Bad Teacher....the review

Just have to say, It's really bad when Grandma J goes to a Friday matinee, and then doesn't do a review until the next day.  Just saying.   But,  it's the next day and she's had her coffee, donuts and nap.....

Before arriving at the theatre, Grandma J stops off to get some snacks and  lunch, which fits neatly in her purse.....

As much as she la la loves Cameron Diaz, and as much as she thinks she's super funny, Grandma J wasn't over the moon about Bad Teacher.  Yes it was funny......but it was too raunchy like Bad Santa-ish.


Elizabeth starts out as a so-so teacher with a rich fiance' and can't wait to be a lady of leisure.  He ends up dumping her, with high marks going to his mother for this decision.   Elizabeth is totally ticked that she's lost her meal ticket, and her luxury living accommodations, and has to continue teaching....

Yes the cast was full of so many of Grandma J's favorite funny people......and she laughed like a hyena.  "..laughed like a hyena", is something Jack used to say.  But just know, Jack laughed like a hyena every time he saw a Jerry Lewis movie, or Soupy Sales.

Back to the review...

 Cameron Diaz as Elizabeth Halsey, is a school teacher who doesn’t bother to learn her kids names and spends class time showing them movies, and guzzling from airline-size bottles of liquor she keeps hidden in a false bottom of a desk drawer.

Teachers don't teach because the are looking for a rich husband.  And teachers don't rip off their school to pay for a boob job.  And,  teachers don't utter the F bomb in the classroom, unless they are driven to do it   for no good reason. 

All in all, Grandma J did like the movie in a crappy sort of way.  That being said, she doesn't  like the idea that every teenager in town was in the theatre, and it's even more astonishing that they were up and out of the house at 11:00 A.M.   Plus....can you just imagine being a teacher and going to a matinee on a Friday and running into Grandma J  some of your students?  

So,  because the movie was funny, and she would have enjoyed it more if there weren't so many kids in the theatre, Grandma J gives Bad Teacher......

Three out of five stars.

xoxo Grandma J