Imagine your worst nightmare.  And then imagine this nightmare marrying your mother.  That is the premise of debut director Craig Gillespie’s new film MR. WOODCOCK, which surprisingly, is a comedy which sustains its laughs from start to end despite its rather simple idea.

THE BROTHERS SOLOMON, John (Will Arnett) and Dean (Will Forte, who also wrote the script) are romantically challenged.  In order to revive their father, Ed (Lee Majors) from a coma, they will provide him with a grandchild. 

SHOOT ’EM UP begins with a man named Mr. Smith (Clive Owen) delivering a woman’s baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from an army of gunmen led my Mr. Hertz (Paul Giamatti).

3:10 TO YUMA has the classic western scenario.  Quiet rancher who holds a secret, Dan Evans (Christian Bale) agrees to escort notorious outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) board the 3:10 prison train to Yuma for the $200 he needs to save his family ranch.  Word has got out to Wade’s gang led by Charlie Prince (Ben Foster).  But more is at stake than the money.  Dan prepares for a showdown in Contention City with the gang.

At the end credits of the mockumentary GREG & GENTILLON, actor Thomas Michael who plays Gentillon takes off his wig and tells the audience that everything else in the film is real.  It hardly matters as 10 minutes into the mockumentary, the feeling that the characters GREG & GENTILLON are made up comes as no surprise.  For one no one in Toronto (me being one) have heard of this group, nor does director Klinck make any attempt to make all the interviews look real.  The purpose of the documentary or mockumentary is defeated from the very start.