Bad education: Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake can't save Bad Teacher
Shares its comedic DNA. Unfortunately, that connection predominantly involves irreverent, irredeemable and unlikable protagonists we’re asked to cheer for against all sense of logic and decency. After getting dumped by her rich fiancée for being a gold digger, the suddenly cash-strapped Elizabeth Halsey (Diaz) reluctantly returns for her second year teaching at John Adams Middle School. Elizabeth is hostile to her students and coworkers. She spends her nights—and often workdays—getting drunk and high, and then sleeps off the hangover by babysitting her seventh graders with school-related films like Stand and Deliver .Elizabeth also decides that her road to happiness includes breast enlargement surgery. Unable to afford a boob job on a teacher’s salary, she dons her daisy dukes to raise money for the school’s annual car wash fundraiser just so she can skim the profits. She solicits bribes from parents in exchange for giving their children good grades. She makes advances towards Scott (Justin Timberlake), a rich, feckless substitute teacher with a predilection for cardigans and dry humping. And, when she learns a bonus for the teacher whose class has the highest end-of-grade test results, she drugs a school administrator in order to steal the answer key and use it for test prep.
The most devious trick of Bad Teacher is slyly luring the audience into rooting for Elizabeth’s foul-mouthed misdeeds to win out over her nemesis, Amy (Lucy Punch), a holier-than-thou coworker whose main transgressions are taking pride in being a good teacher and ferreting out Elizabeth’s actual misconduct.
That unsavory sleight-of-hand, together with director Jake Kasdan’s send-up of classroom pieties, isn’t enough to compensate for the lazy scatology and off-color one-liners about blacks, Jews, gays and “Orientals” that are offensive principally because they lack any satirical context. Only Jason Segel gets good quips as Russell the sardonic gym teacher, whether he’s taking Elizabeth down a peg as he doggedly pursues her affections or arguing with a student that Michael Jordan was a better basketball player than LeBron James. Otherwise, the wayward jokes, like the film’s disjointed storyline and superficial characters, lack wit or rhythm.
In the end, the only “nice” thing Elizabeth does is salvaging the cred of the class nerd (Matthew J.
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She spends her nights—and often workdays—getting drunk and high, and then sleeps off the hangover by babysitting her seventh graders with school-related films like Stand and Deliver, Lean On Me and Dangerous Minds. Elizabeth also decides that her
The project will cost the district $3500 for materials and keep the crew off the road while repairs are made, but that is a third less, Lankford said, than parts from a Caterpillar dealer. The board also discussed a bulk purchase of grader blades
Eighth-grader Fabiana Ingram of Wellington Landings Middle School won the girls 1600-meter championship at the Palm Beach County Track and Field Championships. The competition was held May 23-24 at Park Vista High School. Ingram, 14, won the race in a
Cheryl Adams-Williams, of Pikesville, said she hopes the school will give her son, Connor, who will enter the school as an eighth-grader in the fall, the extra help he needs so he won't struggle when he enters high school the following year.
Is anyone embarrassed that we now have a TV game show, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader, where contestants let the world know what they don't know? Have we lost our respect for smart people who have credibility and credentials because they don't
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Adams Number 8 Road Grader
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On display at the Hole 'n the Rock roadside attraction is this early horse or mule drawn road grader.
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