The Perfect Score plays like a sort of Ocean’s 11 for disaffected youth. Except that neither the kids nor the movie is cool and neither worth watching.

The story involves an attempt by six high school students to break into ETS and steal the answers to the SAT’s. All throughout they’re helping each other resolve their little issues. Some of them are postitive, many others are absurdly ridiculous. A top student learns to rebel against her parents, for no good reason, and a basketball player realizes that he needs to stand up to his mother - who wants him to go to college - and go directly into the NBA instead.

The humor, which is so stupid it actually draws laughs of disbelief, is clearly geared towards a young teen audience. In fact, everything about the movie is. Nothing the kids do is believable or understandable in any way. The script itself is the joke all the way through.

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