{"id":418204,"date":"2022-03-17T09:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T06:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-prank-review-rita-moreno-in-a-teacher-from-hell-comedy\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T09:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T06:42:50","slug":"watch-the-prank-review-rita-moreno-in-a-teacher-from-hell-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-prank-review-rita-moreno-in-a-teacher-from-hell-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The Prank&#8217; Review: Rita Moreno in a Teacher-From-Hell Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af6de672dfb3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af6de672dfb3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-prank-review-rita-moreno-in-a-teacher-from-hell-comedy\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Prank_Review_Rita_Moreno_in_a_Teacher-From-Hell_Comedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Prank&#8217; Review: Rita Moreno in a Teacher-From-Hell Comedy&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-prank-review-rita-moreno-in-a-teacher-from-hell-comedy\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Prank_Review_Rita_Moreno_in_a_Teacher-From-Hell_Comedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Prank&#8217; Review: Rita Moreno in a Teacher-From-Hell Comedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-prank-review-rita-moreno-in-a-teacher-from-hell-comedy\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-prank-review-rita-moreno-in-a-teacher-from-hell-comedy\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Prank_Review_Rita_Moreno_in_a_Teacher-From-Hell_Comedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Prank&#8217; Review: Rita Moreno in a Teacher-From-Hell Comedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Prank_Review_Rita_Moreno_in_a_Teacher-From-Hell_Comedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Prank&#8217; Review: Rita Moreno in a Teacher-From-Hell Comedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        \u201cThe Prank\u201d is no big whoop, but for a good stretch it\u2019s a tartly written, engagingly nasty little comedy of high-school vengeance. It\u2019s set during the senior year of Ben (Connor Kalopsis), the kind of obsessive-compulsive overachiever who prints out several backup copies of his homework assignments, and Tanner (Ramona Young), a hacker, high on energy drinks, who\u2019s his equally brainy but less responsible best friend. These two exist in their own unpopular cloistered geek space. But then fate throws a curveball at the striving-to-be-perfect Ben.<\/p>\n<p>His AP physics class is run by the most infamous teacher at West Greenview High: a veteran instructor named Mrs. Wheeler \u2014 played, in a performance of must-see deviousness and passive-aggressive glee, by Rita Moreno. Mrs. Wheeler, with great pride, presents herself as the ultimate stern taskmaster, a kind of knowingly formidable teacher-as-drill-sergeant. She\u2019s not just explaining the intricacies of physics (which she\u2019s actually quite good at); she\u2019s \u201ctraining young minds\u201d to be ready for everything the world will throw at them. And so she regards her students with a twinkle of punitive rigor that\u2019s borderline sadistic. (She also wears black gloves she never takes off, suggesting there may be weirder depths to her fanaticism than we can see.)<\/p>\n<p>Moreno, in a silver bob of a wig (the character is explicitly presented as wearing one), her eyes agleam, her mouth a fixed smirk, her voice pouring forth with a kind of old-school mellifluous California clarity that\u2019s equal parts self-satisfaction and misanthropic superiority, comes on like she\u2019s warming up to star in \u201cThe Pauline Kael Story.\u201d She makes Mrs. Wheeler a delectable imp of sunny contempt. We see why everyone hates her, from the students she terrifies to the principal (Keith David) whose parking spot she ritually steals. Yet we can also see that Mrs. Wheeler is a brilliant woman who practices teaching as a form of tough love. For a while, we give her the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Until, that is, she goes a notch too far. When it comes to light that a student cheated on a test, she announces that she\u2019s going to give all the students a failing grade unless the cheater\u2019s identity is revealed. She\u2019s asking them to rat the cheater out, and she\u2019s punishing any innocent, hard-working kid who won\u2019t go along or who simply doesn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not a fair deal. What\u2019s worse, it has the potential to mess with Ben\u2019s scholarship plans, which is why he\u2019s beyond distraught. So Tanner, almost basking in the injustice of it all, comes up with a plan to give Mrs. Wheeler the karmic payback she\u2019s been courting. Several years before, a dissolute student named Wayne went missing; the presumption is that he was an addict who died in a ditch somewhere. Tanner devises a plan to blast out a theory, complete with deepfake videos and Photoshopped <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>-media hooks designed to go viral, that Mrs. Wheeler is the person who murdered him. The idea is to create a social-media storm that makes her writhe in agony, at least until the storm passes over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Prank\u201d was directed by Maureen Bharoocha, from a broadly witty <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> by Rebecca Flinn-White and Zak White, and in its borderline cartoon way it has a satirical savvy about how currents of misinformation are spread that recalls the good parts of \u201cDon\u2019t Look Up.\u201d Mrs. Wheeler tries to fight off the rumors by ignoring them, as if the very idea of this scandal were beneath her. There are juicy scenes set in the office of the principal, who she treats with withering disdain \u2014 something destined to come back at her, with that wily actor Keith David relishing every line. By the time the police haul off Mrs. Wheeler in handcuffs, we think we know just where the movie is headed: into the realm of moralistic media burlesque, complete with lessons about how the Internet has an amoral life of its own, and about how taking the law into your own hands \u2014 especially if you happen to be a precocious high-school kid \u2014 is destined to blow up in your face.<\/p>\n<p>We also suspect that Mrs. Wheeler will be revealed to be a very different person than we thought. And when Ben goes over to her comfy suburban castle of a home and discovers a more relaxed version of her \u2014 she\u2019s nice! with no black gloves! \u2014 that\u2019s just what happens. But not in the way we expected. \u201cThe Prank\u201d starts off as a fresh, funny riff on high-school society in the age of toxic cynicism: the negotiations between Tanner and the cafeteria lady over how many chicken s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s she\u2019s going to get, the film\u2019s understanding of \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> cycle of high school.\u201d But then the movie takes a turn into\u2026let\u2019s just say, <em>the darkness<\/em>. And when it does, it leaves any true connection to the real world behind. At that point I began to tune out. And yet! By all means see \u201cThe Prank\u201d for Rita Moreno, who proves, after years of TV work and the \u201cWest Side Story\u201d remake, that there\u2019s a place for her in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> you weren\u2019t expecting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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