Lessons is life

Rating: 4/10 (7 February 2014)

Bad Teacher is a wannabe amoral tale about Cameron Diaz playing a selfish character.
The Bad Teacher of the film who puts less than minimum effort, does not care about her students and is looking to marry a rich guy.
However when she gets dumped she returns to teaching to earn enough money to enlarge her boobs and get another rich guy to marry.
Of course despite Diaz doing her best we cannot care about such a character and end up sorry for her pupils who have to watch endless films on television during lessons.
Justin Timberlake turns up as a shallow nerd who is descended from a rich family but his character is just pointless.
Lucy Punch is the nemesis and provides spirited resistance to the bad teacher and be the foil but you know she will get beaten to the punch by the end of the film.
Jason Segel has a small role as a laconic gym teacher. The schoolchildren are the usual mix of geeks and cool kids but the film is a one note idea.
A few laughs, some sexy scenes such as Diaz washing cars save this from being a bad film. At least there is redemption with Diaz finding out she is better at counselling than teaching.