Honestly, I wasn't expecting to like it. The movie was made 14 years ago & the stars are all grown up now. I love several of them now so I thought I would give their teen movie a peep. So glad I did! A teen themed movie that doesn't make me feel like my intelligence has been insulted. I'm amazed it slipped past me 14 years ago!

Maybe the writer of this movie, sat to watch John Hughes's The Breakfast Club (1985), many times, thought about its own leads; these high school different students, whom pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they imagined, then wrote about the idea of them meeting in a night robbery, instead of a morning detention. Or that what eventually seemed !The premise is fine. A heist comedy with heart; where there are 1) Thrill. 2) Comedy. 3) Some drama. I loved points in the script; from situations like when the brainy girl had to get into the already being stolen building; for the heck of it, to touches like the double meaning in the title. The cast is very good. Scarlett Johansson is sexy and talented. Erika Christensen is yet more sexy. Enough to mention that while her running scene, my heart was beating like crazy ! Leonardo Nam is great as the funny stoner, being the biggest comedy this movie has. Even real-life school basketball star Darius Miles manages to do his job so convincingly. Only Chris Evans and Bryan Greenberg aren't charismatic enough. But anyway, Erika Christensen is sexy ! The direction made things hot and snappy; it mastered the thrill of the heist, and some of the visual comedy (as in the team's daydreams), while leading the emotional parts rightly too.Now to The Perfect Score's not perfect score; and I mean one factor : the script. Well, to sum it all up, while the heist and the comedy parts were OK, the drama part wasn't. The characters weren't built seriously. Take for instance the stoner; why he's living this way ? All what we know about him is that his mother is dead, and that's not enough at all. Moreover, the scene of him with the basketball star's mom; what was that about ? After one tongue-lashing, he quits drugs and refuses cheating !! Which leads us to the ending. Not choosing using the answers which they hardly got isn't the problem, not playing it logically is. I mean, com'on, suddenly we discover that ALL the leads are geniuses ! And the way they realized that "they don't need cheating to get what they want" wasn't any well written. At that part, I felt the writer wanted to persuade us verbally not actually. And finally, what was the story of that so serious, yet half naked, woman in the ETS building ?! According to its premise, this is light comedy. And according to its fault, it is so light ! That's why it's entertaining, but not that memorably effective. However, among the heist movies of 2004, like Ocean's Twelve, Times Lucky, The Big Bounce, and The Ladykillers, it has its high rank, being way better than most of them, let alone that Erika Christensen is sexy !

It would have been easier if those kids had simply studied like they were supposed to instead of blaming tests. The ton of work they put into risking their lives and futures to break into a building to take a test that simply to cheat is a horrible premise. This show was not making any rebellious statement or moral story of any kind shape or form. Since there was nothing else on TV to watch I happen to come across this stupid movie and thing that its got to be one of the worst premises ever. These kids could have could have done the make up exam and still had enough time to study aka brush up. Also if they were going to do that terrible on the tests anyway this didn't deserve to pass. It's not fair to those who spent their young lives actually studying. I hate the whole "lets blame standardized tests" premise anyway. It's not at all like people think it is. This is just a movie for those who are jealous of those who mutually study and work for a living. Not some dumb jock that happens to be a idiot savant at math and would have passed the test anyway, or some blond 4.0 student that has a mental impairment. She needs therapy not a stolen test. If she's that screwed in the head she's probably not going to make it in college or the career world anyway. And do we really need another Asian Stereotype in a movie? Just got to love hollywoods bigoted and racist stereotyping. I didn't do well on my SAT test but over the years I was given a ton of chance to make up for it. I also hate the fact that movies like this make community colleges or state universities look like scumbag schools when they are not. State colleges and community colleges have cranked out some very successful pillars of our society. Not to mention there are a ton of famous, rich, smart, intelligent, famous inventors that never even went to college. But anyway, like I said, it would have been easier and far less work if the kids simply studied like they should have or at least crammed before the make up. This movie is a big FAIL!

Six high school students from different backgrounds are frightened because the upcoming SAT exam. None of them was great in the first exam as they should be, and the perspective of their futures being destroyed, makes them conspire together to steal the answers. In this way, they can get perfect scores and have the success they need.''The Perfect Score'' is a teen comedy and the only actress I recognize in this movie, is Scarlett Johansson. The movie is ordinary and weak and no one has a great acting in it, Scarlett Johansson included. The characters are boring and the romance in it is cheesy as well. The thing I liked the most was the end of it, because it came with some surprises. If the movie ended how I expected it to end, for sure I would give a lower rate. The good thing about this movie, is to show how S.A.T is terrible and how it scares the students.Many important things, like the students grades in school,are not taken care of.I don't think this is the worst movie of all, but sure is far from being the best teen movie I already watched.For my own surprise, the character I liked the most was Roy, the Chinese drug addicted and super genius student.