One thing for certain that’s expected of mass marketed cinema like Bad Teacher is to be morally true.

In real life people at almost every moment never make their decisions in complete right or wrong, there’s usually a lot of very murky grey water that they tread through, and the same happens in film. However, usually when all is said and done the villain goes to jail and learns his/her lesson and the good guy/girl figures out where they went wrong and fixes everything. In the case of Bad Teacher it’s the complete opposite.

*SPOILERS FOR BAD TEACHER*

So in Bad Teacher Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) plays just a generally superficial horrible woman who uses her good looks to land a rich man who’ll be able to keep her in a comfortable lifestyle. After the opening scene where her fiancé breaks off their engagement she decides to hound the newest, very wealthy, substitute teacher – Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake) – as her next possible man. However, not only is he emotionally unavailable, but he ends up later in the film being interested in the overly happy follow the rules ridiculous red head across the hall, Amy Squirrel (Lucy Punch). What does Elizabeth do in the predicament? She not only continues to ruin Amy and Scott’s relationship in a chance to create her own little fling with him, but she cuts every corner and runs every scam in mind to make enough cash to get a boob job (once again in the off chance of landing that deep pocketed man).

I have absolutely no problem with anything that the story puts forward in the above paragraph. Where I take offense is the resolution to all of the above.

While still looking for money to make her knockers really open doors, she finds out that she can win a massive bonus if she manages to get her class to score the highest on the state exam. Of course, after trying to get these results organically and failing she resorts to stealing the exam from the state board. She wins. She gets everything she wants. She gets the money, she gets to dry hump Justin Timberlake and she even pisses off her annoying across the hall redhead.

Soon enough we reach the scene where hopefully every horrible thing she’s done so far is going to come back and bite her in the ass, probably not as bad as if it were real life but good enough so. The red head, the real good person, figures everything out and confronts her and puts her up against a board. However, Elizabeth finds a way to make the state exam representative to renounce his statement and lie for her, gets the redhead fired for drug possession (that’s actually Elizabeth’s), ruins Scott and Amy’s relationship only to refuse Scott, and eventually figures out that the guy she really wants is the really funny and sensitive gym teacher that she’s spent the entire runtime of the movie insulting and refusing to say more than “FUCK YOU” to, played by Jason Segel. Added to all of this, the film asks us to applaud her.

How dare you Hollywood! How Dare you! I’m all for morally questionable characters, but how dare you want me to applaud this horrible person for probably ruining not only (at least) five people’s careers but also a classroom full of really naturally curious children who just want to learn. She even figures out that she wants to gym teacher after handing over her bra to one of her students and claiming that he got a handjob.

So what this movie is telling anyone who doesn’t already have their own view on life is that no matter how horrible you are to people it’ll be ok, once you’re hot and everyone want s to fuck you.

Thanks Hollywood. I know a lot of the actors don’t really care and their just doing a job, but honestly this is stupid. It’s sad and it definitely doesn’t help that 95% of this movie isn’t funny or entertaining in any way, it’s just stupid and I’m sorry for anyone out there who liked this movie.

What do you think of Bad Teacher? Did it offend you as much as it did me?