Fist Fight

Plot synopsis:
It's the last day for students and staff at Roosevelt High School. The seniors are wild and unruly, setting off pranks on their classmates and teachers. English teacher Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) has his parking spot taken by a student on a scooter, and he is too meek and sensitive to do anything about it. History teacher Ron Strickland (Ice Cube) is the most feared teacher in school. He catches two boys taking a prized bat from the school's cage and replaced it with a computer so they can watch porn. Strickland orders them to put the bat back and leave.Some of the teachers are worried because they have evaluations later that day that will determine the fate of their jobs. Campbell in particular is worried because he and his wife Maggie (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) are expecting their second child. Campbell gets pranked in his class when students draw dicks on his board. He gets pulled out by guidance counselor Holly Grossman (Jillian Bell) to let him know that some of the other English teachers have gotten canned, so his job might be safe.In the teachers lounge, Campbell, Holly, and their friend Coach Crawford (Tracy Morgan) discuss the possibility of losing their jobs when one teacher who had worked their for 22 years has just gotten fired. He prepares to take some stuff from the lounge until Strickland shows up and scares him. Strickland tries to use the new coffee machine while complaining that the school's budget goes to stupid stuff. Campbell shows him how to work the coffee machine, but Strickland doesn't like how the coffee comes out.Campbell catches a student jerking off in the bathroom. He tries to get him to stop but is overheard by drama teacher Ms. Monet (Christina Hendricks). She considers Campbell a pervert following this encounter.On his way to class, Campbell is stopped by Strickland because he needs help in the class with AV equipment. Campbell says he can't and has to go to class, but Strickland stops him before he gets hit with some paint that the students set up as a prank. Campbell then decides to go and help out in the class. Strickland is playing a video on a VCR but notices that the picture will play for a few seconds before turning off. Campbell sees that one student, Neil (Austin Zajur), is playing a prank by using a remote app on his phone to turn the TV off. Strickland takes his phone and smashes it against the chalkboard. As they resume the film, a girl passes her phone to Neil to continue the prank. When he does it again, Strickland leaves the classroom and returns with a fire ax. The students run away freaked out as Strickland swings down on Neil's desk and chops it to bits.Strickland and Campbell are called into Principal Tyler's (Dean Norris) office after he hears about the incident. Strickland tells Campbell they need to stick together as teachers. However, Tyler threatens to fire both of them if he doesn't get a clear answer. Campbell caves and blames Strickland, resulting in Strickland getting fired. As payback, Strickland challenges Campbell to a fight later that day after school.Soon, word spreads around the school that the two teachers will fight each other. People spread rumors around as to why Strickland is so feared. They say he's an ex-cop, Special Forces, or just a plain old crazy killer guy. Holly and Crawford are confident that Strickland is going to kill Campbell with one punch. Campbell tries to do what he can to avoid anything from happening.Ms. Monet approaches Strickland after hearing about the fight. Since she thinks Campbell is a pervert, she suggests to Strickland that he use a knife against Campbell.Campbell tries to get Neil to take his word back on the classroom incident. Neil demands a MacBook Pro in return. Desperate, Campbell rushes to the nearest computer store to get it. He runs into Maggie and their daughter Ally (Alexa Nisenson). Maggie is worried that Campbell is there because he lost his job due to not sticking up for himself, which Ally agrees with. When asked about the computer, Campbell passes it off as a surprise for Maggie. Ally reminds him that he is helping her with a talent show performance later, but instead of their rehearsed dance to a "Rent" song, she wants to use a Big Sean song because she is worried about getting bullied by another girl. Campbell agrees and then has to run and get another MacBook.Campbell and Neil tell Tyler that the incident was made up so that Strickland can get his job back. Both Campbell and Strickland are called into the Model UN room for a mediation. Campbell tells Strickland the issue was resolved and he got his job back, but Strickland is even more mad over this since Campbell didn't talk to him about it. The fight is still on.Campbell makes a 911 call to report the impending beatdown. The operators on the other end laugh when Campbell tells them he's a teacher about to get beaten by another teacher.Campbell starts to have a breakdown in his classroom. He falls victim to a prank (literally) when the students put rope around his feet and use a horse doped up on meth to drag him out of the class and get sprayed with paint. Crawford also got sprayed as well. Campbell then decides he's had enough and wants to put an end to the nonsense. He