as a major theatric release. This wouldn’t be good as an independent film.

Every stereotype is in plain sight. Nothing unique sticks out here instead allowing us to flop around for much too long. It’s as if someone at a film studio said ‘let’s come up with a movie where kids steal the SAT’ and they go out on the street and find a couple middle-aged guys who never went to college to write a script. Actually saying that might offend Middle-aged uneducated men.

Frankly: How can you make a teen movie without a stoner? God forbid you leave that stereotype out. It’s no wondering so many kids smoke pot when Hollywood seems happy to make them good for a laugh. The Perfect Score gets a failing grade.

+ Charlie Craine


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