Review of The Perfect Score (2004) by James F — 27 Dec 2007

So I think that I've finally figured out how these MTV movies are made. They just take one of each high school stereotype and siphon out anything that could possibly make them interesting as a character and then add in a small conflict that will lead to all of them ultimately learning a lesson they should have known before anyway. Shake around and cook for about 90 minutes and you've got another crappy MTV movie.

At first I couldn't really remember why the premise of this movie (a group of kids steal the SAT answers). Then I remembered that it's been done a few times before. Check out Cheaters from HBO (made in 2000) and Slackers (made in 2002) for better movies.

The only good part of the entire movie is a 2 second upskirt shot of Scarlett Johansson and that's really only good for straight guys and gay girls so that leaves out a lot of people. Aside from that, there's really no redeeming quality to the entire film. The dialogue is some of the worst I've ever heard and the acting is even worse. Somehow they put together the worst "up-and-coming" actors they could find and had them dumb themselves down to make even those with the lowest IQs understand what they were saying. The "heist" itself could be interesting if you were drunk or if you just suffered a concussion. Otherwise, not much though.

Don't get pulled in by the quote on the front of case that says this movie is "A cross between Ocean's Eleven and The Breakfast Club" because that's a lie. If that's the case, they took aspects from two good movies and put them together to somehow get one bad one.

If you're looking for a good way to kill 90 minutes, go read a book. Stay away from this movie.