The notion that the worst of these wretches would dutifully turn up in school each day to spread misery among the throng, requires a jolt of suspension of the old disbelief. By scrawling 187, cop shorthand for homicide, on every page of a textbook and elsewhere. Months later, Garfield has relocated to L.A., where he is a substitute teacher sent, for this film's purpose, to another horrid school. We are filled with hope, for him, for her, for us.
Hopes are dashed, dash it.
A pearl among swinish characters in a swinish film.