Bad Teacher, Bad Idea

Rating: Null/10 (13 August 2011)

Cameron Diaz basically plays the same character in every role she takes on. For me, the only time that role paid dividends was in 'Vanilla Sky', when she played the psycho sex partner to Tom Cruise. With 'Bad Teacher',it's now clear that that role is playing a little thin. Maybe she's just not being offered any good roles, but taking on this one surely won't increase such offers.
The movie only avoided a one star rating because of a few one-liners and a couple of sight gags. Plot, well, there really isn't anything to make the viewer stay to the end of the film. What you have here is basically a series of sight gags, 90% sexual in character, which are loosely strung together. There is no character development and you really don't care what happens to anyone in the end.
The supporting cast doesn't live up to that billing. They seem to be doing their own unrelated stand-up comic routines. Justin Timberlake should fire whoever told him to take a role in this movie. As a career move, it was a disaster.
In short, find something better to do with your time. Bad Teacher is no laughing matter.