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Summary: Will Mrs. Tingle ever learn?
Review: Mrs. Tingle (Helen Mirren) is a teacher who is hated by almost everyone, including students and even most of the other faculty members. Mrs. Tingle seems to have a dislike for everyone, even if they're super smart, such as Leigh Ann (Katie Holmes). Leigh Ann must be the valedictorian in order to get a scholarship and have a chance to attend college. It seems like the only obstacle in her way is Mrs. Tingle's judgement. "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" wasn't a bad movie at all. Helen Mirren does a spectacular job playing as the dreaded Mrs. Tingle, and the movie is very interesting, especially after you find out what Leigh Ann's and two of her friends' plans are to do with Mrs. Tingle. Just as long as you like interesting movies that don't get boring, give "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" a chance! It just might teach you a lesson.
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Summary: Tingle is Defianetly Taught in a Suspensful & Comical Film
Review: One of my favorite movies along with the spectacular "Moulan Rouge," outragous "Meet the Parents," and the inspirational "Music of the Heart," I will go against the other reviewers and give this movie the maxium of stars. "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" is a twisted story with hilarious events, romance, and suspensful scenes. The whole cast is excellent including Helen Mirren as the cruel, devilsish teacher. Buy this video now!!
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Summary: Kevin Williamson scores yet another great movie
Review: Ok,I have to say that I am one of the few people who actually like this movie.It's yet another movie that got bad reviews and it deserved good ones.It had great performances from the entire cast.It was brilliantly written by Kevin Williamson.If you love twisted type of humor,this movie is definatly for you.A great movie that everyone should see.
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Summary: Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Review: If you want a laugh you have got to get Teaching Mrs. Tingle. You will laugh and laugh. I love the movie and you can't miss it. It has everything you may want, comedy, romance, violence (a little) and much more. You don't know what you are missing! :)
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Summary: "Boring Mr Tobin" is a more Realistic Title.
Review: "Teaching Mrs Tingle" seems to be So Scared of Offending someone that it dares not show a Hint of Violence or Gore. It also looks like it's been Edited to it's Bare Bones so we only get the Basic kidnap story, a few jokes, a love triangle, a Wussy ending, and.. Hey Presto, a Box Office Flop. Shame on all involved, (except Helen Mirren) Especially Mr Williamson.. You turned down writing "Scream 3" for This.. Deary Me. Katie Holmes looks embarrassed in the lead role, Barry Watson looks out of his depth and Marisa Coughlan try's her best and pulls off the Best performance of the three. She is still no match for Helen Mirren who has a downright silly role, very much beneath an Actress of her Stature, but her Professionalism takes over and she gives it her all, making the film always Bearable. Every piece of Teeth-Grindingly Bad Dialogue she has to sprout, she does so with an Evil Grin and a Wicked Stare. All the Films Enjoyment comes from her. The Supporting cast is Quite an Oddity. Molly Ringwald, Michael McKean and Vivica A Fox all have tiny little roles that hardly have any screen time, or any point. That's what leads me to believe the film has been largly edited. Quite a shame as those three performances were far more interesting than the three on the Poster.
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Summary: Most Enjoyable game of cat and mouse
Review: Put aside plausibility and settle down for an amusing film full of twists and turns. Envision the high school teacher everyone disliked...and for good reason. Mrs Tingle is a sort of revenge fantasy type flick that turns into a psychological drama. The characters are pretty believable, and Katie Holmes is fun to watch as the put upon Leigh Ann. The film makes many good points about small town life, and ambition. Mrs Tingle is a complicated character, and crafty as well. Very Entertaining and funny as well.
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Summary: NOT GOOD
Review: First of all, how in the world can anyone call this a comedy? It shows some lady that gets pleasure out of making honest students' lives a living hell. Three kids cheat and she turns them into the office. They don't know what to do, so they just raid her house, shoot her with a dart, and hold her captive at her own home. Really bad. I don't want to write anything more about this.
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Summary: one of my favorite movies
Review: I think more teens would like this, is not the sort of thing adults apreciate. I loved it, i loved the story line, the acting, the actors there wasnt one fault with it. The movie is full of twists and i totaly didnt see things comming. everyone else seems not to have liked the ending but i realy dont see whats not to like. This is a great comedy and must be seen by all teens.
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Summary: Youth of America, be insulted.
