Not good.

Rating: 1/10 (30 April 2012)

This was funny in places but horrendous in the outcome, which I will write about so do not read on if you don't want to know. I have generally enjoyed Cameron Diaz's films, and am amazed that she has not had the good sense to give this a miss.
The plot has been well-explained, so I won't go into that, suffice it to say that the message of this film is that you can be bone idle, without ethics, cheat (mostly children), be foul-mouthed in front of children, steal test papers for financial gain, blackmail to blacken and discredit a fundamentally genuine and good person who is written as a nerd, and end up on top without consequences, happier, and retaining the money fraudulently obtained. I know it's only a film, but I am the sort of person who does not want to get to the end of a so-called comedy just to find that the message is that crime does pay. And what Cameron's character is written to do is criminal, not just larking about and high-jinks. Where would you find a school that would tolerate a foul-mouthed teacher anyway? Not good.