Tomcats

Rating:
Summary: An offcolor, juvenile movie on a uninspiring DVD release
Review: This review is intended for the DVD release of TomCats. My main purpose here is to review the DVD release, including its quality, features and layout. I'll start with the Movie, then move on to the DVD itself.

TomCats is a rather offcolor movie that more than easily earns its R rating. It's a sexual comedy, revolving around a bet a number of unmarried men make as to which one of them will be the last to remain single. The bet winds up with two men stillstanding. One of them, (Jerry O'Connell) gets himself into debt. The pot on the bet is his only way to save himself from the debt-collectors. What results is a wild rather immature attempt to get the other guy to get married.

The whole movie is rather juvenile. The humor is often based on prattfalls and sexual sight jokes, and ocassionally verges on the sick and nausiating. The whole 10 minute amputated Canserous testical chase (which ends up with someone eating it *gag*) is just plain gross.

This movie was way below my sense of good taste. Of course, I watched it anyway. Shannon Elisabeth is in it. I couldn't help myself. :)

Now for the DVD. First off, The movie is offered in Widescreen and pan'n'scan. It is also offered in two languages. English and French. Since this is the American release of this movie, wouldn't Spanish be a better additional language than French?

Next off, the menu system was downright cludgy. I felt like I was playing "Hunt the pixel" as I tried to choose the different options on the main menu. It took me about 3 minutes to figure out that you couldn't click on the section titles themselves, but had to run the pointer over an invisable heart NEXT to them. And of course, every heart was in a different spot, sometimes left, sometimes right. Cludgy.

Once I figured out the menu system, I checked the special features. All that were offered were theatrical trailers and a filmography. Sort of meager.

Overall, this DVD release is nothing special. There's no special treats for DVD buyers except for the choice of pan'n'scan or widescreen. The movie itself is unforgettable, simply for it's disgustingness. Some might like it, but I'd give it a pass.

Rating:
Summary: Good but not as good as expected.
Review: Tomcats is a good movie about a group of buddies at a wedding who pledge not to get married ever. They all put money together. The last one to get married get's the whole thing. It's pretty funny but not as funny as American Pie. It was probably a better movie than American Pie but im not sure. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes sexual, gross-out comedies. If you liked American Pie you will probably like Tomcats.

Rating:
Summary: Three Little Words
Review: Unfortunately, this movie came out at a time when a lot of very funny comedies were on the horizon (Heartbreakers, American Pie 2, Freddy Got Fingered, etc.), so, it didn't review as well as it would have. While it was not as over-the-top as American Pie 2, it does rank right up there. I didn't give it five stars because at times it seems to drag. All editorial and press reviews aside, this was a very good movie. At times, I would find myself almost coughing from laughing so hard.

Here's a synopsis: The movie begins with a group of friends who are very disillusioned, they are afraid of commitment and want to remain "Tomcats" forever. They all place money into a high-yield mutual fund in the mid-90's and thinking that it wouldn't be that big of deal leave it there to collect interest. Flash-forward to present day, the pot is now almost half a million dollars and there are only two unmarried guys left, Kyle (Gary Busey) and Michael (Jerry O'Connell). While at their friend's wedding in Las Vegas, Michael gets in trouble at the craps table to the tune over 50 thousand dollars. He hatches a plan to fix up Kyle (who is filthy rich and pretty much has a different girl every night), with a former bridesmaid at his friend's wedding all those years ago, Natalie (played hilariously by Shannon Elizabeth). What follows are some of the most disgusting, degrading, and downright depraved scenes that I've seen to date (...). See this movie if you're a fan of gross-out comedy, or if you're just looking for a good laugh.

