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The Ladies Man (2000)

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Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 73
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 65

The Ladies Man joins the growing list of mediocre movies based on SNL skits. It just doesn't have enough material to last the length of the movie.

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Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 15

The Ladies Man joins the growing list of mediocre movies based on SNL skits. It just doesn't have enough material to last the length of the movie.

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Average Rating: 2.6/5
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Movie Info

Yet another recurring character from Saturday Night Live makes the jump to the big screen in this comedy. Leon Phelps (Tim Meadows) is the host of a radio call-in show in which he dispenses advice on the fine art of seduction, for which he seems to have quite a talent -- rather surprising, seeing that he's usually broke, nearly everything he says sounds crass and obvious, and he possesses a fashion sense that would have been gauche in the mid-1970s but seems just plain freakish today. After

R, 1 hr. 24 min.

Comedy

Tim Meadows, Dennis McNicholas, Andrew Steele

Apr 17, 2001

$13.4M

Paramount Pictures

Cast

All Critics (74) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (65) | DVD (9)

Grows more tedious the longer it's on the screen.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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Desperately unfunny.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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80 minutes of comic mistiming and missed opportunities.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Mr. Showbiz
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One more case of a winning SNL character tamed by the wan, fizzled farce around him.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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The results are disconcertingly bland under Reginald Hudlin's direction.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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Only ... fans of Meadows' anachronistic Ladies Man caricature are likely to have any interest in this slapped-together, unfunny movie.

January 1, 2000 Comment
Hollywood Reporter
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Dumb -- SNL skits don't work as movies.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Another Saturday Night Live sketch character tries, futilely, to stretch to feature-length proportion...

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

The director wants his film to be as smooth and as infectious as the funkadelic music he highlights throughout, but a string of bad decisions prevents that from happening.

October 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | Comment
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Just when you thought they couldn't get worse, Saturday Night Live-based movies hit a new low.

October 14, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

After I swallowed my disbelief and gave my critical faculties a break, yeah, I was tickled every 40 minutes or so.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Lorne Michæls has crapped out another one that is only worth catching when it finally makes its way to cable.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

The Ladies Man is a total dud.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

A putrid mess...simultaneously vulgar and boring.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | Comment
One Guy's Opinion

...Hampered as much by the film's third-rate script as Meadows's own weakness as an actor.

March 19, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | Comment
Film Quips Online

Used to be Halloween was the scariest event each October. Recently, the most horrifying thing is the release of another comedy based on a Saturday Night Live sketch.

August 16, 2002 Full Review | Comment
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Any criticism of a film like The Ladies Man is essentially moot.

June 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

The Ladies Man is pointless and should never have been made. But check your brain at the door and it almost stacks up to a snifter of Courvoisier and a handful of butt.

March 24, 2002 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | Comment
Boston Phoenix

Not just ordinarily unfunny, The Ladies Man is ghastly almost beyond belief.

December 17, 2001 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

It just seems to go on and on, never arriving at either a point or a satisfying conclusion.

December 10, 2001 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment
Shadows on the Wall

Yet another awful Saturday Night Live movie.

September 30, 2001 Full Review Source: Radio Free Entertainment | Comment
Radio Free Entertainment

When Meadows's three-minute sketch persona is stretched out to cover a whole movie, the cracks soon start to show.

August 10, 2001 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

Reminds us why creative bankruptcy should be a capital offence.

July 26, 2001 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Ladies Man

The Ladies is not an excellent comedy by any means, but it definitely isn't the worst. I think the film is a bit underrated, and though I agree it's not an excellent comedy, it still is a fun, entertaining mindless film that has a few good laughs throughout the film. This is not a perfect film, but it has its moments.

January 19, 2012
TheDudeLebowski65
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

one of the 2 or 3 funniest movies ever made, but just too crude to justify

January 25, 2007
sanjurosamurai
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