ELIZABETH HALSEY (Cameron Diaz) is a booze-addled wreck, draining her rich boyfriend dry until he finally musters the courage to dump her.
So she reluctantly returns to her teaching job.
Rebuffing the advances of oafish PE master Russell Gettis, Elizabeth sets her sights on handsome new teacher Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake), who has an expensive watch on his wrist.
However, Scott resists her flirtations and begins a romance with the school's prim and proper teacher, Amy Squirrel.
Elizabeth is used to getting her own way and she declares war on Amy, by fair means or foul.
Bad Teacher is a nice idea poorly executed, underpinned by a script with too few laughs and a central heroine whose selfish escapades leave us without a single drop of sympathy or affection for Elizabeth.
Diaz is a gifted comic actress, but she is on a hiding to nothing here, never quite hitting the target with the lacklustre one-liners.
