Bad Teacher (2011)

Bad Teacher (2011) Movie Reviews
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Cast: Cameron Diaz, Lucy Punch, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake, Phyllis Smith

Director: Jake Kasdan

Rating: R

Running Time: 91 min.

Synopsis: A booze-swilling, pot-smoking, hard-swearing seventh-grade teacher rallies to get out of the classroom for good by wrangling a rich substitute teacher into marriage in this comedy from director Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story). Cynical teacher Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz) hates her job. She can't wait for the day she finds a man who makes enough cash to let her walk away from her life of middle-school misery, and when her fiancé cancels their wedding plans, her frantic search intensifies. Just when it starts to look like Elizabeth will have to muscle her way through another semester of skull-crushing hangovers, however, handsome substitute Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake) shows up at school sporting a fancy wristwatch and the promise of a care-free future. But in order to earn her meal ticket, Elizabeth will have to out-cute perky fellow teacher Amy (Lucy Punch). And it won't be easy, because Scott is crushing on Amy hard. Now, if Elizabeth can just motivate her students to study so that she can win a state contest to earn enough cash for some new breast implants, perhaps she can finally find a means of diverting Scott's gaze. Meanwhile, much to Elizabeth's chagrin, wisecracking, self-effacing gym teacher Russell (Jason Segel) refuses to admit defeat despite being turned down for a date by his gold-digging colleague time and again.

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  • Jun 25, 2011 11:44 pm

    YH said: C

    Bad teacher is bad.

  • Jun 27, 2011 01:50 am

    Cat said: B

    Bad Teacher is a Cameron Diaz vehicle that tries to take Bad Santa to the classroom. Diaz is perfect in the role, and the audience appreciates the nasty one-liners, but the huge change in the Diaz character seems unmotivated.

  • Jul 07, 2011 07:47 pm

    David said: F

    AWFUL

  • Jul 14, 2011 02:57 pm

    A said: A

    Very enjoyable, funny movie!!!

  • Sep 01, 2011 05:08 pm

    Stuart said: F

    A really, really lousy movie. Got to wonder who the target audience was.

  • Sep 20, 2011 08:18 pm

    Don said: A

    The best movie of the year thus far!

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