{"id":1132,"date":"2011-06-24T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvdpinson.com\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2011-06-24T12:45:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T19:45:34","slug":"bad-teacher-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"Bad Teacher Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/24_0006_C+-merged1211.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1133\" title=\"24_0006_C+-merged\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/24_0006_C+-merged1211.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/hostedbadge.php?s=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Bad Teacher<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/b131.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1135\" title=\"b1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/b131-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad Teacher\u201d proves that an antihero comedy can be a tough sale. It\u2019s hard to pull for (and laugh at) someone who has no redeeming qualities. Billy Bob Thornton pulled it off in \u201cBad Santa\u201d because he\u2019s good at being rotten. Will Ferrell sold Ron Burgundy (\u201cAnchorman\u201d), who was a selfish womanizer, basically because he loved his little dog, Baxter, so very much as to have a complete breakdown once the canine was punted from a bridge. Cameron Diaz does not fare so well as the terrible educator, Elizabeth Halsey, however. She spends the movie smoking weed, yelling at kids and lying her way through life. You need to love hating an antihero. With Diaz, it\u2019s too easy getting stuck on the hate part.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/b41111.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1136\" title=\"b4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/b4111-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMiss Halsey is a reluctant teacher who is looking for a sugar daddy to whisk her away from her drab existence. She is awful and rude to everyone around her and does not go to the trouble to sugarcoat her opinions. When her rich fianc\u00e9 realizes that she is only after his bankroll, he dumps her quick, leaving her to go find her next victim. She decides that she needs a breast augmentation (boob job) if she is going to land a solid chump and spends the rest of the movie cheating and stealing from children to accumulate enough resources for the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>That about sums it up. We are never told why she is so horrible and materialistic, we are just spoon feed scene after scene that features Diaz cursing the punch lines. I like crude\/rude humor as much as the next frat boy but some substance would have been nice. There is a slight romance-interest-thing with the hilarious American actor Jason Segel (\u201cForgetting Sarah Marshall\u201d) and a rivalry-with-the-prissy-teacher-thing concerning the hilarious British actress Lucy Punch (\u201cDinner with Schmucks\u201d) and Diaz spends the entire film saying ridiculous statements that are meant to be shocking but usually just come off as mildly irritating.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/b21122.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1137\" title=\"b2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/b21122.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe sad thing about \u201cBad Teacher\u201d is that nearly everyone surrounding Diaz generates laughs. Punch is amazing as the schizoid across the hall and Segel is as likeable as ever. Justin Timberlake tries too hard throughout but even he has a chuckle-able moment involving completed sexual activity with his pants on. Director Jake Kasdan (\u201cOrange County\u201d \u201cWalk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story\u201d) knows funny and is working here, for the first time in his career, with a script he didn\u2019t write himself. It shows and most of his personal touches are missing. The movie rests far too much on what little value there is to Diaz acting like a bad girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad Teacher \u201cBad Teacher\u201d proves that an antihero comedy can be a tough sale. It\u2019s hard to pull for (and laugh at) someone who has no redeeming qualities. Billy Bob Thornton pulled it off in \u201cBad Santa\u201d because he\u2019s good at being rotten. Will Ferrell sold Ron Burgundy (\u201cAnchorman\u201d), who was a selfish womanizer, basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2225,3792,10183,10439,11403,12773],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-bad-teacher-movie-review","tag-cameron-diaz","tag-jake-kasdan","tag-jason-segel","tag-justin-timberlake","tag-lucy-punch"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}