Director: Jake Kasdan
Year: 2011
Stars: Cameron Diaz, Lucy Punch, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake
It's taken me a while to blog about this movie - partly because I've been busy, partly because it's just not really that memorable. I have wanted to see this for a while, so made an effort to watch it when it came on TV.
Bad Teacher is all about Elizabeth Halsey (Diaz), a teacher who doesn't really want to be one. All she really wants to do is marry somebody rich and spend their money. This makes her an entirely unlikable character, which is problematic because she is very much the main character of the movie. Whilst the story is not necessarily bad, making the central character this awful makes the entire movie unlikeable.
About the only thing I did enjoy in Bad Teacher was Jason Segel's performance. He plays a cynical, but still caring, teacher, it was the only role that felt like it wasn't entirely one-dimensional. Why he would ever have shown any interest in Diaz's character, however, is beyond me.
Rating: 2 out of 5
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