i be actually look forward to see this movie because i have a step father who i often feud with . so naturally i be hop this would cheer me up and get me to laugh . but boy do this movie depress me and boy do it make me angry . first let me go over what i do like about this film before i trash it . it have what could have be a really good and funny plot . our lead character discovers that the evil gym teacher that torment him in middle school be now go to marry his mother . basically think of that teacher from high school or middle school who hat your gut . you do not do anything he or she just hat you and make it clear . now imagine if that teacher go to be your new stepfather or stepmother . what do you do . this sound hysterical and in the films defense there be a few funny moment . sadly however those funny moment be all give away in the trailer . this would be the first problem i have with this film . all the part that come to mind a be the highlight be already spoil and what leave be okay but not great . however let talk about the story a little more . a i say before our star use to be stick with an evil gym teacher who be out to make his life a living hell . now he all grow up and have use his experience with mr. woodcock to write a self help book . this book become a best seller and he now teach people how to let go of there past . thing be go well until his past come back to hunt him . now that also could of bin funny . watch a mans message of let go of the past get challenge by the bad thing that happen to him long ago . sadly it do not play out well and i will explain later . this woodcock fellow dose not seem to regret any of the mean thing he have do to him . in fact he very mean to everyone and everything . they make him such a jerk to the point you can not bring your self to like his character . the mom on the other hand seem really nice but one cant help but wonder what be she think and be she that desperate . the guy make very rude and mean spirited comment to her son and even go far to make sex comment about his mother . he treat the people in the town like dirt and everything that come out of his moth be negativity and insult . some time his abuse get physical . so i be start to think the story be about an evil step father who the son have to save his mother from marry . after all for some reason he and u the viewer can only see what a bad guy woodcock really be . but no . by the end of the movie the son must learn to respect woodcock and his very abusive way . so accord to the movie woman be good off pretend there abusive spouse be a good guy in spite of the fact he treat the world like dirt . for all woman can not be happy unless they have a man and even if he be a creep . what kind of message be that to send out . okay and dose our hero at least manage to persevere his message he have become popular selling . no and by the end he turn back on all of that and decide to take after his mom . give into stock home syndrome and convinces himself that woodcock be a good guy . so he find himself apologize to an unapologetic abusive jerk . he even declare that all the abuse be good for him . what kind of message be they try to send out . well do woodcock learn any lesson and become sorry for his action and show off that there be a nice guy in there some ware . a i already say no . they make it very clear he be not sorry for any the thing he dose . in the movie meet the parent and meet the fockers and our lead face a similar problem with his father in law to be . however that work out on screen much good . why . because by the end the character who be be a jerk learn his lesson and realize he be in the wrong . something that never happen here . the best we get be when woodcock say i be basically sorry to the mom but after the entire movie one cant help but feel more mad then amuse . to make thing a little bad thing be never resolve . like there a little romance go on between our star and a girl he know from his old school but it never go any ware . in fact in one moment our hero cames off a a bit of jerk to because it seem he do not care much for her at all . so now our lead character not that likable earthier . then when it get to the end the movie feel a if it just stop . no laterally and it feel like it stop in mid moment and then the credit start . leave the movie feeling unfinished and make to quickly . over all what could of bin a good movie fall apart because thing be never resolve and character be unlikable and and send out the message that abuse while verbal or physical be cool as long a your mom love him . that why mr. woodcock get a negative .