Seeking out the
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Bad Teacher
Directed by
Jake Kasdan
Produced by Jimmy Miller
Written by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg
Produced by Jimmy Miller
Written by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg
With:
Cameron Diaz, Lucy Punch, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake, Phyllis Smith, John Michael Higgins, Matthew J. Evans, Kaitlyn Dever, Molly Shannon, Eric Stonestreet, Thomas Lennon, Nat Faxon, David Paymer, Paul Feig, and Rick Overton
Cinematography:
Alar Kivilo
Editing: Tara Timpone
Music: Michael Andrews
Editing: Tara Timpone
Music: Michael Andrews
Runtime:
92 min
Release Date: 24 June 2011
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 24 June 2011
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
Bad Teacher is an unfunny comedy that plays like an experiment by its creators to
see how intentionally unlikable a main character in a movie can be without
losing the audience. Unfortunately
the answer won’t be found in this film as Cameron Diaz’s
junior-high-school-teacher-who-just-doesn’t-give-a-fuck wears out her welcome
within the first ten minutes.
Hopefully the makers of Hollywood comedies will soon exhaust their need
to make films like this, which seem to serve no purpose other than to provide
enough “shock and ha” to be cut up into two and half minute trailers that make people
want to buy tickets -- and then regret that they did.