MoviesSome Came Running by Glenn Kenny

The current cinema, aspirational edition

By June 22, 2011January 12th, 20262 Comments

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Just kid­ding. But it goes with the pic­ture, see? In any event, neither Cars 2 nor Bad Teacher (pic­tured above, with Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz) are likely to win any awards in the Overweening Ambition depart­ment, but both land pretty squarely in the Largely Enjoyable depart­ment, and that ain’t noth­ing. My reviews for MSN Movies, here and here. The more con­scien­tious, in the Conscientiousness depart­ment at least, A Better Life is not nearly as good, even, but does more than get by, some might believe, on the strength of its lead per­form­ances. I review that one here. 

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2 Comments

  • J Alary says:
    June 22, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    As a teach­er, I’m biased, but I have to con­fess that after see­ing the red-band trail­er for Bad Teacher, I was secretly hop­ing the rest of the film would be as darkly com­ic­al and vul­gar and it appears, thank­fully, that this is the case. I know some teach­ing col­leagues dis­ap­prove of the film (Waiting for Superman is still heav­ily on many teach­ers’ minds), but were they out­raged when Election came out? I would think that teach­ers, espe­cially our under­paid, under-appreciated col­leagues in the USA, would appre­ci­ate a vul­gar work­place com­edy after hav­ing to wrap the school year up, mark­ing final exams, fin­ish­ing report cards and return­ing con­fis­cated iPods and phones.

  • llj says:
    June 22, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    I’m so glad that LeBron did­n’t get his ring; the joke in the Bad Teacher trail­er still stands!