Totally shallow and vapid

Rating: 4/10 (29 January 2012)

While the movie is far from boring it's basically nothing more then fluff. Very few of the characters are believable in their roles in the movie and most of the actors didn't have that much chemistry together. Hard to root for Cameron Diaz's character when she has no redeemable values whatsoever.
Diaz's character makes no effort to teach the entire movie but suddenly she finds out that the teacher whose students score the highest on a state test gets a big bonus and she out of nowhere learns how to teach.
It seems like the producers of this movie just liked the movie Bad Santa and decided to make the same movie just with a teacher in the place of Santa.
This is most definitely a step in the wrong direction career wise for Cameron Diaz. She should fire her agent for signing onto this project.