Andy Campbell is a teacher at a public high school and is known as the nice guy. His wife is due any day now and he is set to dance with his daughter at her school talent show. It also happens to be the last day of school, so you'd think life couldn't be better. This school, however, has some unruly high schoolers, especially seniors, and is creating some extreme pranks such as traps throughout the school, a horse running free, and some not so appropriate images mowed into the lawn. The administration is also making huge cut backs, so many jobs are on the line. Andy's school is literally a mess and it gets much worse when he rats out a teacher for using an ax to chop up a desk after freaking out on a student. The teacher does not take being ratted out so well and tells Andy he needs to meet him in the parking lot at 3 o'clock to fight. So now Andy has to find out if he still has a job, maintain some order in an unruly school, meet his daughter for their dance, and fight another teacher. Andy doesn't know what to do, but he is sick of being the nice guy who always getting walked on. He can either try to make amends with his fellow teaching partner, ignore the fight altogether, or prove he isn't a doormat.
This movie was hilarious in that stupid funny way you'd expect after seeing the trailer. It clearly would never happen in real life and the concept was far fetched, but it made me laugh a lot which was exactly what I needed. So if you are in the mood for some dumb humor and you don't mind a lot of profanity, this is your movie. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 32% and IMDB gave it a 6/10. I'd say IMDB was spot on. It isn't going to win any awards and tended to drag a bit, but I promise you'll laugh if you can appreciate it for what it is. I also think teachers will appreciate the sentiment and message it sends regarding cut backs and expectations of educators.
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