
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe 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. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairHigh School High has one or two genuine laughs with several chuckle-worthy moments peppered throughout, but this is pretty much a lackluster effort. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackStupid 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. |
| VarietyAndrew HindesLike 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. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaDoes drive home a few laughs, but not nearly as many as the Zucker name would lead you to believe. |
| The New York TimesLawrence Van GelderThere'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. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe 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. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThe laugh lines are mostly crude and the prevalent slapstick is weak and uneventful. |
| USA TodaySusan WloszczynaLouise Fletcher is a walking sight gag as the evil principal, but just about every other gag falls flat and lies there, wheezing. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenLovitz 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. |