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'Bad Movie': Raunchy film wastes Diaz, rest of cast

Showcasing the over-the-top comedic talents of Cameron Diaz isn’t a bad idea. She often adds fearless humor and genuine charm to roles that her contemporaries simply wouldn’t be brave enough to accept.

However, placing her in the center of a poorly constructed script (by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg) doesn’t help director Jake Kasdan do justice to Diaz or her fellow cast members, including Justin Timberlake, Jason Segel and Lucy Punch.

Various factors make “Bad Teacher” a bad movie, but the most glaring is the main character, Elizabeth (Diaz), an irresponsible, boozing sycophant who would never be capable of being a teacher.

It’s a momentarily amusing concept that quickly looses that gut-busting steam that one looks for in a comedy, when it becomes clear that Elizabeth has neither the intellectual nor emotional depth to do anything in any job. Her behavior makes her as unlikeable as she is unemployable, and it’s a joke that can’t carry an entire film.

 Elizabeth’s singular goal in life is to snag a wealthy husband and then proceed to spend his money. After being kicked to the curb by a rich guy she doesn’t love, Elizabeth finds herself resentfully resuming her “job” as a middle-school teacher.

Determined to raise enough money to have breast augmentation so she can land a new sugar-daddy, the disgruntled teacher begins to think of devious ways to procure fast cash, including helping herself to proceeds from her students’ fundraising car wash.

Catching on to Elizabeth’s inappropriate scheme is a tightly wound fellow teacher, Amy Squirrel (Punch), who manages to incite instant antagonism and rivalry between the two, especially when substitute teacher Scott (Timberlake) reveals he’s single and the recipient of long-standing family wealth.

Also in the mix is the

affable gym teacher Russell (Segel), who suggests to

Elizabeth that they might date but is succinctly brushed off, yet continues to be intrigued by her.

Consumed with landing a man of means, Elizabeth uses her whole bag of dirty tricks as she and Amy vie for Scott’s attentions.

 After weeks of sleeping at her desk and drinking on the job, Elizabeth finds out that a large cash bonus will be awarded to the teacher who brings in the highest state test scores, so she begins a relentless schedule of bizarre punishments for every wrong answer she receives from her clueless students. Eventually, the idea of actually trying to “teach” is thrown out the window and Elizabeth opts for the easier method of stealing a copy of the exam and (unbeknownst to her students) arranging for them to cheat.

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