{"id":31349,"date":"2019-06-07T01:56:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T05:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=31349"},"modified":"2019-06-05T13:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:09:37","slug":"mo-money-1992-high-school-high-1996-nineties-comedy-double-feature-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/07\/mo-money-1992-high-school-high-1996-nineties-comedy-double-feature-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo’ Money (1992)\/High School High (1996): Nineties Comedy Double Feature [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s more budgetary double feature Blu-Rays for movie collectors that want to own two somewhat\u2014uh\u2014okay comedies, but don\u2019t want to spend money on them. If you\u2019re a fan of either film, they\u2019re basically only available on this double bill Blu-Ray for now, sans the features. So sadly there\u2019s no audio commentary with Jon Lovitz and Tia Carrere going over the finer nuances of \u201cHigh School High.\u201d In either case, if you\u2019re also a nineties completist, it\u2019s definitely a double bill worth owning.<\/p>\n

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Back in the nineties Damon Wayans was a very popular comedian who\u2019d managed to gain a lot of momentum on the controversial sketch show \u201cIn Living Color.\u201d Wayans took the whole goofy \u201cMo Money\u201d sketch and transformed it in to a crime comedy that works mainly because of the fairly breezy pacing and Wayans\u2019 ability to encapsulate the nineties with his entire wardrobe. Wayans stars with youngest brother Marlon as a con man who wants to live a straight life working for his money.<\/p>\n

When he meets the beautiful Amber, he takes a mailroom job at a credit card company, and as he leans back in to crime again, his corrupt boss brings him in to the fold to help him commit fraud with a credit card ring. Damon and Marlon are good enough in this comedy that is a bit heavy in the stark violence on occasion, but works as a vehicle for Damon who, I assume, was anxious to break in to film.<\/p>\n

If there was any sub-genre ripe for parody in the nineties, it was the sub-genre where a teacher inspires a group of ragtag hood kids to do well in school turning them in to A+ students. \u201cHigh School High\u201d takes advantage of this with Jon Lovitz as Richard Clark, a teacher for an upscale prep school who takes a job at Marion Barry High School. Said school is your typical run down, poorly staffed, crime ridden high school, but Richard is intent on saving some students, and falling for a fellow faculty member (Tia Carrere). \u201cHigh School High\u201d is an okay (not even David Zucker can elevate it above just okay) spoof of an already silly sub-genre.<\/p>\n

While it doesn\u2019t always think outside the box touching on the more moronic aspects of the sub-genre, it might just inspire a few chuckles here and there. The best thing \u201cHigh School High\u201d is remembered for is the shockingly great soundtrack that came with it. Again, the Disc comes with no extras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s more budgetary double feature Blu-Rays for movie collectors that want to own two somewhat\u2014uh\u2014okay comedies, but don\u2019t want to spend money on them. If you\u2019re a fan of either film, they\u2019re basically only available on this double bill Blu-Ray for now, sans the features. So sadly there\u2019s no audio commentary with Jon Lovitz and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[71,219,240,898,973],"class_list":["post-31349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-crime","tag-satire","tag-spoof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31351,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31349\/revisions\/31351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}