The new teacher is really mean. She is so weird, she must be an extra terrestrial! But parents, as usual, haven’t got a clue (Dad even finds her very sexy). It is time for the pupils to organize resistance to her teaching methods. The Substitute is both an action film and a zany, 80s-style comedy (The Goonies, Gremlins). It plays out one of the golden rules of fantastic cinema: because they are willing to believe the unbelievable, children are often right, whereas their parents, relying on absolute certainties, believe they are having hallucinations (what with all the video games they play and the junk food they eat, this could be expected). The adults’ hard-headed foolishness is exposed in hilarious and deliciously sarcastic scenes.