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“Fist Fight”, a Warner Bros. release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “language throughout, sexual content/nudity and drug material”.

Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes.

Fist Fight may be all about feuding faculty members, but the jokes are downright sophomoric… and sparse. From its trailers and marketing, “Fist Fight” appears to be about a brawl between two teachers who agree to fight one another after class on the last day of school. This is without a doubt incredibly stupid, mindless and barely any comedic timing but on that note, it’s very amusing.

Ultimately, though, it’s no laugh-filled knockout.

Strickland and Campbell teach at a hellhole of a high school where all the students are cartoonishly terrible, tormenting the teachers, refusing to learn and gleefully destroying school property at will. (Being married to a public school teacher, the look on his face and those words muttered under his breath are all too familiar.) It’s the last day of school, and Campbell is just looking to make it to the end of the school year. He gave me my moment and I stood back and.

“Fist Fight” follows high school English teacher Andy Campbell, played by Charlie Day, as he tries to navigate budget cuts, bad administration and senior pranks on the last day of school. That is, of course, what happens, however. After a particularly rough incident involving a fire axe and a desk, Campbell somewhat inadvertently throws Strickland under the bus, costing him his job. Soon #teacherfight is trending among the student body, and everybody’s confidently declaring that Mr. Campbell will be dead by sundown.

Will they fight? Given the title, that’s a safe bet. Characters even use the hashtag #TeacherFight repeatedly.

With “Fist Fight” hitting theaters on February 17, the Niner Times got to sit down with three of the stars of the film, Charlie Day, Tracy Morgan and Jillian Bell to talk about the work behind the film and some insight into their own careers coming into the film. More originality like this, as opposed to crass easy humor, would’ve made the movie much better. Day, in particular, pours all the comedic energy you’d expect into fretfully hyping the conflict.

All three of you are artists who primarily work in comedy.

Cube took it a step further, relating even the themes of the movie to what’s going on in the country. He’s especially fun in a montage of tall tales told by folks about Ron as time to the fight grows closer. Jillian Bell is a guidance counselor work pal of Campbell’s whose only trait and shtick is that she wishes to sleep with students (she wants their “teenis”, as she explains in her constantly professed desire to rape), while Christina Hendricks is even less explicable in her presence exclusively to brandish a butterfly knife and mime her interest in cutting Campbell for being, as she believes, a pervert. The only recourse, Strickland challenges Campbell to a fist fight after school. Neither are they coming for the strong supporting cast (in addition to Morgan, there are Dennis Haysbert, Kumail Nanjiani from “Silicon Valley”, Christina Hendricks from “Mad Men” and Jillian Bell from “Workaholics”).

The fantastic performances from the cast is Fist Fight’s biggest strength. But, if you’re looking for some immediate silly entertainment, it sure beats detention.