The Phoenix Network:
 
 
About  |  Advertise
 
Features  |  Reviews
MetalIssue_1000x50

Review: Bad Teacher

All talk and no action
By BRETT MICHEL  |  June 29, 2011
1.5 1.5 Stars

Both Bad Santa and the Bad Lieutenants (Keitel and Cage) were really bad, but they were entertaining. Cameron Diaz's Bad Teacher, Elizabeth, is neither. Sure, she swears an awful lot in front of her learning-starved (and blandly cast) middle-school students, and she talks endlessly about getting fake tits, but that's just it — she's all talk and no action (the film's big sex scene finds her fully clothed and dry-humping). And will anyone sitting through this slog actually believe the lazy money-grubber will augment her perfectly perky B-cups to attract an overly agreeable imbecile like wealthy new teacher Scott (Justin Timberlake, Diaz's real-life ex)? That scenario's about as likely as Elizabeth ending up with doughy gym teacher Russell (Jason Segel) and discovering she's a good teacher after all, but this doesn't deter director Jake Kasdan from arriving at this bad ending.

Related: Reivew: Resident Evil: Afterlife, Review: Super 8, Review: The First Beautiful Thing, More more >
  Topics: Reviews , Movies, Movie Reviews, Cameron Diaz,  More more >
| More
Add Comment
HTML Prohibited

 Friends' Activity   Popular   Most Viewed 
[ 08/31 ]   "Cool Ranch 'Endless Summah' Party"  @ Middlesex Lounge
[ 08/31 ]   "FreePort [No. 003]: Susan Philipsz"  @ Peabody Essex Museum
ARTICLES BY BRETT MICHEL
Share this entry with Delicious
  •   REVIEW: ATTACK THE BLOCK  |  August 23, 2011
    As a group of teenage thugs approach their intended victim (only their eyes are visible as they glare at the trainee nurse who's walking the cold south London streets alone on the way home from her shift), you'll be forgiven if you recall the recent wave of rioting in the UK.
  •   MIRANDA JULY TAKES A COOKIE BREAK  |  July 27, 2011
    July had just nabbed a chocolate-chip cookie from a table set up for a conference of visiting doctors. She was surprised — not only by the fact that one of the physicians had recognized her — but that the woman had also already seen July's latest, which is set to open in the Boston area next Friday.
  •   REVIEW: THE SMURFS  |  July 26, 2011
    It may be a 3D movie set in a world populated by computer-animated blue-skinned natives, but this isn't Avatar .
  •   REVIEW: WINNIE THE POOH  |  July 19, 2011
    If you don't mind paying full price for something so brief, you'll be delighted to find a musically driven film the whole family can enjoy.
  •   REVIEW: HORRIBLE BOSSES  |  July 12, 2011
    After two comedies, it's clear Seth Gordon is good at making . . . documentaries.

 See all articles by: BRETT MICHEL

MOST POPULAR
RSS Feed of for the most popular articles
 Most Viewed   Most Emailed