Failing test scores, drunk teachers, and an extortionist principal; it's up to vice principal Tom to expose the principal's corruption and turn the school around before the school board shut... Read allFailing test scores, drunk teachers, and an extortionist principal; it's up to vice principal Tom to expose the principal's corruption and turn the school around before the school board shuts them down.Failing test scores, drunk teachers, and an extortionist principal; it's up to vice principal Tom to expose the principal's corruption and turn the school around before the school board shuts them down.
Eva Longoria
- Rebecca Seabrook
- (as Eva Longoria Parker)
Hayes MacArthur
- Digdug O'Shaughnessy
- (as Hayes Macarthur)
Timothy Dowling
- Robber
- (as Tim Dowling)
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Lower Learning is pure crap, plain and simple. I love Jason Biggs, but this movie has nothing hilarious about it. I was bored senseless through this movie actually, and don't recall laughing even once. Eva Longoria Parker may be famous due to her Desprate Houswives part, but I do not care for her at all. Surprisingly I enjoy trashy DTV stuff, i'm very open minded, but there is nothing what so ever, enjoyable about this. Rob Coddry's character as the principal is especially disgusting.
Bottom line. Nothing much to view here. Spend your time on better comedies.
2/10
Bottom line. Nothing much to view here. Spend your time on better comedies.
2/10
It opened up funny. It opened up with a unique look at school.
Then it seemed to disappear somewhere into strange and stupid land.
Then the humor came back for a while.
Then it disappeared again..
It has moments of being really good, then all of a sudden loses everything again and becomes a wreck.
Sometimes the scenes were downright stupid and senseless and the acting was horrible and the dialog was outright stupid and boring and useless.
Other times the scenes were horribly insanely funny.
I think you might enjoy it more if you're not sober.
Then it seemed to disappear somewhere into strange and stupid land.
Then the humor came back for a while.
Then it disappeared again..
It has moments of being really good, then all of a sudden loses everything again and becomes a wreck.
Sometimes the scenes were downright stupid and senseless and the acting was horrible and the dialog was outright stupid and boring and useless.
Other times the scenes were horribly insanely funny.
I think you might enjoy it more if you're not sober.
OK, it is not "dead poets society" or "good will hunting". It is in reality much more like "police academy" for schools. That being said, don't expect high brow humor and you will be pleased. I went in with low expectations because it is a Jason Biggs film, and i was thoroughly pleased. The supporting cast his hilarious! They make the film. Eva Longoria Parker is great, as is Monica Potter. The cast is wonderful as burned out teachers, and the kids are great in their roles both as victims and as accessories. Another special standout in the film is the principle, Rob Corddry. He is hilarious as the sleazy con artist. It is worth your time, just don't expect high brow comedy.
With 2 big names (Eva Longoria and Jason Biggs) playing leading roles in a satirical film about failing education; this film aimed to hit the higher targets. Yet, through a series of dead-end, awkward jokes and innuendos; this film failed to even meet the lower targets.
This film only gains any credibility through the children's credible and compelling performances. Perhaps this film would have been better with an entirely child based crew working on its production like a more updated idea of 'Bugsy Malone'.
Regardless; the plot lacked sequence and organisation, much of the acting was frightful at best and the incongruous plot holes allow me to rate this as the worst film I have ever watched.
Lower Learning is as titled, lower learning.
This film only gains any credibility through the children's credible and compelling performances. Perhaps this film would have been better with an entirely child based crew working on its production like a more updated idea of 'Bugsy Malone'.
Regardless; the plot lacked sequence and organisation, much of the acting was frightful at best and the incongruous plot holes allow me to rate this as the worst film I have ever watched.
Lower Learning is as titled, lower learning.
Well, a waste of Cordry, at least. I really wish the writers and editors hadn't been lazy for this film, it coulda been funny. It was fimed well but thats not saying much when the material was lacking. It was a series of throwaway dark skits. Like, maybe, a bunch of deleted Upright Citizen Brigade scenes, not quite ready for the big show. A lot of the little story ideas were good but when they were put together for a full length film, they just didn't seem to work. Try again, writer/director guy, but this time, maybe write a better outline and make sure you know what you want the the audience to feel and, most of all, write BETTER jokes.
Did you know
- GoofsWhen brainstorming with Tom Willoman, Rebecca Seabrook writes on the chalkboard an idea involving dragons. She misspells Komodo as kimodo.
- Quotes
Turner Abernathy: I'm talking about a different kind of love. The kind of love that's wet and smells a little.
- SoundtracksI'm in Edukashun
Written by Zach Selwyn
Performed by Zachariah
Courtesy of Papago Records and Desert Hobo Music (ASCAP)
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- Desperate Teachers
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- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,804
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,550
- Oct 12, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $2,804
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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