Laugh A Minute

Rating: 10/10 (28 July 2012)

This film had me laughing out loud, and I think it deserves 10/10 stars.(Perhaps the BEST comedy since "The Hangover"). Something else: I really detest Cameron Diaz (Except "There's Something About Mary"), because generally speaking, she is not hot, nor can she act (As an example: See "The Sweetest Thing" (Or better yet, DON'T)). But this film is different. Spoilers ahead: The scene at the car wash, with Elizabeth Halsey (Diaz) in a wet tee shirt and shorts is certainly worth watching just for itself, and seeing what she does to the nasty Amy Squirrel (Perhaps the best name for a miserable character since Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest."), makes the film worth watching. There is nothing that can be done to Miss Squirrel that she does not deserve: Such as when Elizabeth gives her a spiked apple, and she gets a nasty rash, and when Squirrel has the Locksmith break into her Elizabeth's desk (After dragging it into her office and saying it was hers) and finds evidence that she cheated on a test and Squirrel snitches on her, she is able to turn it around and make people think Squirrel is is a drunk and a sleaze bag, and get her kicked out of the school, and put into a real dangerous school. The funny thing about Squirrel, is how the people closest to her (Her students and Principal Snur (John Michael Higgens)are the only ones to know what a nasty B***H she really is). Squirrel reminds me of a low class version of Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver) from "Working Girl." whose character was explained perfectly by Tess McGill (Melanie Griffin): "Look, you, maybe you've got everyone around here fooled with this saint act you have going, but do not ever speak to me again like we don't know what really happened, you got me?" The only difference was in "Working Girl" only Tess knew, here others knew. Finally, although Elizabeth was a shallow, gold digging, drunk, you certainly like her a lot better than phonies like Parker or Squirrel, because she has a chance of redemption because she does not consider herself better than others, and nor does she pretend she is. Very easy grade of 10/10 Stars.