All the ingredients for a knock out film – terrific idea, wonderful cast – but they stuff the execution. The macguffin of having Cameron Diaz want to raise up enough for fake boobs sounds funny, but doesn’t really hold up – will they definitely work to get her a rich man? What if she doesn’t get them, what will happen?
The action is dragged out too long, not enough time is given to her relationship with Jason Segel, or to show how she could be a good influence on students (this is no School of Rock), there seems to be a scene missing in her seduction with Justin Timberlake (one minute they are talking the next they are dry humping), the villain is actually just a good teacher, there’s this weird scene set in the men’s room (it’s a badly directed movie – the pacing is all off).
Diaz is excellent, Segel very good, Lucy Punch (nemesis) impresses, but Justin Timberlake is allowed to go over the top and caricature himself. A real shame.
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