Mr. Woodcock (2007)

Comedy

1 hr. 27 min.

"Woodcock." Get it? Billy Bob Thornton's career takes a blow to those balls in the poster as he plays a gym teacher that's dating Stiffler's mom. Stiffler doesn't like it one bit.

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, thematic material, language and a mild drug reference

Directed by: Craig Gillespie

Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Seann William Scott, Susan Sarandon, Kurt Fuller, Amy Poehler

Theatrical Release Date: 9/14/2007

Release Type: Wide

U.S. Box Office: $25,769,067

Video/DVD Release Date: 1/15/2008

Distributor: New Line Cinema

Country: USA

Language: English

Offsite: IMDB | Official Site

CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert	7	...uneasy...
Chicago Tribune Jessica Reaves	5	...a marginally promising -- but ultimately unfunny -- comedy.
E! Matt Stevens	4	...[we] would rather suffer wedgies and pushups than suit up for this one.
filmcritic.com Chris Cabin	3	...at once both completely aimless and without the slightest sense of fun.
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh	4	...as disjointed as you'd expect from a film that was reworked extensively by a second director.
Reel Jim Hemphill	5	...a comedy with a premise to which anyone who has been tormented by a teacher can relate...
Slant Magazine Nick Schager	3	...knows lots of verbs that mean "having sex" but screws up virtually all opportunities for humor, including the promising yet thoroughly squandered crazy-lady pairing-up of Amy Poehler and Tyra Banks.
Entertainment Weekly Marc Bernardin	6	Uninspired, sure, but sporadically, spasmodically funny.
New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz	5	It's The Great Santini remade as a sitcom.
Los Angeles Times John Anderson	5	...has its moments...
LA Weekly Robert Wilonsky	4	...a strictly flaccid family affair. Bet you saw that coming too.
Village Voice Robert Wilonsky	4	...a strictly flaccid family affair. Bet you saw that coming too.
Onion AV Club Scott Tobias	4	...cobbles together whatever shopworn comic ideas spring to mind.
Maxim Pete Hammond	5	There are some funny bits, but you only end up wishing the film had a few more gems like this and not a lot of dumb dialogue trying to stretch the one-joke concept into a feature-length comedy. In fact, the film's poster showing Woodcock holding two strategically placed basketballs is funnier than anything in the actual movie!
Premiere Aaron Hillis	3	...is no Superbad, but in fact, Super Incredibly Bad.
Christian Science Monitor Robert Newton	5	Maybe the writers dwelled on some trite self-help mantra to delude themselves into thinking that the giggles that the title inspires would carry for 90 minutes.

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	4.5
AVERAGE USER RATING (0 ratings)	-