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Mr Woodcock stars Sean William Scott as John Farley, a self-help author who returns to his hometown only to discover that his mother (Susan Sarandon) has fallen in love with his old high school nemesis, Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton) - the gruff, no-nonsense gym teacher who had put him through years of mental and physical humiliation. Determined to prevent history from repeating itself, John sets out to stop his mother from marrying the man who had made life miserable for him and his classmates.
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Format:DVD
I was really put off buying this with all the reviews saying how bad it was, but i bought it and watched it and can honestly say its not that bad. I thought it was okay, some funny moments and Seann William Scott and Billy Bob Thornton are very funny together. I would say its worth a watch.
Yes, Gym Class in North America Could Be as Brutal and Humiliating As So Notoriously So in U.K. Schools!
29 Mar 2012
Format:DVD
The thorough review (for Amazon`s U.S. WWW site) by Lawrence Berbabo of "Mr. Woodcock" gives a very good idea of what the movie is about, so I shall not cover the ground anew that he traverses so well. I only would take issue with his low rating of it. I found the film amusing and well conceived, the acting excellent. Anyway, I am one of those fans who can find almost no wrong at all with whatever Billy Bob Thornton (as the stern gym coach) does for the siver screen. He, in the title role, and the entire cast make this tale of junior high physical education lived and relived very lively. Probably, in real life, the only teachers, as a group, who are as dreadful as gym teachers are math teachers; that applies, dismally, at the college and university level, as well. Teachers of both subject areas rated really, really low in my memories (and in those of a lot of other folks whom I know) of junior high school. (I was luckier in senior high school, where the math teachers were equally abysmal but where the gym teachers were quite decent men and instructors, but the experience of mathematics and physical education hit new lows, if anything, in my university years!)
Having lived too sheltered and pampered a life to have experienced anything so soul-trying and ruggedly harsh as military "boot camp" and the drill sargents or petty officers who train the troops thereat, John Farley (as Sean William Scott so comically plays the role) conceives, instead, of his past gym teacher as a cruel tyrant who has been the Great Personal Nemesis in his life and nightmares, which makes John`s horror on discovering that his widowed mother`s affection for Mr. Woodcock, as her exceedingly virile lover, will end in Woodcock becoming John`s step-father, a prospect that appalls the son.
Anyway, Mr. Woodcock gets back, from John Farley, some of what he deserves for what he had done to, ahem! so many athletically challenged pupils, such as John himself, in Woodcock`s highly disciplined phys. ed. classes. John, a successful writer of sappy motivational self-help books, whose mother (acted by Susan Sarandon) is romantically involved with Woodcock, has a capital opportunity to grow up (at last!), the hard way. The film really is worth a video rental, at least, really and truly! I would say that it`s worth more than that, too, so feel assured that it is worth purchasing.
And, yeah, I would toss any of John`s books of utter therapeutic pyschobabble into the fire, too, as Woodcock does to one of them at the end of the comedy!
Having lived too sheltered and pampered a life to have experienced anything so soul-trying and ruggedly harsh as military "boot camp" and the drill sargents or petty officers who train the troops thereat, John Farley (as Sean William Scott so comically plays the role) conceives, instead, of his past gym teacher as a cruel tyrant who has been the Great Personal Nemesis in his life and nightmares, which makes John`s horror on discovering that his widowed mother`s affection for Mr. Woodcock, as her exceedingly virile lover, will end in Woodcock becoming John`s step-father, a prospect that appalls the son.
Anyway, Mr. Woodcock gets back, from John Farley, some of what he deserves for what he had done to, ahem! so many athletically challenged pupils, such as John himself, in Woodcock`s highly disciplined phys. ed. classes. John, a successful writer of sappy motivational self-help books, whose mother (acted by Susan Sarandon) is romantically involved with Woodcock, has a capital opportunity to grow up (at last!), the hard way. The film really is worth a video rental, at least, really and truly! I would say that it`s worth more than that, too, so feel assured that it is worth purchasing.
And, yeah, I would toss any of John`s books of utter therapeutic pyschobabble into the fire, too, as Woodcock does to one of them at the end of the comedy!
Format:Blu-ray
This movie is one of those ones that you put on with a groups of friends and share a few laughs. Some of these laughs are at the jokes while some are just at the movie it's self. Its definatly not a movie for the young kids or those people who are shall we say way over the hill ;) But for those inbetween this movie is not a bad laugh and i have found it best to be enjoyed with friends never seems as funny by yourself. As for the acting its about what you would expect for this type of movie. None of the acting is what i would call amazing but the ineraction between Billy Bob Thornton and Seann William Scott is at times extreamly entertaining!
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Made i laugh alot
A really funny film especially
when there is so much rubbish out there
get a few beers and have a fun night in
when there is so much rubbish out there
get a few beers and have a fun night in
Published 14 months ago by S. WATKINS
the heaviest sledgehammer in existence
Mr. Woodcock was a surprise for me.but a pleasant one.i found it very
funny.in fact,riotously so,at times. Read more
funny.in fact,riotously so,at times. Read more
Published on 6 Mar 2010 by falcon
Funny & realistic
After reading the mixed reviews I thought I had made the wrong choice in renting the film. But I really enjoyed it. Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2008 by M. Kidd
it's okay
I have some things to say about this movie when i saw it it was funny and when i saw it for the second time the humour was not that funny,so what i am saying is the humour in this... Read more
Published on 18 Aug 2008 by zac pope
Great cast but didn't deliver
I had great expectaions for this film. Billy Bob Thorton and Sean William Scott. I really thought hey this film should be a gas. However, the laughs just were not delivered. Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2008 by J. Gagnon
TERRIBLE - NOT EVEN WORTH A RENT
Sat through half of this last night, got bored and walked off.
You wait for it to get funny but it just doesn't.
Take my advice - don't.
You wait for it to get funny but it just doesn't.
Take my advice - don't.
Published on 6 Feb 2008 by C. FOX
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