High School High Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.0
Video		3.0
Audio		2.5
Extras		0.0
Overall		2.5

High School High Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Martin Liebman June 4, 2019

'High School High' is currently only available in a two-film bundle with 'Mo' Money.'

Richard Clark (Jon Lovitz) works at a prestigious Academy that caters to privileged white students. He’s greatly disliked by the student body, and it’s widely known that he holds the job only because his father (John Neville) is the school’s headmaster. He’s eager to get away, so eager, in fact, that he takes a teaching job at Marion Barry High School, a run-down inner city school housing a disinterested, rude, and in some cases dangerous minority student body. But he’s not about to throw in the towel, not when he finds potential in one of his students (Mekhi Phifer) and falls for a fellow faculty member (Tia Carrere).

High School High Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

High School High's 1080p Blu-ray presentation fares much better than its on-disc companion Mo' Money, which is not a particularly high bar to leap. This image is imperfect but watchable. There's a processed look to the image. Grain is practically frozen in place and sometimes looks like a fine mesh overlay. Some compression artifacts appear, but severity is nowhere near approaching the level seen in Mo' Money. Details are firm and quite pleasing. There's a good, basic organic quality to facial features, clothing, and dilapidated details around the school. Colors are stable, not impressive or extraordinarily brilliant but finding and reproducing a good foundational quality that serves the movie well enough. Skin tones are healthy enough and black levels hold serve. On the whole, it's not bad, even if there's plenty of room for even basic improvement and refinement.

High School High Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

High School High's Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack obviously lacks the finesse of a lossless option and the engagement of a multichannel presentation, but it holds up well enough for clarity and space. While the absence of surrounds means that the listener will never feel completely engaged in the more chaotic locations -- school hallways and classrooms, the school parking lot, a strip club -- the track does a commendable job of engaging the front left and right channels with a fair feel for width that at least partially recreates the various locales. Din is adequately detailed. Music finds a good feel for length along the front as well, and musical clarity is passable. Dialogue is clear and well prioritized. It images quite nicely to the front-center stage location.

High School High Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

This Blu-ray release of High School High contains no supplemental content.

High School High Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

High School High is a passable parody of movies like Lean on Me (and this film even names its main character after that film's Joe Clark, played by Morgan Freeman). It's light fun and Mill Creek's Blu-ray is a decent compliment. The picture quality is by no means great but by no means a mess. Ditto the audio presentation. No extras are included. Worth a watch.