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BY MAGGIE SCOTT
\n While the other teachers are there to fill the empty space between their students\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ears, Forest Meadow Middle School\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s P.E. teacher is working on what he sees as the absence of a spine in each of the pasty-faced, pre-pubescent pupils lined up, warily waiting for their coach to give them the business.<\/p>\n

Billy Bob Thornton takes deadpan malevolence to Shakespearean heights as the title character in “Mr. Woodcock,” an outrageously funny revision of all those films about beloved teachers who made an indelible impression on their students. Jasper Woodcock is a Mr. Chips of an entirely different stripe.<\/p>\n

If Sidney Poitier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teacher is the kind who inspires the tribute song, “To Sir, With Love,” Thornton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teacher is the kind who inspires a book called, “Letting Go: How to Get Past Your Past,” written by John Farley (Seann William Scott), 13 years after he was the “round sack of air” Woodcock picked on in boys gym class. <\/p>\n

Although Farley appears to have healed enough to channel his antipathy for Woodcock into the desire to help others work through their emotional blocks, it soon becomes clear on his return to Forest Meadow to receive the Corn Cob Key at the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual Cornival that it won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take much to open old wounds.<\/p>\n

Like the news from his glowing mother Beverly (Susan Sarandon) that she is dating the “sweet, considerate” Mr. Woodcock. Faced with this perverse and inconceivable situation, John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s past comes rushing back; and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as if Woodcock had just “taken down” (to the wrestling mat) the “porker” (John) one more humiliating time.<\/p>\n

Mom isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the only one in town who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s felt something good about Woodcock. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on the same bill with John at Cornival to receive the Educator of the Year award, and there will be plenty of testimonials (some a little suspect) to support the dubious honor.<\/p>\n

As far as John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concerned, the whole town has been hoodwinked; and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to prove that Woodcock\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no good, if he has to dig up dirt about the teacher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s other marriage, prove Woodcock is cheating on Beverly or just show him up at Cornival challenging him to a corn on the cob eating contest. No matter what Mom says about being happy and how she wants her “boys” to get along, John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stake in this rivalry is too big.<\/p>\n

John thinks he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working on that backbone Woodcock would have sworn he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t possess. But, maybe beating Woodcock at his own game isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worth the price if John loses the respect of the person who really had the biggest influence on his life\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6his former Corn Cob Queen mother. <\/p>\n

Besides the hilarious mistreatment of the kids, Seann William Scott\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mugging in stymied desperation as the perfect foil for Thornton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impervious mask really sells this oddball comedy. A New Line release, rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content; thematic material; language and mild drug reference. <\/p>\n

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