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Mr. Woodcock
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Billy Bob
Thornton, Seann William Scott, Susan Sarandon |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
New Line Cinema |
| Web Site: |
www.woodcockmovie.com |
| Kiddie Movie: |
It's not good for
them. |
| Date Movie: |
It's not good for
them either. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
Lot's of talk and
a bouncing bed, but creepy. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Some son vs.
future Dad-In-Law fighting. |
| Action: |
Nah. |
| Laughs: |
Three good ones. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
When John goes
with Jasper to meet Jasper's dad. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
Nothin' |
| Directed By: |
Craig Gillespie |
| Produced By: |
Bob Cooper, David
Dobkin |
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Mr. Woodcock
A Movie Review |
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Thank God I won’t have to see the trailer for this movie
anymore. The movie is "Mr. Woodcock," and I don’t know when
I saw the first trailer, though it must have been almost a
year ago, because at first this movie was set to be released
in January, some eight months ago. I did, originally, find
the trailer kinda funny, but with the movie getting bumped,
and bumped, and bumped, and with the trailer not changing,
any potential for this movie went away. The thing that bugs
me, though, is that could have been a funny and/or cute
movie.
Here’s the premise.
As a youngin’ John Farley (Seann William Scott) was
constantly humiliated by Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton).
Actually, Mr. Woodcock humiliated pretty much every kid
lacking any athletic ability. But as he grew older John
wrote a self-help book and is on the verge of greatness,
especially with a potential Oprah booking. But John’s dad is
dead, and mom, Beverly (Susan Sarandon), is looking for some lovin’, and on a trip back home John finds out that mom is
getting that lovin’ from none other than Mr. Woodcock.
Hating Mr. Woodcock, John enlists the help of Nedderman
(Ethan Suplee from "My Name is Earl" fame) to break up the
relationship.
And so John and Nedderman try to dig up dirt on Jasper
(that’s Mr. Woodcock), and of course, all of their digging
turns up information that isn’t really correct.
God, why am I even wasting time on the premise of the
movie, especially when those making the movie didn’t see the
simple equation of making this into a cute, funny film,
instead of trying to make it a "Bad Santa" meets, um, I
don’t know, a movie about how you want to break up the
relationship your mom is supposed to have.
Like I said, the movie had some funny moments and a lot
of potential to be a nice comedy. When John met Jasper’s dad
it was funny. When John was trying to get Jasper back to
Beverly during the parade it was funny. When John and Maggie
(Amy Pohler) were arguing during "The Tyra Banks Show" it
was funny. But when the movie made fun of the self-help
groupies it wasn’t funny. When everyone at the pizza joint
commented about Mr. Woodcock boinking Beverly it wasn’t
funny. When Nedderman was talking about shoving his face
between Beverly’s tits (and he said "tits") it wasn’t funny.
And when John finally beat Mr. Woodcock during a
corncob-eating contest, that wasn’t funny.
I guess, in the end, if they had actually treated this
movie like something in real life rather than pushing the
dorky "trying to be funny" motif, I probably would have
enjoyed this movie, but for the most part the jokes fell
flat. It was only when the characters felt almost like real
people that I enjoyed it.
I would have liked to give this movie a better rating,
but it’s only 1 ½ stars out of 5. Too much potential is lost
by actually not living in a real world.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!!
L8R!!! |
