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A hilarious movie in which Jon Lovits has to teach in a school of troubled teens and ends up getting caught in something bigger than just learning. He gets caught up in fights, emotions and love (or something thats better)! Hilarious!

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Posted aug 29, 2007 12:59 am pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  67
  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.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  50
  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.

  by Peter Stack | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  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.

  by Andrew Hindes | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  40
  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.

  by Lawrence Van Gelder | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  38
  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.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  30
  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.

  by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  30
  The laugh lines are mostly crude and the prevalent slapstick is weak and uneventful.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  25
  Isn't just bad, it's very bad.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  25
  Face it. Parody comedies are no longer a laughing matter. [25 October 1996, p.5D]

  by Susan Wloszczyna | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  20
  Louise Fletcher is a walking sight gag as the evil principal, but just about every other gag falls flat and lies there, wheezing.

  by Staff (Not credited) | Read Full Review »