plans to set Strickland up by planting drugs in his classroom and getting him arrested.Campbell gets what is believed to be molly from Neil. On his way to Strickland's class, he runs into Tyler, who tells him his evaluation is now at 2:15, right before Ally's show. Campbell plants the drugs in Strickland's class and waits for the cops outside with Holly and Crawford. The drug-sniffing dog fails to sniff the drugs, and the cops leave. Holly takes out a joint, which Campbell grabs and runs into the class with so he can lure the cops back. Strickland is already in the class and knows what Campbell is up to. Campbell lights the joint and brings back the cops plus campus security guard Mehar (Kumail Nanjiani). Both Strickland and Campbell get arrested.In their cell, Campbell blames Strickland for getting them into this mess. Campbell goes over to a large inmate (Winston James Francis) and tells him that Strickland called him a bitch and that he wants to fight him. He tells the big guy to look out for Strickland nodding as the signal. Campbell goes back over to Strickland to instigate things, but Strickland says the fight is off since he only did it to prove a point in that the school doesn't care about what goes on if students are running around uncontrollably, and that Campbell isn't even man enough to fight. When Campbell tries to clarify that the fight is off, Strickland nods, bringing the big inmate over. Strickland realizes that Campbell set them up, so he takes down the big guy with a sleeper hold and tells Campbell the fight is still on. A cop comes over and says the guys are free to go because the molly was really aspirin.It's now 2:00. Campbell rushes back to the school for his evaluation. Crawford comes out and tells Campbell that he, Holly, and Monet have all gotten fired. Campbell is forced to wait outside when it is nearly 2:30, meaning he will be late for Ally's show. Campbell barges into Tyler's office and sees him listening to a story from the superintendent (Dennis Haysbert). Tyler says that they've fired enough teachers for the day and must discuss upcoming changes to the school. When Campbell asks, Tyler says it's none of his business. Campbell finally puts his foot down and tells off Tyler and the superintendent for making him wait outside and trying to hurt the school even more. He tells them they suck at their jobs and he leaves.Campbell rushes to Ally's school and comes in as she has done a pitiful solo performance of the "Rent" song. He goes over to Maggie and gets the DJ to play the Big Sean song. Campbell talks to Ally and apologizes for being late. They go out on stage to play the song. What Campbell didn't know is that the song Ally wants to play is "I Don't Fuck With You", which Ally directs to her bully, Trisha. Another teacher cuts off the music, but the rest of the kids love Ally's performance. Campbell is proud of her and runs off to the fight.The entire student body is gathered outside for the big fight. Campbell is cheered on for showing up. He faces Strickland and the fight begins. Strickland gets the first punch easily, but Campbell gets back on his feet and gets some good swings in there. He bites Strickland's leg and also gets him with a stapler. Strickland uses more force in the fight, but Campbell doesn't stay down. He runs back into the school, and everyone follows. Campbell tackles Strickland to the ground. He then gets a fire extinguisher to spray Strickland and then whack him over the head with it, taking him down. The students and staff cheer Campbell on as he runs outside, only for Strickland to come back and punch his lights out. Maggie then calls, and Strickland answers the phone. Strickland wakes Campbell up to inform him that Maggie is going into labor. He pulls Campbell up and takes him to the hospital.Campbell goes to Maggie's room to meet with her. He explains everything he's been through that day and that he is finally going to stand up for himself. They then get ready for the baby.Sometime over the summer, the Campbells are having a barbecue with Holly, Crawford, and other friends. Ally is now more popular with the other kids. Tyler shows up and tells Campbell that the fight attracted a lot of attention to the school board, and he must ask both him and Strickland to return to work, because his own job now depends on it. Campbell agrees to return on one condition.The final scene takes place at the first day of the new school year. Campbell got Tyler to rehire Holly, Crawford, and Monet. Strickland returns to the job with more respect for Campbell. The two spot a kid picking on another kid, and they both send the first kid to detention. The two then head off to teach their new classes.

Tags: prank

Review:
This movie does try too hard to be funny and it isn't that funny to be honest, but I had a very fun time watching this movie, going in to it with absolutely no expectations.
sometimes you want to laugh, just enjoy the cinema with friend so don't think I'm comparing it to pulp fiction.this movie is so bizarre and not funny i think anyone with dignity to the movie making and not "we want money no matter what" should fire anyone connected to this one.script- no one in the WORLD talks like that, act like that, and those unrealistic moments so cringy i was embarrassed.
