Very disappointed :(

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

LouAnne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer) is a marine getting a divorce from her abusive husband. Her friend Hal Griffith (George Dzundza) gets her a job at his high school. She's shocked to find her class full of problem kids bused in from the poor part of the city. Principal Grandey is uncaring and insists on people knock on his door. Emilio Ramírez is the most problematic student. Callie Roberts is the smart one. LouAnne tries to help Raúl Sanchero as well as her other students. She uses karate, Bob Dylan, rewards and poetry to get to her kids.This is another one of those cliché white savior teacher genre. I don't have any complaints about Pfeiffer or any of the kids' acting. I really like Renoly Santiago and Bruklin Harris. The main problem is the simplistic ideas being presented. The story isn't the most compelling. I am glad that LouAnne doesn't fall in love with another teacher. Her friendship with Hal is quite refreshing. It's too bad that the movie trots out all the old standards without adding anything new.

Luckily for this film the minimum score is 1. I am renowned by my friends, family and colleagues for the amount of films I have seen and the knowledge I have on them. Over the years the amount has become so large that i've long since given up on picking a "best film i've ever seen". However about a year ago I watched this film and my opinion on it has not changed and its rating on my list of films has remained exactly the same. It is by far the worst film I have ever seen. It is bad. It terrifyingly, apocalyptically bad. At least Plan 9 or The Room had a turn around point where they began to be so bad that they could be made fun of and you could laugh at them. This film lacks the turn around point. It just grabs as many "tear jerking moments" it can get its hands on, sticks them in a blender, leaves the lid off and lets the resulting travesty f*** up the decor of the entire room. It's been a year since I have seen this film and I am still struggling to get past this pitiful excuse for a film. Every time I think of it I feel like I am going to shout at someone and that I will soon be put in anger therapy as a result. In conclusion, I recommend that you never see this film so that you don't alter, or altogether ruin/obliterate any love for films that you may have. I know that I didn't mention what I hated about the film so much and that's just the thing. If someone handed me the only existing copy on a computer and to edit/delete what i thought was stupid in the film, I would probably just watch it and then attach a nuke to the computer just to make sure that this abomination and anything within a 10-mile-radius of it never sees the light of day again.

This film could not have been any worse if they tried. We have seen these types of films before when a teacher or principle goes into a school that is filled with tough kids and by the end they all love the teacher. Dangerous Minds may be based on a true story but it is not an original idea and certainly not worthy of being made into a movie. OK so a teacher by the name of Louanne Johnson played by Michelle Pfeiffer inspires kids to learn and love poetry by having them listen to Bob Dylan songs. Big deal. Think of all the great teachers out there that reached trouble kids by some creative means. What about their story's? Aside from that Michelle Pfeiffer is mis-cast as some ex-Marine. She does not pull off the part and is less than convincing. The film makers also are deceptive in their telling the story of Louanne Johnson. She never used Bob Dlyan songs to teach her class but rather rap music. I guess the film makers felt rap might offend the audience. Do a little research on this teacher and see for yourself.A very bad film...

I don't care if this type of movie has been done "a million times" I understand it is from a real life experience. It showcases an exceptional teacher doing the MOST difficult task - actually teaching our youth. What makes it even more interesting is that the young students are just short of being thrown away by the very people who excepted the responsibility of guiding them. I would be happy to watch one a day if they were all based on real teachers doing their job enthusiastically and when necessary beating the "powers that be" back with a stick! It should warm the hearts of parents to know that there really are teachers like that out there. Not to mention serving as a wake up call to current teachers, who have forgotten why they trained for this profession, to get back in the game.I'd say, tried and true, it was tried and it is so true!