In 2004, The Perfect Score directed by the well known Brian Robbins, was released as a teen comedy film. The stars in this film were: Bryan Greenberg, Leonardo Nam, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Darius Miles, and Erika Christensen. The Perfect Score as a film focuses it’s attention on a group six individual high school students, which have futures that are going to be put up to grabs if they don’t pass the SAT exam that is approaching. All of the students conspire together in order to break into one of the buildings and then steal the correct answers to their exam so that they will be able to obtain perfect scores. All-in-all, this film deals with an individual’s future, individuality, morality and feelings.
In all actuality, this film has a lot in common with the other movies related to high school, including Dazed and Confused and The Breakfast Club, which are known to be mentioned throughout the entire film. However, most critics panned the film and when it comes to its performance in the box office, it was quiet poor, in fact, and it lost out to You Got Served, the dance film.
The Plot behind the Perfect Score
The Perfect Score revolves around Chris Evan who plays the high school age student Kyle. Kyle needs to obtain a really high score on his SAT in order to be accepted into the architecture program he prefers at Cornell University. Kyle during the movie is constantly comparing himself to Larry, his older brother, who is now occupying the space above his parent’s garage. Bryan Greenberg who plays Kyle’s best friend who is Matty, also wants to achieve a high score on his SAT so that he can also attend the same college of his girlfriend, however he is considered an underachiever that has previously failed his PSAT. Both of these guys feel that the SAT is the only thing that is blocking the way of their futures.
Critics Reactions to The Perfect Score
Almost all of the critics panned this film, on Rotten Tomatoes, the film rate sixteen percent earning the “rotten label”. Keith Uhlich of Slant Magazine called this film an MTV film that all of the extreme moralists of the right wing out there can really be proud of, based on the fact that the film posits what is known as a quintessentially American World of intellectual, racial, and sexual conformity. There were many critics that compare this film unfavorably with the Breakfast Club and there are many that referred to the film as a rip-off.
Considering the Perfect Score?
Even though, the Perfect Score managed to get really hurtful reviews from critics, it isn’t always their opinions that matter. The consumers are the ones that are spending their money on the film and they are also the one’s that can make the film a hit or a failure. If you haven’t taken the time to watch the Perfect Score, now would be the time to do so, so that you could form your own opinion. Remember that you should never take the opinion of someone else over your own.
