A comedy centered around a foul-mouthed, junior high teacher who, after being dumped by her sugar daddy, begins to woo a colleague -- a move that pits her against a well-loved teacher.
Freaks And Geeks and Zero Effect seem a long time ago as director Jake Kasdan offers up a film simultaneously loose and strained, full of underlined punchlines. Proof that comedy really is in the. Timing.
Broader than Bad Santa and less consistently funny, it's still gleefully rude, crude and often a lot of fun.
This movie’s engine is too sputtering and feeble to get it anywhere.
A high-school satire that is reasonably funny, though far from sure how badass it really wants to be.
Diaz’s game charms are semi-squandered on a script that’s two-thirds filler. Not quite detention, but on thin ice.
Bad Teacher should have been a guilty pleasure that graduated with comedy honours. Sadly, it fails to make the grade.
Loathsome, in fact, and not funny. Jake Kasdan, once a promising director, doesn't have a clue how to make it work.
Hers is a character so unpleasant and so self-centered that you watch her with the same repelled fascination usually reserved for a rattlesnake.
No classic, it's brisk, puerile fun with added charm thanks to the game cast.
Fails to make the grade.
Bad Teacher delivers a watchable comic performance from Diaz.
Could be worse.
Bad Teacher mines another responsibility-laden occupation for outrageous laughs only to come up frustratingly short on actual gut-busters.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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