Product Description

This $24 million-grossing movie stars Seann William Scott as a self-help author who learns his mother (Susan Sarandon) is dating the gym teacher who tortured him as a child (Billy Bob Thornton). HD release will be forthcoming priced the same as BD. Bonuses: featurettes deleted scenes. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/CULTURE CLASH UPC: 794043106620 Manufacturer No: 1000031691

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3510 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2008-01-15
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 88 minutes

Amazon.com
Rhetorical question: What's the only thing that can keep a potentially bad movie's head above water? Good actors, or course. Sure, the Dodgeball-esque scenes of Billy Bob Thornton viciously pegging second-graders with a basketball are chuckle-inducing (It appeals to the America's Funniest Home Videos lover in all of us), but the movie didn't quite live up to the promising plot. John Farley (Seann William Scott) plays a bestselling self-help author who was once a portly underachiever often bullied and terrorized by his militant (and potentially lawsuit-causing) gym teacher, Mr. Woodcock (Thornton). When he's invited to receive his Nebraska hometown's most coveted award, the corn cob key, he decides to pay his mother (Susan Sarandon) a visit. With horror, he discovers that she's planning on getting married to the sinister Mr. Woodcock. And, of course, the rest of the movie shows John's unraveling as he tries with all his might (and "corny" predictability) to stop that from happening. The movie provides some good laughs, but it's definitely on the B-list for the likes of these hilarious starring actors. --Jordan Thompson

Customer Reviews

"Your mom's got a little bit of Woodcock in her!"
This movie was much funner than I thought it would be. "Mr. Woodcock" stars Billy Bob Thornton as a sadistic gym teacher who's engaged to a woman named Beverly (Susan Sarandon). As it so happens, Beverly is the mother of John (Seann William Scott), one of Mr. Woodcock's former students who's never quite recovered from his traumatic P.E. experiences. When John returns to his Nebraska hometown to visit his mother, he is horrified to discover that Mr. Woodcock is going to be his stepfather. Mr. Woodcock isn't a big fan of John's, either, and while he tries to be nice to the kid in front of his mother, he has no problem verbally abusing (and literally beating the crap out of) John whenever Beverly's not around.

There isn't much more to the plot than what I've already described, and yes, this movie is also very predictable. However, it also contains some brilliant stupid humor. Thornton as perfect as the Gym Teacher from Hell, and he has great on-screen chemistry with both Scott and Sarandon. If you're looking for a few cheap laughs, this is definitely the film for you.

worth watching
Not quite a perfect 5 star movie, because Billy Bob Thorton just wasn't as funny as he could have been. I was actually laughing quite hard at certain parts, such as the entire town thinking Billy Bob was some kind of perfect man, but the son of the mother Billy Bob was dating totally disagreed. This led to a funny segment afterwards.

In fact, the storyline for the most part was about Billy Bob dating a mother, and the son of the mother constantly getting into fights with Billy Bob's character. This was because Billy Bob's character was a gym teacher that had the son as a student many years before, and as a gym teacher, he used to torment the heck out of the kids.

Another memorable part was when the son decided he finally had enough of being treated like garbage by Billy's character, and challenged him to a wrestling match. In the end, the best part of the movie was obviously the little amount of harsh treatment from Billy Bob we got to see.

Billy Bob Thorton wasn't quite as ignorant/funny in this film as he was in that Santa Claus movie he did a few years back, but he was still pretty good here. And this movie is nothing like that rocket building movie he did, which was a serious film. A good way to pass the time.

Pretty dag gone funny
This is a pretty decent flick, most of the funny parts were on the previews but it is a great story, and presented very well.