Desirable Teacher

Desirable Teacher (Pierino contro tutti, 1981) is an Italian comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Marino Girolami directs Alvaro Vitali as Pierino, the gap-toothed troublemaker who became a cult figure of low-budget Italian cinema.

Pierino is the oldest kid in class, held back so many times he runs the place. His teachers are a parade of dim-witted fools, and he torments every one of them with pranks, crude jokes and ruined lessons. Outside school he's no better, driving his sister Sabrina and his parents up the wall. There's barely a plot here — just a string of sketches, slapstick and bawdy gags straight out of the early-'80s commedia sexy all'italiana.

This is unpretentious stuff made for its own crowd: coarse humor, zero subtlety, no pretense of depth. Fans of vintage Vitali farces will lap it up; everyone else probably won't. Stream Desirable Teacher (1981) online on iFILM.