You've got Charlie Day, Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan, a live-action version of Archer's "Pam", and Hank from Breaking Bad; this cast is perfect for being wack!
If you want a "Bad Teacher" type of movie or just a "screw the system" kind of film then this is definitely the one for you..
Looking at a bad example, the main battle from Batman V Superman is poor as the movie did not establish enough of a connection with it's audience and failed to give us a good reason for our heroes to fight.
Aside that every student seems to be a serial killer, both Charlie Day and Ice Cube are both unsympathetic and too unlikable to want to follow for an entire movie.
You know your in for a bad movie when the running time is only and hour and a half, yet it feels like three.What's worse is that until the fight happens in the end, your stuck with these people for a long time.
Yet, there is no denying that Fist Fight is not only a new low for, but also one of the worst studio comedies to ever be released.The biggest problem with the film itself is buying the premise itself.
Charlie Day is trying his best here, but with nothing to work with he constantly resorts to doing the fast-talking and freaking out shtick that he does in every other show and movie he's in to excess.
Ice Cube phones it in playing the exact same role he does in the Jump Street movie (except much less funny) and Jillian Bell plays the stereotypical annoying woman character who constantly says lewd things for a cheap laugh.
Fist Fight marks a new low for major studio comedies in which the rules of reality or thrown out the window only so a plot that makes no sense can exist and decent writing is replaced in favor of improvising whatever swear word or sexual noun can be thought of on the spot.
Ice Cube definitely played a good role in the movie Recommend to any friends Good Comedy for entire family.
Fist Fight is a bad movie, but it knows it's a bad movie and it milks it for all it's worth, has well the actors in the movie.A match up between Ice Cube and Charlie Day pretty much tells you how insane this gonna get.
The excellent Charlie Day, likable Ice Cube, gorgeous Christina Hendricks and amusing Jillian Bell all deserve a much better film than director Richie Keen and his trio of screenwriters are able to muster up here.Day stars as High School English teacher Andy Campbell, a nice guy whose a bit of a pushover, as he contends with a series of personal conflicts on the last day of the school year.
and of course the wrath of Strickland (Ice Cube), a vicious and strict History teacher who he accidentally gets fired and who swears vengeance by challenging Campbell to a fight after school.
And so the race is on for Campbell to try and figure out a way to stop the fight from happening, while he also juggles the other issues that the day will bring him.To get it out of the way, the cast is probably the only good thing about the film.
Day is a lot of fun as our lead and Ice Cube makes for a satisfying enough foil, even though the role is written to be so far over-the-top as to be ridiculous.
the film's just atrociously and aggressively dull.From the opening minutes, you basically learn the film only has two real "jokes" that it uses over and over- that being the repetitive and cliché "senior pranks" and Ice Cube becoming increasingly violent in such a way that it's more disturbing and troubling than funny.
There were only about 1-2 actual funny moments in this movie, the rest of the time I was cringing about how much foul language and the crude humor about drugs and underage sex.I don't consider myself a prude and I like off-center humor.
But, this was just way, way, way off the rails.If you go see it, you don't want kids anywhere near this (it is rated r for a reason -and, there is no nudity in this movie -so, that should tell you alone about the amount of foul language and disgusting humor).Save your money and your precious time..
We actually left early because it was too hard to watch (both the movie and the kid soaking it all in) and we felt like we were wasting our time..
The movie its self had nothing going ice cube being his usual bad ass while charlie day runs scared.
Bless their hearts they tried but Charlie Day and Ice Cube just couldn't make this a good movie.
Give up and turn on something else.Interestingly, a few of the high ratings here do not seem to have seen the actual movie; the 1- and 2-star reviews are right on.And - could we possibly work in more f-bombs?
To top that off, he is fired from work, misses his daughter's talent show and gets challenged to a fist fight.The story details the very bad day of a teacher, which could be funny.
I think "Fist Fight" goes too far when trying to be funny, and ends up being unfunny..
Charlie Day and Ice Cube play two teachers at a super shitty high school.
Cube challenges him to a fist fight after school, and Day, a little wimp, will do everything in his power to avoid it.
"When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight." The plot pretty much sums up the whole idea of the movie.
This movie is Not Funny!It was painful to watch, i would never have my time back!Charlie Day is not funny!
The film takes place on the last day of school before summer vacation, and Charlie Day and Ice Cube play teachers.
