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Bad Teacher DVD
The plot follows Elizabeth Halsey (Diaz) as she returns to another pained year of teaching at John Adams Middle School following a breakup from her fiance after he discovers that she's a bit of a gold-digger. As the film's name implies, she's not the best teacher, but to be honest, if she'd been my teacher she would have been revered in the same way that Mrs Flanders was.
With the new year starting, a new supply teacher, Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake), starts at the school and when Elizabeth discovers that he's in line for the Delacorte fortune, she suddenly has a new plan in life; fake boobs to win Scott over.
Diaz plays the self-absorbed, reprobate teacher perfectly, dropping one-liners like razor blades and Timberlake's weird, holier than though character makes for a lot of laughs as the fall guy. Jason Segal puts in a good performance as the not quite so bad gym teacher, Russell Gettis, but in all fairness he's pretty much the same guy in every film he's in.
Apart from Diaz, the other great comic characters in Bad Teacher include pseudo-psychotic rival goody-two-shoes teacher Amy Squirrel, played brilliantly by Lucy Punch, and frumpy, genuinely nice teacher Lynn Davies (Phyllis Smith). Both of which have some of the best off-line comedy, including the Squirrell face, which is both genuinely disturbing and laugh out loud funny, and Lynn's reaction to talk of Chicago Bulls semen, which is genius.
Although Bad Teacher isn't going to be judged very kindly by the majority of big name critics, that doesn't take anything away from it. It is what it is; a really funny, silly DVD that will make you laugh every time - so long as you like that kind of thing. It's obviously a bit of a guy film, but I genuinely defy anyone to watch the Squirrel face scene without cracking up.
Bad Teacher DVD review: 3.8/5
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