Bad Teacher

Blu Ray

  • Score
    68
    from 2 reviewers
  • Bad Teacher is a smart, well-acted comedy that entertains despite its limitations.

    Bad Teacher
    2011
    92 min
    R
    DTS-HD MA
  • Video
    75
  • The color palette of the comedy is vibrant with richly-saturated primary and bold secondary hues, imparting a lively and warm visual experience.

  • Audio
    70
  • The film's audio design creates a convincing space with lively reverb in a school dance scene, outshining the rest, while offering a pleasingly active and ambient experience throughout.

  • Extra
    48
  • Explore the main characters' depths with 'Jams Yearbook -- Hidden Moments' in 1080p, an interactive experience from the DVD including R-rated or unrated options.

  • Movie
    60
  • Screenwriters Stupnitsky and Eisenberg fuse characters' facades with deep motives, except for the poised Elizabeth, in a world where educators daringly defy norms.

    DTS-HD MA

    Director: Jake Kasdan

    Actors: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake

    Plot: A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job, her students, and her co-workers is forced to return to teaching to make enough money for breast implants after her wealthy fiancé dumps her.

    Disc Release Date: 18 October 2011

    all scores

    Blu-ray.com review by Martin Liebman
    • Video
      100
    • ...

    • Audio
      80
    • There's a good sense of realistic space and reverberation in a school dance sequence, which is probably the film's most sonically-active stretch....

    • Extra
      50
    • Jams Yearbook -- Hidden Moments (1080p): This interactive supplement allows viewers to learn a little more about all of the main characters: Students Arkady, Chase Rubin Rossi, Garrett Tiara, and Sasha...

    • Movie
      70
    • It expertly blends their phony fa�ades and true inner beliefs and motives as one slowly reveals the other, except for Elizabeth, who is actually the film's most balanced character, even if that balance...

    • Total
      80
    • Bad Teacher isn't must-see, life-changing filmmaking, but it's an easygoing, well-crafted, smartly-written, and nicely acted little cinematic diversion that surpasses its measly expectations and delivers...

    High-Def Digest review by M. Enois Duarte
    • Video
      80
    • The palette displays lots of vibrant, richly-saturated primaries while secondary hues are equally bold and full of life, adding a great deal of warmth to the comedy....

    • Audio
      80
    • Not the sort to compare with action-packed material, the movie's design still offers generally pleasing activity and ambiance in the rears....

    • Extra
      20
    • Supplements mirror those found on the DVD, which includes the choice of the R-rated or the unrated version of the movie....

    • Movie
      50
    • Screenwriters Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, who have worked together on several episodes of the much funnier 'The Office,' would like audiences to imagine a world where an educator gets away with...

    • Total
      70
    • Along with Justin Timberlake, Lucy Punch, and Jason Segel, the black comedy is an amusing watch but not quite as memorable as it really wants to be, and it could actually go much blacker....