Bad Teacher (Unrated Edition)
Bad Teacher (Unrated Edition)
Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) is a foulmouthed, ruthless, and inappropriate teacher. She drinks, gets high, and can’t wait to marry a meal ticket to get out of her bogus day job. When she’s dumped by her fiancé, she sets her sights on a rich, handsome substitute (Justin Timberlake) while shrugging off the advances of the school gym teacher (Jason Segel). The consequences of her wild and outrageous schemes give her students, coworkers, and even herself an education like no other! As any kid who’s ever forcibly shot milk through their nasal passages can testify, the key to a great gross joke isn’t so much the content as it is the delivery. The proudly crass Bad Teacher certainly has great big gobs of greasy, grimy potential, chief amo
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A pleasant surprise.,
A reluctant teacher loses her wealthy fiancé’ and thus has to return to the job she hates. Desiring breast implants, she pursues the bonus awarded to the teacher whose class has the highest test scores. Along the way she is pursed by a gym teacher, tries to connect with a rich substitute, and finds a rival in a fellow teacher, the funniest and most well-developed character in the film. This is a movie that I found funny and refreshing, in that it is not laced with vulgarities and profanity throughout. This is a movie that provides laughs while not seeking the lowest common denominator. A pleasant surprise.
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|Loved it!,
I absolutely loved this movie! I did not have high expectations going in as the last couple of comedies I’ve seen were full of bathroom and vulgar humor combined with hysterical outbursts which seems to be the trend in comedies these days. But I found “Bad Teacher” to be quite refreshing in that respect. I’m surprised at how many people find this movie to be degrading to women and teachers – as a woman and a former teacher myself I really enjoyed it and did not find it offensive one bit. I would highly recommend this movie!
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|Nobody To Like,
BAD TEACHER is a mixed bag. [Possible SPOILERS AHEAD]
It features a talented cast, particularly the always-deft Cameron Diaz, that certainly know how to play comedy, and it contains several laugh-out-loud moments, but the film is, ultimately, defeated by its very premise.
There is not one likable character in the entire film.
Diaz plays Elizabeth Halsey, a ruthless, wildly inappropriate middle school teacher who doesn’t give a damn about her students or colleagues, and “teaches” by showing her class movies while she sleeps off the previous night’s drunk.
Why wasn’t this woman was fired months ago?
After her wealthy fiancé and his mother dump her, Elizabeth is out to snag another rich husband and she sets her sights on a new substitute teacher (Justin Timberlake) who comes from money. Unfortunately for her, Justin is more attracted to Elizabeth’s chief rival (Lucy Punch), a triangle that leads to a “war” between the two women…neither of which we, as an audience, are rooting for.
Certainly there are moments in this picture that one cannot help but laugh at Elizabeth’s outrageous remarks, but these awkward laughs are akin to the somewhat incredulous guffaws we give Larry David and his inappropriate actions on CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM.
Elizabeth may “soften” late in the picture, but she certainly doesn’t change and nothing in the screenplay by Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg really justifies her “winning” at the film’s end.
Phyllis Smith, John Michael Higgins and Jason Segel co-star in the movie, directed by Jake Kasdan.
Extras on the DVD, which contains both the theatrical and unrated versions of the movie, include deleted scenes, outtakes and two “Behind the Scenes” featurettes.
From Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
© Michael B. Druxman
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