HIGH SCHOOL HIGH
A film review by David Wilcock
Copyright 1997 David Wilcock
STARRING JON LOVITZ COLUMBIA RELEASE
So, here's another spoof from the creator of The Naked Gun films (David Zucker, although he didn't direct this) Dangerous Minds should be one of the most easiest films to spoof, yet this film still manages to mess up. The film just hasn't got enough laughs in it. I suspect this is not because the writers aren't funny, but because they were trying to hard to stick to the plot of the film! Imagine, a spoof with a plot!
And that's the films downfall. You can't really make quick fire gags around a plot, and near the end of the movie, the film runs out of jokes altoghether. So, this film is majorly dissapointing. Although Lovitz and Louise Fletcher (who played the nurse in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest) are funny, they can't save the film. This film isn't as bad as the dire Spy Hard, but it could have been much funnier. < Overall Rating=** out of ***** =============================== DAVID WILCOCK EMAIL:david.wilcock@btinternet.com WILCOCK MOVIE PAGE: http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/9061
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