the leading man is my tpye

Lack of good storyline.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

When I saw Morgan Spurlock was producing this, I thought I would check it out. I like Morgan's take on his documentary making, so, with his name attached, I thought it must be good.I started watching it, and something just seemed 'wrong'. All the teachers in it seemed to be like they were acting, and acting very badly. There is a 'fight' that takes place in the school yard, and the two people fighting look like they have never been in a fight before (and I mean that in it is so obviously a 'fake fight' it was terrible) and then a 'teacher' comes out to stop it...and it's just so phony! At this point, I looked the film up, to find out it was a 'mockumentary' and all the teachers WERE actors! The second half of the film was then 10 times worse, coz I knew the actors were acting, it really showed how bad they were at acting (I'm really using the term 'acting' here very loosely).From first impression, I thought this was going to be an insight in the American education system. Instead, I was shown bad acting, that seemed to make a mockery of the American education system. It's really not worth wasting your time on.

Perhaps this movie is some sort of satire that I just don't get!? I don't see what is good about this movie. It was awful. I rented what I thought would be a "hilarious, laugh out loud comedy" and what I got was a boring, frustrating film that made me ponder how bad the US School System really is?I'm not a teacher, but from I remember from high school (which was only 5 years ago) the teachers had much more control and discipline over their students. We were not allowed to talk back to the teacher, have cell phones or skateboard on campus! The unprofessionalism of the teachers was unbelievable. None of my high school teachers would ever have behaved that way.

it was not immediately clear that this was a scripted movie; as a documentary it would have fared better.the realism is there, unfortunately. any former teacher who watches this is likely to experience a particularly poisonous form of nostalgia for the first few years of the classroom.so we are left with a "comedy" that is not funny and a "documentary" that includes a fantasy dance sequence between two of the teachers, along with extraneous footage of teachers playing basketball at the end of the school year.this is the only movie about school i've ever considered turning off.

I think this movie is hilarious, although I question its mass market appeal. I've been teaching for five years and found the characters resembled many people I know; the students, too, were believable (I can't even count the number of times I have had to request that people stop making beats in class.) I particularly like Coach Webb's comment to the her now-administrator friend: Do you even remember how hard teaching is? This is a question every teacher I know longs to ask his or her administrative team.One thing that could have made the film funnier would be to play up the nonsensical bureaucratic bullsh** a teacher has to go through. I can think of several things off the top of my head that seem over the top but that I did, in fact, experience. Think "Office Space" meets education. However, I watched it with a non-teaching friend, and he was bored throughout....