Bad Teacher (2011) - I Have Such a Terrible Teacher!

Rating: 6/10 (30 October 2011)

"Bad Teacher" is one of those movies where the audience just agrees with the movie that their own teacher is a mean, ruthless, antagonizing, and a messed-up (fill in the blanks). Cameron Diaz stars in a new comedy, where she plays an inappropriate teacher who starts crushing for Justin Timberlake as the new substitute teacher, and starts raising money for useless boob jobs. Then she ends up having Jason Segel's gym teacher trying to crush on her, tries being friends with John Michael Higgins as a dolphin-obsessed principal, and tries to avoid the antagonizing advantages of Lucy Punch's across-the-hall teacher. Now, "Bad Teacher" may have its moments, but it's quite disappointing. First of all, one of the only things I liked about this movie was Cameron Diaz's surprising performance. She is really charismatic, and her stupidity and sexy looks makes her funny. Also, I'm a total fan of Jason Segel, and I really loved him in this movie. Although there were some funny moments, "Bad Teacher" has its negative moments. "Bad Teacher" is not really a perfect comedy, because it's not well-written, well-raunchy, and not even well-comedic like "Bridesmaids" or "Horrible Bosses". Also, Justin Timberlake makes an average performance that any other actor can do, and John Michael Higgins was okay. But Lucy Punch created the most weirdest and stupid performance ever on screen, and I hated her so much in this movie. She is such an annoying role, and I hope she gets a Razzie award nomination. "Bad Teacher" may have it's funny moments, and maybe Cameron and Jason delivered hilarious performances, it's not as good as all the other better comedies of the year. "Bad Teacher", in my review, "sometimes hilarious, but nothing special".