Not so much bad as mildly naughty, this Cameron Diaz vehicle has moments of daft, lewd greatness which are never sustained or pushed far enough to make this a truly memorable film. The film has a lot of delightful characters and performances on offer, from a charmingly-observed Justin Timberlake to nicely-nuanced fellow teachers Jason Segel and Phyllis Smith and a rip-roaring Lucy Punch as Diaz's obnoxiously good but increasingly deranged nemesis, the delightfully-named Amy Squirrel. The script is thin, the plotting obvious, and Cameron Diaz still relies too much on the smile, the body and the hair, but Bad Teacher is nevertheless a harmless and occasionally amusing lightweight comedy.
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