A lame stinker.
Tomcats (2001)
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:11
Rotten:61
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: Why even bother? You already know if you're going to see it or not.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: From the opening animated title sequence to the vulgarities at the film's climax, Gregory Poirer's directing debut is an obnoxiously funny comedy with a sharp romantic edge flowering beneath its... From the opening animated title sequence to the vulgarities at the film's climax, Gregory Poirer's directing debut is an obnoxiously funny comedy with a sharp romantic edge flowering beneath its T&A exterior. The plot surrounds a "kitty" (double entendre intended), created by a group of swinging pals determined to stave off marriage at all costs, with the cash headed towards whoever stays single the longest. Seven years later, only two of the friends remain single, and the pot is up to a half million in cash. When one of the two singles, Michael Delaney (Jerry O'Connell), runs afoul of the Las Vegas gambling mafia on account of a big-breasted babe, he needs that kitty cash desperately. Michael attempts to con his competitor, Kyle Brenner (Jake Busey), into marrying the wildly attractive policewoman Natalie (Shannon Elizabeth), who holds a personal vendetta against Kyle. But the best laid plans begin to run afoul when Natalie and Michael fall for each other instead. Filled with totally gross sex gags, pot shots at other films, and slapstick humor, TOMCATS is a humorous take on adult men who have not outgrown their adolescent mentalities about love, sex, and relationships. [More]
Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Jake Busey, Shannon Elizabeth, Horatio Sanz
Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Jake Busey, Shannon Elizabeth, Horatio Sanz, Jaime Pressly
Director: Gregory Poirier
Director: Gregory Poirier
Screenwriter: Gregory Poirier
Producer: Tony Ludwig, Alan Riche, Paul Kurta
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Reviews for Tomcats
The only thing funny about this movie is how numbingly unfunny an hour and a half can be.
This feature makes Three Stooges Meet Hercules look like a visionary satire.
Even if you enjoy 100 per cent leering, mean-spirited comedy, you won’t find much to like here.
Of course, we expect such films to be tasteless. That's their job. But that doesn't forgive them for being more abusive than bawdy or more sleazy than kinky.
Offers only tired jokes, grimace-worthy physical comedy and bad, bad acting.
Tomcats is so sloppy that Gregory Poirier, who wrote and directed, apparently couldn't be bothered to pick up a dictionary to double-check his own ignorance.
The film is enthusiastically vulgar but not particularly funny, perhaps because it too often loses the distinction between gross-out humor and the merely gross.
There's almost no nudity in this movie; one shot of O'Connell's naked ass and no Elizabeth whatsoever. So, if that's what was going through your one-track mind, then forget it.
Poirier ... throws everything he can think of at the screen in this bawdy comedy ... in hopes that something will stick. Little of it does.
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