2012 comedy
Rating: 10/20 (Josh: no rating; Jeremy: no rating; my students: no rating)
Plot: A former teacher-of-the-year who just doesn't care anymore becomes inspired after it's announced that budget problems are going to cause Fonzi to lose his job. He decides to become a mixed martial arts fighter to help save his school.
Henry Winkler is probably the best thing about this movie, but it's kind of sad that he seems to play nothing but wide-eyed dumb characters at this stage in his career. I don't really know if that's true because I'm not really sure what he's done.
We used to watch movies every once in a while at my school, but that practice kind of stopped after somebody realized that piping movies into every classroom in the building was probably illegal. But this was standardized testing week, so exceptions had to be made. 8th graders like when portly fellows fall down, when anybody is kneed in the head, and especially when somebody vomits on somebody else. We actually didn't get to see the end of the movie, but I knew what the end of the movie would be about five minutes in. You know that Kevin James, always strangely likable even though he never seems like the type of guy who should even be in movies, will get the girl, win the big fight, save the school, become that inspired teacher again. You know that the student who likes music will end up changing her father's mind. You even know that the guy training Kevin James will earn his citizenship at the end of the movie. If only the ride to get to all those stops was a little more fun. This wasn't really funny at all unfortunately. I did think that Kevin James looked pretty good in the parts of the movie where he was required to be athletic. Guy could throw a punch convincingly.
Co-workers and Bad Movie Club guys Jeremy and Josh and I opened up a Google Hangout so that we could discuss the movie. I forgot to ask them for their ratings.
Also, because of a nutty schedule, one of my classes this week was an hour and ten minutes longer than my other classes. I found various ways to waste that time and showed them Sherlock Jr. today. They seemed to like that one even though there isn't any projectile vomiting scenes.
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