http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/14/MR.-WOODCOCK.aspx Oh, sure, you’ll laugh out loud watching MR. WOODCOCK.  You will snicker, you will smile, you will groan.  But you won’t feel good about it.  MR. WOODCOCK is a guilty pleasure, along the lines of that great intellectual series of AMERICAN PIE films.  Need I say more? Jasper Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton) is every overweight kid’s nightmare of a gym teacher, a sadist who gets pleasure in humiliating his charges.  How does he check whether the students are wearing cups?  He hits them in the crotch with a bat.  How does he stop a kid with asthma from wheezing.  He orders him to do laps. John Farley (Seann William Scott, appropriately Stifler from the aforementioned PIE series) was a fat, ungainly child who suffered Woodcock’s abuse.  But Stifler uh, Farley became a successful adult anyway, author of a best-selling self-help book, Letting Go: Getting Past Your Past and a highly sought-after lecturer. He’s out on a book tour when he hears his home town wants to honor him with its rarely-awarded Corn Cob Key at the annual Cornival.  So he cancels his engagements to return home in some ways like a Thomas Wolfe hero.  He wants to surprise his widowed mother, Beverly (Susan Sarandon), but the surprise is on him.  You’ll never guess who she’s dating.  If per chance you really can’t guess, then perhaps this film may be too much for you.  But for the rest of us, of course it’s MR. WOODCOCK. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/14/MR.-WOODCOCK.aspx 77 60 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/14/MR.-WOODCOCK.aspx#1760 looks good cant wait to see it:) tinkluvspan http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/14/MR.-WOODCOCK.aspx#1760 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:41:42 GMT http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/14/MR.-WOODCOCK.aspx#2154 billy bob is a good actor. so we know we will get a good show with him in it. WAVELYN http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/14/MR.-WOODCOCK.aspx#2154 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:00:26 GMT http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/14/MR.-WOODCOCK.aspx#2155 this sounds pretty good brokun1 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/14/MR.-WOODCOCK.aspx#2155 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:13:18 GMT