Don't turn her into good guy if you want to make a bad guy win movie

Rating: 6/10 (22 August 2012)

This is an unorthodox school / teenage / teachers movies NOT FOR KIDS. A lot of foul language and we have a teacher who was looking around to marry a rich guy. To cut it short, a gold-digger. The protagonist or may be antagonist for 3 quarters of the show, Elizabeth Halsey, played excellently by an old, ugly, way off her prime, Cameron Diaz. Which is why I understood totally new arrival teacher cheesy rich kid Scott (by Justin Timberlake) totally put her aside for her colleague, Amy Squirrel (Lucy Punch), an enthusiastic, dedicated and certainly has a bigger bust young teacher. It's simple, we have a twisted and evil woman, who was street smart enough to bend the rule and even go to the extreme (even broke the law) to achieve her goal, which ironically turn out to be just collecting a mere 10K for her boobs jobs. A goal which she believe will enhance her chances to dig a goldmine.
Well, the only bad part of the movie, the last 15 minutes or so, where out of nowhere, the filmmaker decide she would have this sudden self-awareness of being shallow and superficial all the while and turn her, ultimately, into a better person. Honestly, I would have gave the movie a 7 or even 8, had they decide to stick her to continue shallow and EVIL (but in an idiotic way). Though that will make it looked like "Talented Ms. Ripley" in second thought. OK, may be let her learn some hard lesson. May be the guy Russell (played by Marshall from HIMYM) who always has crush on her, whom in the movie she choose her over Scott (because she decide to turn FACE, lame!) turned out to be some Paul Allen (or his son) and he passed her out when she realized it a little too late.
Good pacing, solid scripting, some funny moment here and there, OK acting, basically a GOOD WEEKEND movie in modern day term. This movie will not pass the creative dept 20 yrs back IMO. BTW, think Lucy Punch make some good comedic moment, while Cameron despite not in her top form appearance wise give a steady performance.