BAD TEACHER is a Bad movie about a teacher who is Bad...... that is it. That's the whole plot and review. Well! That is pretty much what I felt, after I finished watching the movie. That was the only line that flowed best on the page. But well allow me to dwell further. Elizabeth Halsey, played by Cameron Diaz, is a Chicago middle school teacher at the John Adams Middle School who curses her students, consumes alcohol, smokes marijuana, and only shows movies while she sleeps through class.
When the movie starts she is shown quitting her teaching job so as to get married to a wealthy fool and enjoy a carefree life of luxury. But as can be predicted, in a movie there is hardly a ‘happily ever after' in the beginning. The wedding fails to materialize and Elizabeth is back at her old teaching job and teaching methods. At the school, Diaz meets Scott Delacorte, played by Justin Timberlake, a new substitute teacher who is also an heir to a multi-dollar watch empire. In him, she sees her old dream of marrying rich and leading a luxurious life. But this time she is not alone. Competing with her at the school, in teaching and in love, is another teacher Amy Squirrel (Lucy Punch), who is as irritating for the staff as for the students. What follows is an ugly battle of competition between the two teachers to gain the attention of the rich heir, who believes in simulated sex with clothes on as a way to search ones true mate. The ugliness is further fuelled Elizabeth’s erratic thinking when he overlooks her and chooses Ms. Squirrel. And thus her journey to have breasts implants begins so that she can get his attention.
This is a movie about good v/s evil, but surprisingly I didn't find myself picking any side. For if evil is represented by Diaz and her drugging and movie screening ways of teaching; the good side is equally appalling by screechy, irritating Squirrel; whimpering Timberlake; and a lovesick underdog like the Basketball Coach, Russell Gettis (Jason Segel), who makes every possible attempt to make his feelings loud and clear for Elizabeth but all his advances are rejected.
In the recent Teen Choice Movie Awards the movie did won quite a few accolades for itself, such as Choice Movie- Comedy, Choice Movie Actor- Comedy for Timberlake and Choice Movie Actress- Comedy for Diaz. I just agree with the last category for winning, but then to each his own. Nonetheless I would say my usual line that ‘do watch it once’ because no matter how good or bad a film is, every person should make their own opinions.
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