I even love her as a bad girl

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2011)

Cameron Diaz is my favorite actress and I think the most beautiful one I have ever seen. I have been smitten with her ever since I saw Charlie's Angels. She has played different roles, and always excelled, but I don't think I've ever seen her play a bad girl before. I assume that she had a ball making this film because she really gets to play one here! I remember my favorite high school teacher was Mrs. Martin, whom I'd English with, in one of her classes we read Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. In the film, Diaz has her students read it as well and I thought my dear former teacher would have had a conniption if she could have seen the character she plays. Elizabeth Halsey is the teach from hell. There is literally nothing redeeming about her. She is foul-mouthed, an alcoholic and druggie, selfish, shallow, vain and is concerned more with her bosoms then in inspiring her students (all they do in her class is watch movies). Even when she changes and starts really teaching them, its only for a selfish reason. However, our girl Cameron still makes this a movie worth watching. You don't root for her character but she still makes this film even if she puts the "anti" in anti-heroine. I guess Cameron could play the devil himself and I would still pay the price of admission so maybe I'm biased. I did want to mention another scene stealing performance in the movie. A young English actress with the wonderful name Lucy Punch steals the show as "Mrs. Squirrel". Even with as bad a teacher as this, I still give this movie an "A".