Well, it was bound to happen eventually, right? Jason Bateman, after years of doing his thing in front of the camera with "Arrested Development," "Horrible Bosses," and "Identity Thief," is taking his career resurgence behind it. His directorial debut, "Bad Words," got picked up by Focus Features (for $7 million in Toronto in September), and should come out next year. And if all you ever wanted was to watch Bateman curse up a storm, hang out with a prostitute named Marzipan, piss off suburban parents, and befriend an ethnic child who is precocious and adorable, then you're in luck! Because "Bad Words" looks like a crazy mish-mash of all those things.
So the general gist is here that Bateman's character is a middle school dropout who never passed eighth grade, allowing him to compete in a national spelling bee with kids - who then, along with their parents, hate when Bateman ends up beating them. But then Bateman forms a friendship with a lonely competitor Chaitainya (played by Rohan Chand) and decides to teach him about life, meaning that all women have nipples and all men want to touch them. ... Helpful, I guess?
I don't know; this trailer seems all over the place to me, and as much as I enjoy Bateman's specific kind of half-smug, half-aloof snark, I can't see this movie being anything but grating. What do you guys think?
Bad Words by Teaser-Trailer.com
