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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Bad Teacher (1:31) 2011
Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz) and I have one thing in common - we both teach at a Middle School. And that's where the similarities end. Elizabeth spends a year teaching and planning her wedding to her very rich finance. On the last day of school, she returns home to have her finance tell her the wedding is off. She returns to school with one goal - raise $10,000 for a good cause - her breast enlargement surgery. She believes that this enhancement will attraction the new substitute teacher, an heir to a watch fortune. Elizabeth embarks on making extra money by helping with the car wash and trying to earn the prize money for most improved school scores. Oh, Elizabeth drinks, smokes pot, skims money and cheats. That is the other big difference between Elizabeth and me! It was a fun film after a tough ending school year. I didn't like seeing the teachers smoke pot especially on school grounds. The crude language wasn't my cup of tea either. I did recognize some characteristics in her colleagues and in some of the students but I took this for what it is worth - a mindless summer romp. And yes, in my fantasy world, I would like to be Cameron Diaz in the car wash scene.
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watch free movies online But despite the film’s raging pessimism, screenwriters Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg make it an obligation to end Bad Teacher on a high-note . . . even if it means leaving out a few important plot points. That’s to say, the third act is a mess. What made Halsey so cynical in the first place? Has she always wanted to be a teacher? Has she always been dependent? What inspired her sudden interest in genuine love rather than cold, hard cash? None of these questions are answered, and it’s a shame because the first 60 minutes-or-so, which have the charmingly brazen Diaz socking her pupils with dodge balls and stealing the answer keys for standardized tests, are entertaining. That’s the charm that they should have embraced. Instead we get the same woman skipping across a gymnasium with a smile on her face. Boooooring.
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