Fist Fight

At the worst high school with the rottenest student body in America, a nice-but-wimpy teacher (Charlie Day) runs afoul of the faculty badass (Ice Cube), who challenges him to fight it out after school. Written by Van Robichaux, Evan Susser and Max Greenfield and boorishly directed by Richie Keen, the movie is coarse, crude and profane, but a guilty pleasure with many good laughs thanks to Day’s comic flair. But such movies can’t help themselves; they have to cross the line, and this one does it with a long F-bombing rap by Day’s 10-year-old daughter (Alexa Nisenson). This isn’t comedy, it’s child abuse, and Nisenson’s parents should be ashamed of themselves. Ice Cube shows himself once again as one of the most underrated actors in movies—but maybe that’s because he keeps making movies like this. J.L.