Christina Reviews *Dangerous Minds*

         I’ll admit, I went through my "teacher movie" phase.  I watched Freedom Writers, and I liked it.  Yeah, it was trite, but it had heart to it.  I can be a sucker for cheap melodrama.  I decided to watch Dangerous Minds since I had never seen it before, and I was curious.

        Let’s just say I needn’t have bothered.

       While the teacher in Freedom Writers encourages kids to learn by opening up their minds, the teacher in Dangerous Minds encourages them to learn by resorting to bribery.

       Yep, that’s right.  Good, old-fashioned bribery.  Works every time.

        Oh yeah, and she encourages them to read poetry by introducing them to Bob Dylan.  Apparently Bob Dylan is the Justin Bieber of the early 90's. 

       I don’t think there’s much more to say about this movie.  Except this.  It’s pretty sad when a main character dies and you feel nothing.  That just goes to show how divorced I was from the story by the time it ended.