Bad Teacher
2011 Directed by Jake Kasdan
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She doesn't give an "F."
Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) is a lying, 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 rich fiance, she sets her sights on a rich, handsome substitute (Justin Timberlake) while shrugging off the advances of the school gym teacher (Jason Segel).
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Bad teacher. No not really, just a very poor film, with a message so deeply buried under the most enormous pile of detritus that it was not worth looking for. It is really sad that this is number 463 in a list of just over 500 films that took over US$200,000,000 at the box office.
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A comedy that is not just hit and miss, the misses are often very lazy attempts at humour and pin droppingly awful. Cameron Diaz is not the best suited to the role but then again it is a pretty shoddily written character, her story arc basically being 'I am a bit of a shallow dick to I am not so shallow but still a dick'. What redeems it somewhat is some of the supporting cast/characters making for much more entertaining viewing, with the likes of Lucy Punch, Phyllis Smith and John Michael Higgins coming to the fore.
Bad Teacher is not terrible, just a bit of a let down, and would of benefited from a more even tone and specific direction with its humour.
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Half a star for Justin Timberlake's glasses.
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I hate Cameron Diaz and I think Justin Timberlake should stop acting and go back to singing, so I can only point to being trapped on a plane as a reason for watching this movie.
It was awful. I didn't finish it. I hated everything about it.
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I've noticed quite a lot of vitriol pointed at this movie for whatever reason, most of it squarely aimed at Diaz, whom people seem to dislike to a bafflingly high degree. However, characters who hate their job and constantly find ways to get out of work or do the bare minimum will always be a pretty solid source of comedy for me. Add into the mix a pretty great sarcastic performance by Jason Segel and a pretty great lame-guy performance by Justin Timberlake and laughs were going to be elicited, no matter what. In a way, this movie reminded me a lot of season 1 of Eastbound & Down, with Diaz in the Kenny Powers role, Timberlake in the Terrence Cutler…
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I hate myself for watching this. It's depressed me.
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Well this wasn't even slightly good.
With Cameron Diaz in the lead role it's hard to take the film seriously. Granted, you're not supposed to, but with a less well-known actress in the lead I might have actually cared about her character. The same goes for Justin Timberlake. Instead of wanting to laugh at these actors doing something a little outside of their stereotypical roles, it just felt like a bit of a joke; a bad joke that wasn't even slightly funny.
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Bad teacher. No not really, just a very poor film, with a message so deeply buried under the most enormous pile of detritus that it was not worth looking for. It is really sad that this is number 463 in a list of just over 500 films that took over US$200,000,000 at the box office.
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What can I say? I really enjoyed it, despite its poor reputation. Oh, sure, in the Bad stakes it's no Santa, but I got a lot of laughs out of the excellent cast and amusing dialogue.
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Bad teacher, bad movie. This is what happens when I lose control of my quickflix queue. Yuk.
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Thought this was funnier last time I watched it. Had some laugh out loud bits, Timberlake dry humping Diaz, but felt a bit flat? Maybe just not in the mood
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Despite sounding awful it wasn't all that bad. The plot is at least more interesting than most romantic comedies.
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just a mess
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oops i enjoyed this
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Perhaps one of the worst films ever made.....
I would give it 0/5 if I could.....