Synopsis
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.
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Cast
- Jon LovitzRichard Clark
- Tia CarrereVictoria Chapell
- Louise FletcherSchuldirektorin Evelyn Doyle
- Mekhi PhiferGriff McReynolds
- Natasha Gregson WagnerJulie Rubels
- John NevilleThaddeus Clark
- Malinda WilliamsNatalie Thompson
- Guillermo DíazPaco Rodriguez
- Marco RodríguezMr. DeMarco
- Eric Allan KramerHulk
Recommendations
- 67
Entertainment Weekly
The Naked Gun writing team and actor-turned-director Hart Bochner do unto the stereotype of inner-city high schools what needs to be done to stereotyped inner-city high schools -- parody them silly -- in this high-flying, low-comedy production. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Stupid yet cogent, High School High is a rapid-fire gag machine that's dopey enough to get belly laughs and smart enough to earn a C-plus as engaging entertainment. - 50
Variety
Like a student who studies hard but just doesn't have the smarts, this joyless send-up of the "Dangerous Minds," "Stand and Deliver," idealistic-teacher-in-a-ghetto-school genre plods along earnestly with barely passing grades. - 40
The New York Times
There's not much sense to the plot. But the film makers' blunderbuss approach to humor, with visual and verbal jokes coming in profusion and scattering high and low, guarantees that just about every funnybone is bound to be hit, some more than once. - 38
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie makes two mistakes: (1) It isn't very funny, and (2) it makes the crucial error of taking its story seriously and angling for a happy ending. - 30
Austin Chronicle
Lovitz is occasionally amusing, especially in his creative attempts to get through to his pupils, although his style of slow-take humor is a grave mismatch for this kind of frenzied comedy. - 30
Los Angeles Times
The laugh lines are mostly crude and the prevalent slapstick is weak and uneventful. - 25
ReelViews
Isn't just bad, it's very bad.
