very funny, and (2) it makes the crucial error of taking its story seriously and angling for a happy ending." Andrew Hindes wrote in Variety that "the problem with High School High isn’t that it always goes for the cheap laugh, but that it fails at getting it so often. 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. B.O. prospects appear below average: Given the lack of youth-oriented fare in the marketplace, target teen audiences may fill seats early in the semester, but attendance is likely to drop off quickly." Upon its video release in March 1997, Michael Sauter wrote in Entertainment Weekly that "uplifting inner-city high school movies on the order of Dangerous Minds get an overdue but underinspired send-up in this occasionally funny spoof cowritten by David Zucker (The Naked Gun)", adding that "despite a steady stream of such typical Zucker sight gags, this parody’s pace is surprisingly slack. Even the TV tube’s reduced, sitcom-friendly confines aren’t enough to hide the holes of High School High." Soundtrack A soundtrack containing hip hop and R&B music was released on August 19, 1996 via Big Beat Records. The album peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard 200 and at No. 4 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and was also certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over 500,000 copies in the United States. See also List of hood films References External links Yahoo! Movies page 1996 films 1990s parody films 1990s teen comedy films American high school films American parody films American teen comedy films Films about educators Slapstick films TriStar Pictures films Films scored by Ira Newborn Films directed by Hart Bochner Films with screenplays by David Zucker (filmmaker) Films with screenplays by Pat Proft 1996 comedy films 1990s English-language films 1990s American films