Entropy is increasing, the physicists say. Eventually the universe will run down. Nothing will happen since the energy level will be uniformly constant throughout the universe. For a preview of what life will then be like watch this movie.Bob Gunton and Rosemary DeWitt are fun to watch. The rest of the cast might as well have been represented by cardboard cutouts.Multiple plot lines start and then are left hanging.One character is searching for Sasquatch; a furry man-like creature is seen several times, but then . . . nothing.Someone accuses Charlie of not lifting the toilet seat. This is not funny, but you expect it to pay off later, but then . . . nothing.Charlie is suspected of being gay, though he isn't, and this seems possibly a set up for Charlie's getting tenure based on his mistakenly being thought gay, but then . . . nothing. Someone is selling a drug to cure E.D. A small truckload of the stuff is delivered to an old folks home. You expect something raunchy and hilarious. The only thing that happens is some of the old timers fight over the boxes. Previously I thought of movies as "good" or "bad". Tenure requires a new category. This is a "nothing" movie.

I am not going to bash this movie as many have done... I saw the movie, and was think I set the bar too high. Without giving away too much of the movie, I found that the acting was good, the story was different from a "bottled, formulaic, Animal House-ish" rewrite college comedy.It was smart, clever, and told a good tale, there was only a small amount of unanswered questions I had in my mind when it ended... I stared at the screen and said... "OK...it wasn't awful, it was .... well OK"The bottom line is, I am not going to say it was a horrible movie, because it was not... I found that I was entertained by the movie, and they did not try to market it as a blockbuster.. A decent film, and not too far removed from what it was about.. trying to get tenure at a College.

The lonely professor Charlie Thurber (Luke Wilson) is seeking to grant tenure in the Grey College. Charlie is loved by his students but has not published any article for a long time. His best friend is the anthropologist Jay Hadley (David Koechner) that researches evidences of the existence of the Sasquatch and his father was interned by his sister in an expensive rest home. When the Dean Leakey (William Bogert) hires the Yale's English Professor Elaine Grasso (Gretchen Mol), Charlie is threatened by the competition for tenure and Jay declares Elaine as their enemy and sabotages her in school. Charlie tries to publish a work but has difficulties. "Tenure" is an unfunny comedy with pathetic lead characters: Charlie is a complete imbecile, but a good teacher and Jay is an unscrupulous crackers. Their attitudes against the lovely Elaine are stupid, unethical and absolutely inadequate for college professors and after 89 minutes running time, I have not laughed any time. I found stranger how a viewer could "love" this flick and I discover that there are many fake reviews in IMDb of people with only one review promoting this flick to lure the readers. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Um Professor em Apuros" ("A Teacher in Trouble")

This movie is plain stupid. I don't know if you can call this a "comedy" if there's not a single funny thing in it.It's more like a tragedy. Jokes are, without exception, awful. Whoever wrote this dross is a hopeless case.Nothing makes any sense, characters go squarely against their own stated interests for absolutely no reason - all the time. Characters do completely unreasonable things for no reason other to make the storyline amusing, but it backfires every single time.It's really a mystery how a movie written so badly can be made. I mean, have these actors and producers even read the script before making the decision to participate in it? I find it hard to believe that an educated, intelligent person could find this script good enough.Once you see the movie, it will be VERY obvious that the positive reviews on IMDb were written exclusively by people associated with this hopeless movie. "Fantastic!!!", says one of them. Yeah, right. Fantastically awful.