Bad Teacher
Look, Cameron Diaz is nice to watch and I am a fan but I do not ever recall her being so totally raunchy as she is in this movie. I don’t think that the Bad Teacher character (Elizabeht Halsey) has a single redeeming quality. She smokes, drinks, takes drugs to excess, uses people and curses at her young students. She has no interest in educating them or in giving her teaching profession a decent chance.
In fact, all Elizabeth cares about is feathering her nest by marrying her rich fiancee. Unfortunately for her their marriage to be is a doomed affair and she winds up getting dumped. She decides that what she really needs to become a “man magnet” is to have her boobs enhanced. The trouble is she can’t afford the hefty price tag required to get “pumped up” (…it’s really expensive per tit….and you have to get two of them) and she can’t find anyone willing to stake her operation.
Always on the hunt for men and their money, Elizabeth goes after a promising substitute teacher by the name of Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake). Her fellow teacher, Amy Squirrell(Lucy Punch) also happens to have designs on Scott. Herein lies much of the humor watching these two conscienceless women go to war. One would not think of war as a source of humor but when it comes to Elizabeth and Amy combating each other it certainly is.
So, in a nutshell, we watch this selfish woman doing everything in her power to obtain the things that she desires at any cost. That is, we watch this until the final portion of the movie when all of a sudden she becomes a totally different person. How different? She becomes likable and is suppose to have the audience rooting for her. Ashamedly I will admit to doing exactly that although I am in no way proud of my behavior!
The movie is rated a hard “R” and if you are not bothered by this then perhaps you will enjoy it as I did. As I mentioned, it is flawed but it is also very funny in its own way.
Rated – “R” -
Fatwayne’s Rating -
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