It truly is a statement of our times~

Rating: 6/10 (8 July 2011)

Film was directed and produced adequately enough. Script isn't absolutely horrible, I know I wouldn't want to have to try to get humor out of the embarrassing abomination our education system has become but, just the same, it's surprising to me to read so many negative reviews of this movie by such (sincerely) smart, observant, and astute viewers, film fans, and film-goers.
The obvious point is to enjoy watching Ms. Diaz; I freely admit I would be riveted watching a black-and-white film of her reading the phone book. She just has that appeal to some of us. One cannot deny her sexual magnetism and charisma in the most generic of gestures and exclamations. She's just a joy to watch. Additionally, I'm sure all of us have a person like her character within our social circle, it's just that they don't usually say the things she says or do the things she says quite so obviously (or perhaps simply within our purview).
So, either you get it or you don't: she's pretty, she's sexy, so put her up on the screen to . . . well, do something, anything--who cares? Maybe her private life does tend to pull the wrong way on most people's moral compasses; what the heck do I care? It's not like she's gonna call me or anything.