Review: Ah, what better way to relax on a dull, damp Saturday night than to watch a good, mindless teen slasher flick? Let's just say that 15 minutes into this disgustingly lazy conundrum of week-old tripe, licking around the base of a toilet seemed like a fun, relaxing diversion. Oi vey. It starts out innocently enough. Katie Holmes is Leighann, a hardworking and wholesome high school senior who needs a scholarship to attend college. The only class that stands in her way is history with Mrs. Tingle, in which she needs an A to be on top of her class. We meet her just as she finishes her history presentation project, a stunning replica of a diary that might've been kept by an accused witch during the Salem witch hunts. Helen Mirren is Mrs. Tingle, who is just poorly scripted and overwrought from the beginning. We meet her as she stridently plows down the hall and students clear the way in melodramatic fright. She intimidates the principal before marching into her classroom to witness her students' presentations. Holmes gives a very good, sincere delivery concerning her mock journal, which, unbelievably, is ostracized by Mirren. Also important later on is another student's project, a crossbow, (which provides an inane and gape-worthy scene where the presenter idiotically loads the thing and - surprise, surprise - it nearly hits someone (Holmes' overdone rival for the scholarship) and the pretty boy slacker played by Barry Watson. Well, Holmes meets with her saucy aspiring actress pal, played by Marisa Coughlin, after school in the gymnasium to complain about the injustice of it all. Watson, lust object of Coughlin, saunters in with a little present for Holmes - a copy of Mirren's final exam. Nonplussed, Holmes tries to repudiate Watson's offering, but he tosses it to her and she is ultimately caught by a smirking, adolescently jubilant Mirren who just can't wait to rake this little upstart over the coals. Holmes pleads all the way to the office and gets off easy for the time being as the principal has conveniently retired for the afternoon. Anxious, she commences with Watson and Coughlin, who agree that Mirren must be sated. Plan A: Reason with Mirren and reinforce that Holmes, indeed,is innocent. This fails miserably and the three end up in Mirren's spooky old house, threatening the old hag desperately with - get this - the crossbow. Before you know it, she is tied to her bed and mayhem ensues. Now Mirren has quite a wizened, stagey disposition as Mrs. Tingle. She often alludes dramatically to plays and other movies - the works and characters of Shakespeare, in particular - and used this prima-donna streak to (successfully!) manipulate Holmes and Coughlin (the latter, especially, must be mildly mentally retarded). Crazy stuff happens: Mirren convinces Holmes that she will never be successful with men; Holmes immediately ups and offers herself to Watson, whom Coughlin is lusting after, very zealously (we even get the ol' cut-to-the-hearth snip to replace the dirty details while lamely conoting that this is hot, sticky, passionate sex). Mirren's clandestine boy-toy, the phys-ed teacher, saunters by and the teens turn this possible disaster into a plan to blackmail Mirren by getting "Spanky" drunk on wine and dragging him into bed with Mirren for a little photo shoot. No can do. As the movie creaks and groans on, what little plot there was to start with is reduced to embarassingly nebulous proportions. Holmes alters the marks in Mirren's gradebook. Meanwhile, Mirren turns Coughlin against Holmes for the romp with Watson. The teens take care to deliver the gradebook to the guidance office from whence the grades are posted, revealing Holmes' "A" in history and her position on top of the class. Her opponent is incensed and incredulous. Meanwhile, we learn that Mirren has gotten loose and has called the school to report the phony grades. Holmes believes that Coughlin has ratted until she learns the truth and races to Mirren's house. In a lame action sequence which is reminiscent of Homer strangling Bart on the Simpsons, Mirren strangles Holmes and the two bang each other up and down the stairs. Mirren finds the crossbow and shoots at Holmes as she darts out the door only to hit Holmes' rival who has come to protest her grade. And she gets caught. And the rival isn't really dead, see, because just as in the first scene when she is nearly hit with the arrow, she uses her yearbook as a shield. And Holmes gets the scholarship. WTF??? The holes in this plot are so numerous it's hard to even know where to begin listing them. First off, how does Watson snag the crossbow? It wasn't his project and we don't see him drag it home from school. We are shown all of the projects perched on a table in Mirren's house, graded, so she had obviously taken them home after school. Only a couple more days are left in the school year when Holmes completes her project. If she has been taught by Mirren all year long and is aware that Mirren dislikes her, why does she feel that that will change with her journal project? Mirren's Tingle is not a reasonable woman. Holmes is caught altering the grades, yet this is disregarded at the end and she gets the scholarship - even though she's NOT truly on top of her class. Not to mention the stolen test! The plot seems to contort itself at the will of the script. There are several truly irrelevant parts, such as Coughlin's regaling the bound Mirren with her Exorcist mockery. In all, this is just plain lazy filmmaking. I believe that Williamson sought to mimic the campiness of '80s teen flicks here, and this, like many of the worst of that genre, may go down in cheesy crappola history - a movie that won't be "hip" until 20 years later when sleepover bound 12 year olds rent it for a laugh. Williamson is insulting us by assuming that his cute-as-a-button teen cast will suffice for the lack of all other substance here. This movie, in conclusion, is about as exciting and suspenseful as watching a digital clock and seeing if 7:29 will follow 7:28. Avoid at all costs.
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Summary: Deserves negative stars
Review: This movie shows that Amazon should let us put negative stars. This movie does not even deserve one star. The only reason anyone would like this movie is because they want to ogle Katie Holmes or Barry Watson. This movie is supposed to be comedy, only it's not funny. It's supposed to be suspense, only you can see everything coming from a mile away. It's supposed to be scary, but I about fell asleep during it. The acting was deplorable, the plotline ridiculous, and the ending was so stupid and unbelievable. Do not waste your money on this movie.
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