Rating:
Summary: Raunch At Its Hilarious BEST!!
Review: Well at least I think so. Jerry O'Connell, most recently of "Kangaroo Jack" fame, is one of two buddies in a large group of male friends who have pooled money together betting who can remain single. Finally it is down to O'Connell, an artist with some scruples, and his friend Kyle who has none. .............During a trip to Las Vegas, O'Connell runs up a $51K gambling debt to a hilariously vicious, yet deadpan Bill Maher and his goons. Although there is enough in the jackpot to free O'Connell from reposession hell as Maher takes all he owns as collateral, he has even tougher odds of getting Kyle married, since he is a complete louse to all woman kind........In walks Shannon Elizabeth as a cop who once dated Kyle and was left with a role of quarters in the road for a cab after being deflowered and dumped. She was a bridesmaid at one of the many weddings attended by the bachelor gang as they all became married one by one. O'Connell falls in love when he meets Elizabeth, but to free his debt, ends up getting her married to Kyle, or DOES he? YOU have to see this and find out for yourself.............While some are thumbing their nose at this film, I found it a scream. It was entertaining from start to finish, and lately, I find myself hitting the fast forward on many movies just to get through them. NOT "Tomcats". Is it sexist? SURE! I am a woman, I can laugh at this, in fact I did, out loud many times. There are more laughs and plain old feel good fun here than most comedies I have seen in awhile. A dominatrix librarian and her grannie partner who lure unsuspecting men into their dungeon of discipline? A diseased testicle ending up rocketing around a hospital while chased down by O'Connell? A wildly graphic and surrealistic restaurant scene where Elizabeth gives birth at the table in front of a party of 15-20 earth mothers vigorously and unabashedly breast feeding? Well if this sounds in poor taste, that is because it is! Delightfully so! Do not listen to the uptight folks who slammed this, unless you too have no sense of humor. Man or woman, take this movie for what it is, GOOD DIRTY FUN...and bring a big bowl of popcorn put your feet up and get ready to laugh.

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely the worst comedy of the last decade
Review: Where to start? It's a comedy, yet it's not funny. It's a movie, yet there's no acting in it (at least none that could be called that).

Jokes are at a junior high level, if that. Director must've slept through most of the production. But absolutely the worst part are these so called actors, I really wish somebody would explain to them that they are badly in need of another profession.

Oh, and I almost forgot, the plot is so predictable that the whole movie is obvious about 5-10 minutes into it.

Yes, the lead female role is played by a very beatiful non-actress. That perhaps is it's only redeaming feature.

Bottom line: Your money is better spend invested into Enron!

Rating:
Summary: Tomcats: Brilliance Below the Imbecility.
Review: While ostensibly the worst movie of the 21st century, this paean to masculinity has pushed the feminist movement up by 30 years. How? By exulting in the lowest common denominator of male attributes. Imbecilic jokes abound to entertaining the male masses who must make up the majority of this film's viewers. However, below the surface is brilliance, undercovered only by a select group of cinematic geniuses.
To the select few, this film is actually a stark examination of depravity: we are asked to observe B-grade actors be pushed increasingly lower into the depths. We explore what is NOT on the screen, such as the awkward human feeling behind the scenes. One can only imagine the director yelling "Tomcats, Scene 5, Act 4! ACTION!," as Horatio Sanz is asked for the fourteenth time to tell a (...) joke.
Thus, if you want to see phallus jokes and dispense high-fives, watch the film. If you want to see a brilliant dissertation of human depravity, check it out.

Rating:
Summary: ZERO STARS
Review: Who gave the greenlight for this movie? Who? Why? HOW? What were they smoking/drinking/thinking? Did the studio exec who read this script laugh? If so, I want to know where, because nothing that made it to the screen suggests that TOMCATS was a funny idea to begin with.

Sick. Rude. Offensive. Degrading. All these words are irrelevant in raunchy comedy if only it was funny. And I'm here to tell you people, as an uncultured teenage male of the American Pie generation, that TOMCATS is supremely UNFUNNY. This makes Jake Busey's performance in STARSHIP TROOPERS look like Best Supporting Actor material.

TOMCATS and FREDDY GOT FINGERED together in the same season is a one-two punch, a serious blow to the defense of the American Film Industry. Ever wonder why the French hate us? THIS is why. This is a comedy, and thus exempt from the "so bad it's good" category. But it fits nicely into the "So bad and unfunny it should burned." And I liked PEARL HARBOR.

I'm not just a radical reviewing panning this movie for fun. I watch a lot of movies and I think I'm pretty levelheaded when I say something about a movie.

Rating:
Summary: A Comedy For Open Minded People
Review: yes you definently have to have an open mind to watch this outrageos movie. There are funny Scenes, and there are not so much funny scenes. Some Characters were very flat, I felt they could of expanded their personality a little. Definently the star of the screen was Shannon Eliziabeth, with her dashing looks and big brown eyes.
Overall a funny little movie.