Bad Teacher

Movie Synopsis

When a junior high teacher who can’t wait to be married and leave teaching behind is dumped by her rich fiance, she will have to go back to school and find herself a new man.

Movie Review Summary

This could have been a good film. Unfortunately it feels too much like a caricature of what a good film would have looked like, with the reliance on the fact that Elizabeth is just a bad teacher. The cast who could have made this work are there, they’re just used in the story development in the right way. For instance, the whole film hinges upon Elizabeth’s desire to find a new sugar daddy and to do that she needs the cash to afford breast enlargement. That alone hardly makes for captivating viewing – sure, she’s shallow enough to think that’ll make a difference, but we don’t feel particularly fussed if she gets that money or not. Then, Scott is just bizarre, not least because somebody who comes across as quite cool (Just Timberlake) is playing some kind of wacky nerd who is fixated on dry humping. You feel that if this had been tightened up, with characters that we care about and some more humorous moments, this could have been a film worth watching once or twice. Unfortunately, in it’s current guise, it isn’t.

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