it bad santa meet any will ferrell sport movie . which mean it billy bob thornton in a comedy that really suck . in mr. woodcock and thornton be psychopathic phys ed coach and mr. woodcock and who persecute his schoolboy charge like a drill instructor and hurling insult and basketball at them and step on them and make them do lap until they collapse you know and like your old phys ed coach from school . my recollection of the name woodcock be from butch cassidy and the sundance kid ( 1969 ) paul newman and try to convince the union pacific railroad guy to open the train door so the gang would not have to use explosive and flippantly pronounce the name with that edge of dirtiness and hey and woodcock . you can not want to get blow up again . there be more humor in that one line from butch cassidy than there be in all 87 minute of this quarter brain comedy . a nerd who be bully by mr. woodcock and grow up to be insufferable seann william scott and who leave his small town and return a a successful author and have channel all his angst and repression into self help book . to his horror and he discover that his mother be date mr. woodcock . susan sarandon play scott airhead boiler mother and sleepwalk through the role while tim robbins wasn not look . attempt hilarity ensues . this be craig gillespie second directorial effort . it show . this be writer michael carnes and josh gilbert first write effort . we can tell . amy poehler nearly steal the show . it wasn not that hard to do . i swear if seann william scott make that stupid face again and i be go to scream . oh and that just his face .