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38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Bad Teacher is a worthy successor to the benchmark black comedy "Bad Santa" (without being at all the same).
- 60EmpireChris Hewitt (1)EmpireChris Hewitt (1)Broader than Bad Santa and less consistently funny, it's still gleefully rude, crude and often a lot of fun.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeFor all her desk-stashed booze and inappropriately tight skirts, the movie offers Diaz a pretty bland badness.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThe movie works-to the extent that it does-because of its sharply un-PC script (credited to Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky) that sometimes feels like a Hollywood rewrite of "Election."
- 60Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzProbably it's a combination of those and other elements that leads to Diaz's bad teacher not being as bad as she might have been and Bad Teacher not as good as it could have been.
- 50VarietyLeslie FelperinVarietyLeslie FelperinWhat's singularly lacking here is any sense of how to use the underage characters, who, apart from one or two, are a barely distinguishable gaggle.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanWe're just watching a film try to pass off misanthropic blunt-wittedness as "edge."
- 50Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreBad Teacher is a pulled punch, a pot-smoking/kid cussing/teacher copulating farce that is less than the sum of its parts.
- 38Slant MagazineNick SchagerSlant MagazineNick SchagerDespite aping its title in order to suggest quality by association, Bad Teacher has nothing in common with "Bad Santa" -- including, alas, a genuinely nasty sense of humor.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceIn a role hardly larger than a cameo despite the fact that he's ostensibly the male romantic lead, Segel never tries to hide that he's only here to pay his mortgage - which makes him the most likeable presence on-screen