Critics: Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake Lack "Chemistry" in Sex Scene
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Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake's Bad Teacher (in theaters Friday) has received mixed reactions from critics.
The adult-comedy -- which features Diaz, 38, as a drugged-up, uninterested seventh grade substitute teacher -- has been deemed everything from "breezily crude" to "refreshingly raucous."
"There is no chemistry, or indeed even mutual awareness between Diaz and Timberlake," Roger Ebert says of the former real-life couple. "You know those annual Bad Sex Awards for the worst sex scene in a movie? Their dry-humping scene deserves an award for the decade. The scene itself is pathetic. The shot it ends on — the wet spot on Timberlake's blue jeans — had the preview audience recoiling."
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But New York Times writer Manohla Dargis calls the film "a breezily crude comedy about unladylike pleasures like guzzling booze, swearing at children and being mean because, well, you can be, Cameron Diaz taps into her inner thug."
Bill Goodykoontz of the Arizona Republic credits actor Jason Segal, who plays a cynical gym teacher, as the film's only character who "seems like a real person instead of a caricature."
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MSN Movies' Glenn Kenny, however, calls Bad Teacher "a refreshingly raucous comedy that comes surprisingly close to completely living up to its lack of conviction."
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4I went and saw the movie last night. There is a reason they didn't have chemistry in those sex scenes...THEY WEREN"T SUPPOSED TO!!! That was the point of the movie.
if justin timberlake wasnt in it, than maybe i would go see it
Netflix it is.
Actually I find it refreshing they had no "chemistry" in the movie, since at the time they each had off screen partners! As a viewer, I have no need for the lead couple to have actual chemistry, it should be an act, not reality as it often turns into being. Tired of Hollywood types complimenting cheaters on and off screen.