Released in 1996, High School High is a comedy staring Jon Lovitz and I had honestly never even heard of this movie until I stumbled upon it today.
The movie is about an idealistic teacher named Richard Clark (played by Jon Lovitz) who has taken a job at a run down, crime filled, inner city high school, and the film pretty much centers around the obvious jokes that you'd expect with this premise: All the students are over exaggerated stereotypes, the teachers all drink, Jon Lovitz tries to connect with his students by talking their lingo and he just sounds like a nerd... You get the idea.
On his first day, Richard meets Tia Carrere's character Victoria who will be this films love interest, the mean principle Doyle who he'll be working for, and Griff the former gang member/college hopeful/student he needs to get through to. As you can probably guess, this a parody of those inspirational teacher dramas like Stand and Deliver. Well, Richard soon turns the school around and earns the respect of the students, as well as, foiling the plans of a local gang that is trying to recruit Griff. In the end, everything works out and 6 of the students actually graduate high school.
So, is it any good?
Well, the film currently sits at a whopping 13% on 'Rotten Tomatoes' and it's hard to argue that it should be rated too much higher. In general, I like Jon Lovitz and I think he's funny as a side character but, movies like this one prove why he's not the star of more comedies.
I got a few laughs out of it and it's not unwatchable by any stretch but, overall, the writing feels kind of lazy and there just aren't enough jokes that work to make this a really enjoyable movie.
I give it a 1.5 out of 5.
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