If you're not in the right frame of mind for these types of comedies, they can get pretty exhausting after about five minutes. That might be part of the reason this movie never grew on me over the years. A professor is demoted from an esteemed college to an urban high school where he gets even less respect, and has to turn around and inspire the young minds. Jon Lovitz heads this spoof on Blackboard Jungle, Dangerous Minds, Stand and Deliver, Lean on Me and other "inner city" movies featuring disillusioned youth. I've always felt that Lovitz was an underrated actor and Tia Carrere has always been severely underutilized, so this has its charms, but it's not without its faults. Sadly, the satire factor is lacking, and it becomes the very thing it's trying to skewer.
2 nails on a chalkboard out of 5
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