Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4855 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-01-28
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 84 minutes

Synopsis
With BAD SANTA, Billy Bob Thornton proved he was willing to go all the way--no holds barred--in portraying unsympathetic, foulmouthed jerks. Here he brings that same skill to bear as the title character, a sadistic junior high school gym teacher who is every uncoordinated or overweight student's worst nightmare. Best-selling author of self-help books, Farley (Sean William Scott) thinks the tortures he's suffered at the hands of Woodcock are just the stuff of traumatic childhood memory (such as being told, 'You are a disgrace to fat, gelatinous kids the world over'), until he goes home to Nebraska to pick up an award and learns his widowed mother (Susan Sarandon) is in love with the man who made him miserable all those years ago. Farley recruits his unkempt buddy (Ethan Suplee) in a series of backfiring schemes to wreak some belated vengeance and expose Woodcock before the nuptials are sealed.
There's plenty of nasty repartee between Scott and Thornton and some funny-disturbing bits from side characters, like Farley's ferocious publicist (Amy Poehler) and Bill Macy as Woodcock's even more sadistic father. Sarandon brings a lot of touching innocence to the table as a sheltered widow daring to feel love again, and Scott does some nice squirming and pratfalls. But of course it's Thornton's movie all the way--he grabs the ball and never lets it go, unless of course it's to hurl it at some poor kid's head.

Customer Reviews

Unbelievably bad,one to avoid
This film is a Comedy with no laughs! Typically American,telling a story with a message of underlying morality.A Bullying Teacher who only bullied schoolchildren with their best interests at heart.Not a bad-guy but mis-understood.Yeh,right!! Don't even consider watching this film,it cost me two hours of my life that i can never recover.Don't make the mistake i made in watching this nonsense.

Funny & realistic
After reading the mixed reviews I thought I had made the wrong choice in renting the film. But I really enjoyed it. It is intelligent humour with a great story line and reaches out to those you prefer a mopre sophisticated comedy rather than an in your face lewd humour.
If you like the former then this is definatley worth a rent.

it's okay
I have some things to say about this movie when i saw it it was funny and when i saw it for the second time the humour was not that funny,so what i am saying is the humour in this is not something you would laugh at that much it's just something that's funny once but then just starts to get old.The next thing about this movie is that i was surprised it was a 12 for a film that's aged 12 the language in it was inappropriate, it had a lot of adult language..the films ok but a bit dull. So if you want a comedy that's not too funny just something to make you laugh a small amount this is for you.