I loved the TV show that was the inspiration for this spin-off. History will tell you that many UK TV shows that appeared on the big screen were lacklustre and had premises that didn't quite work.
Bad Education pretty much has the same thing really, a situation comedy in a school that goes "outside" on a field trip to Cornwall. Not all sitcoms have the ability/option to be stretched out into a 90 minute film.
The Bad Education Movie can use the premise of a field trip to go outside the classroom, which helped to make it a better film that it probably otherwise would have been had it been stuck in the confines of the classroom/school as the TV show was. So in a nutshell Alfie Wickers is the teacher described for the TV show as "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" - and he doesn't get any better here.
The first half of the film is your classic Bad Education format/formula. The second half it's fair to say probably isn't to a large extent. The whole saga of the Cornish Independence thing was quite dragging for a start, though it was interspersed with various things that wouldn't have looked out of place on the TV show ("Pube or Dare" being the obvious example here).
That being said, not a bad effort but you get the impression they ran out of ideas at the halfway point and had to pinch a few ideas from the TV show (by the time the movie came out the TV show had just finished its third and final series) to keep it going.
Bad Education pretty much has the same thing really, a situation comedy in a school that goes "outside" on a field trip to Cornwall. Not all sitcoms have the ability/option to be stretched out into a 90 minute film.
The Bad Education Movie can use the premise of a field trip to go outside the classroom, which helped to make it a better film that it probably otherwise would have been had it been stuck in the confines of the classroom/school as the TV show was. So in a nutshell Alfie Wickers is the teacher described for the TV show as "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" - and he doesn't get any better here.
The first half of the film is your classic Bad Education format/formula. The second half it's fair to say probably isn't to a large extent. The whole saga of the Cornish Independence thing was quite dragging for a start, though it was interspersed with various things that wouldn't have looked out of place on the TV show ("Pube or Dare" being the obvious example here).
That being said, not a bad effort but you get the impression they ran out of ideas at the halfway point and had to pinch a few ideas from the TV show (by the time the movie came out the TV show had just finished its third and final series) to keep it going.