I really can't tell you how it happens. Maybe I have just seen too many movies and I am out of good ones. That is doubtful, but maybe. Maybe I give different types of movies a chance when I should know better and just move along. Whatever it is, I end up watching more terrible movies than good ones.
Last night was a perfect example. For whatever reason, I had The Perfect Score in my Netflix queue. My fiancée will claim up and down that it is because Scarlett Johannson is in it, but honestly, Scarlett is fourth billed and not really all that much to look at in this one.
Let's get back on track. I am not sure what I was expecting from this movie. It is a high school movie about stealing the SAT test answers. It didn't have the kind of cast that would have me thinking it was a real classic or anything.
Chris Evans is one of the main characters and while his name doesn't sound familiar, you might remember him from Not Another Teen Movie, or as the Human Torch in the abysmal Fantastic 4 movie. He stinks as an actor and took the role of leading this pack of unlikely teammates to scoring the answers to the test.
This movie makes his role in Not Another Teen Movie even funnier. In that movie, he mocked all kinds of teen dramas like Varsity Blues, American Pie, and The Breakfast Club, and then in The Perfect Score they model their entire story line after some combination of the above movies. They have different kids from different social circles working together like The Breakfast Club. They have the athlete complex (played by Darius Miles) where we don't know what it is like to be covered in the newspaper, as glorious as it may seem. The prissy smart girl, the stoner, the average dude with a heart of gold, and the slacker chick who is the way she is because her parents suck.
Everyone's favorite Swimfan, Erika Christensen, gets to play the prissy smart girl. On first glance you might think she is hot, but for whatever reason, she isn't. She is like a combination of Julia Stiles and Kate Hudson, except not in a good way, if you can imagine. Her acting is also not very good. She gives a chill-inducing performance and caused me to be embarrassed for her in multiple scenes.
Article comments
1 - Matt Largo
Nice save with the Scarlett Johansson pic. A day with out Scarlett Johansson is like a day without... Scarlett Johansson. I agree with your review 100%.
2 - Mary Smith
i enjoyed this film and i did know who chris evans was and is, Bryan Greenberg is so hot! n an amazing actor, Chris Evans is a good actor as well, oh well
3 - Evan Collins
I Like Ur Team There The Fantastic 4 U Are The Best.