I usually enjoy both actors, but because of how overemphasized both of their performances were, there wasn't a whole lot of enjoyment to be had in either of them.In the end, I can count the times I laughed during Fist Fight on one hand.
It's not funny and it is hard to like any of the characters, the premise is of the film is like they have taken from a bad 80s movie but not added any of the charms from this era.
That's how I would describe Fist Fight, but if you just want a quick laugh then this film is worth checking out.
Charlie Day and Ice Cube are both play their usual characters and provide enough laughs throughout the short run time of 80 or so minutes.
I love Charlie Day. He's arguably the best character on It's Always Sunny (besides Dennis), and I really want him to succeed with whatever he does because I feel like he is just a genuinely funny guy.
I agree with another reviewer that said this movie tries a little too hard to be funny, but you end up having a really great time watching it.
the movie "fist fights" its way to be a comedy.
Cube & Charlie Day had great comedy chemistry.Two teachers having a fight after school and it all plays out from the build up to the fight just as we remember any other school fight that ripped through the school grape vine that ends up having a mob of spectators shouting for blood.
Tracy Morgan, Jillian Bell, Christina Hendricks, Dean Norris and the dry Kumail Nanjiani add great support with their roles.I truly enjoyed it so if you fancy a laugh get this watched and if you enjoyed it please give it a decent rating as i feel it deserved much better..
Fist Fight, starring Charlie Day and Ice Cube, is a comedy that insists that excessive profanity and sexual innuendo are parts of an effective brand of comedy.
The premise here is that Charlie Day is a wimpy high school English teacher who has been challenged to a fist fight by Ice Cube, a tough history teacher that was recently fired.
Save it for a rainy day when the dramas are too deep, the horrors are too dark and you don't want to make much sense of anything.Fist Fight has some decent acting, funny characters, funny moments and a little message that if you get pushed around you need to push back.
Five minutes into this movie I questioned how they could make 90 minutes out of Ice Cube wanting to fight Charlie Day. They did this by making a school that really belongs in the 1980's series of High School gang movies.
Strickland (Ice) stands for rules and order yet swears like a sailor at his students and engages in over-the-top intimidation tactics.I wouldn't even have bothered to review this film but for the Talent Show scene: Andy's (Day) pre-teen daughter Ally gives a foul-mouthed performance of something called Big Sean's "I Don't F**k With You".
Forget about all that high-brow analysis and have some fun with this movie.Charlie Day's Andy Campbell is well-meaning, but he's a wuss in every conceivable way.
Charlie Day is enjoyable as always as a ranting, stressed out English teacher who's way, WAY out of his depth with the fist fight and trying for most of the movie to get out of it.
Fist Fight is a mediocre movie with a reasonably well developed plot and a good comedic cast.
Ice Cube delivered quite a boring performance in this film, doing absolutely nothing we have never seen him do before, and failing to make some comedic changes, like he did in the Jump Street movies.
If you are a big fan of any of this movie's comedic talents, then you might want to give it a watch, but Fish Fight is an unexceptional, mundane comedy that never surprised me.
I wasn't that disappointed, mainly because my expectations wasn't that high but I personally think that the director could have done a lot more with this concept.Budget: $25million Worldwide Gross: $41.1millionI recommend this movie to people who are into their comedies, starring Ice Cube, Charlie Day, Tracy Morgan, Jillian Bell, Dean Norris, Christina Hendricks and Dennis Haysbert.
Charlie Day in his typical high energy role, Ice Cube plays the tough guy - which is a good role for him..
Born to play this role, Ice Cube is a hard as nails, too gangsta for the room teacher, who went too overboard in disciplining a student on accountability, and when Charlie Day, who plays a wimp of a man, rats him out in order to save his job, it's on like Donkey Kong, after school.There was a similar movie back in the 80s called Three 0'Clock High that was pretty good, but Fist Fight gives the story a unique twist by having the Teachers battle it out rather than the students, which in Fist fight oddly is a strong symbol of how good awful the American school system is and how that could cause frustration for those good teachers who want to educate.And its real cool that the movie has a message and all.
Like Jillian Bell who plays a nice teacher with a meth habit and sees potential in hooking up with one of the legal senors in her class, and my man Tracy Morgan whose has a love for his student's mothers and tries to teach Day to stand and fight like a man, even thought he's going to get murdered.But Ice Cube, he earn that top billing.
