Bad Teacher

Bad Teacher

Rating 2 out of 10

I was very leery about going to see this movie.  Had not seen any good reviews, but movies like this don't usually get great reviews.  The trailers looked kinda funny.  After seeing the movie I was very surprised to see that on www.rottentomatoes.com out of 141 reviews 79 were rotten.  What surprised me was that 62 reviewers gave this piece of crap a thumbs up.  This movie is horrible from start to finish.  I put the bar low when I went in the theater and it fell far below.

Cameron Diaz plays an airhead school teacher that has skated by in life on her good looks and likes it that way.  She chooses being a teacher because she thinks it's easy.  Never says how she made it through college to get a degree.  Her goal in life is to find a rich husband that can give her the finer things in life.  Loving or even liking the guy means nothing.  Money is all that counts.

When she is dumped by her rich boyfriend for being a gold digger she sets her sights on a sub teacher when it becomes clear he has family money (why is he teaching?).  She feels she stands a better chance landing a money man if she has bigger boobs but does not have the ten grand it costs to get them.  She then steals money from the kids car wash, bribes parents and any other way legal or not to get the bigger rack.

Justin Timberlake plays the sub teacher.  He should fire his agent and anyone else that got him involved in the project.  Jason Segel plays the dopy gym teacher who has the hots for teacher yet she wants nothing to do with a lowly gym teacher.  Even one that invites her to smoke pot with her in the gym during school hours.

The acting is bad and over the top as a campy SNL skit.  I don't mind a raunch movie every now and then.  Even the use of the F-word was not overused like I thought it would be.  This movie just wasn't funny.  I have to thank my buddy Ted for dragging me to see this!  : >