Gym Teacher – The Movie (2008/Telefilm/Sony DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: D Telefilm: D
Made for
Nickelodeon and pushing iCarly star
Nathan Cress, the inanely entitled Gym
Teacher – The Movie (2008) is a nearly obnoxious comedy about the title
character (a wasted Christopher Meloni) who is a former athlete who fell from
grace and would rather forget about the past.
Now juggling shallow students and like situations, he is being dragged
into a national teacher’s fitness contest.
That all
could have made for an interesting TV movie back in the 1970s, but this is
miles away from The White Shadow and
with the formula phony behavior of the teens here (meeting the safe Nickelodeon
criteria), 94 minutes is a very, very long time. Even Amy Sedaris and David Alan Greer could
not break the monotony.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image was likely shot in HD and has motion
blur and poor color from beginning to end.
The Dolby Digital sound is also on the weak side with an odd imbalance
in the mix including compression. Extras
include bloopers, deleted scenes, a lame Music Video, two featurettes and odd
Bruce Jenner gag bit that is never funny.
- Nicholas Sheffo