Just an great collaboration of what cube is made of.The movie is filled with a bunch of Laugh out Loud moments designated for a Rated R crowd, and it leads up to an awesome battle royal between Cube and Day that's just hands down entertaining.Fist Fight is a knock out.http://cinemagardens.com.
We were in the mood for a comedy, we certainly needed a good laugh so we headed out to see Fist Fight (2017) featuring Ice Cube and Charlie Day. After watching the trailers we had a good idea of what to expect so we knew we'd at least have a good laugh as those two are just great comedy actors.
But I loved Ice Cube and Charlie Day (both really funny, with great chemistry) and Jillian Bell is one of the funniest ladies in film IMHO.
The movie is about one teacher (Charlie Day) being at odds with another teacher (Ice Cube) to the point where Cube challenges Day to a fist fight to take place at the end of the school day.
"Fist Fight" through and through is a break from logic to bring an amusing and goofy world where Charlie Day and Ice Cube can have a blast being silly in.
It's a movie for awkward, unexpected jokes for dirty minds.If you are not a fan of this kind of movies just don't watch it, just as simple as that.Stop throwing bad words at the movie if you don't like this category of comedy movies.I enjoyed it more than I expected with some uncontrollable laughs..
As funny as I found many of the jokes, there are far too many times when a scene goes on far too long, bringing in boring side characters with supposedly witty interjections that are cringeworthy to watch.That problem is most prevalent in the first and second acts, and although the final act is a significant improvement, the fact remains that a lot of jokes fall flat here, and can make for irritating viewing.That said, the reason that I found Fist Fight such a surprisingly enjoyable movie is simply because I had my brain turned completely off.
Many of them don't hit home, but the ones that do are really funny.What's more is that the lead performances from Charlie Day and Ice Cube go a long way to making this as entertaining a film as possible.
Although they're both a little shrill at times, they both play completely comical version of their typecast characters – Charlie Day a confused and weak man, and Ice Cube the insanely aggressive and angry guy from the Jump Street movies.And when it's just those two on screen, this film really works well.
Again, it's not clever, and the best jokes come from the pair screaming at each other, or simply punching each other as in the film's off-the-chain final act, but it's all just silly and stupid enough to not matter.So, I'm surprised to say it, but I had a lot of fun with Fist Fight.
I don't know what you were expecting with a cast including Ice Cube, Charlie Day, Tracy Morgan and Jillian Bell.
And this weekend, another movie attempts to join the ranks of this category in the form of Fist Fight starring Charlie Day and Ice Cube.
Charlie Day's neurotic delivery makes up a good chunk of these moments, but Ice Cube's reactions often add a needed zing to maximize the laughs.
At times, you only wish Charlie Day or Ice Cube to smack them upside the head to offset the extreme stereotypes of the movie.
Charlie Day gets to another level of annoying proving that although he can be a great side kick, he is just not good for a main character role.People giving 9's probably see 1 movie in 5 years and then are impressed by it.
The quick verdict is that this film is dumb and the jokes don't always work but its still pretty fun.The film follows a teacher played by Charlie Day in a terrible school where they are cutting staff left and right.
I think Ice Cube is always in his element in films like this and him and Day do well enough together to warrant for some form of entertainment.
Fist Fight is a wasted - frankly unfunny comedy with a couple moments that are overshadowed by the muddling plot, the dry wit and the poorly written sophomoric jokes this is a mishap for the usually funny Cube and Day. VERDICT: A stupid, sophomoric comedy that is a muddled unfunny, an interesting take on a school comedy that is constantly derived by silliness..
Starring: Charlie Day, Ice Cube Director: Richie KeenThis is one of those movies that did not benefit from the rating of the film.
I honestly think the only reason this movie was made was just to get Charlie Day and Ice Cube together.
Ice Cube and Charlie Day are hilarious as two teachers facing against each other..
Ice Cube and Charlie Day going head to head about two high school teachers going to fight each other after school is basically what sums up the whole movie.
One revolves around teachers who are absolutely fed up with the students who have taken over their school, and the other focuses on the lead-up to Campbell (Charlie Day) and Strickland's (Ice Cube) fight.
The second half of the movie was a good watch...you just have to fight through the first half to get to it.
However, if nothing else, it is absolutely worth watching just to see Charlie Day and Ice Cube fight one another.
Watched the new comedy Fist Fight.
If you like Charlie Day and his style of comedy it comes through later in the movie.