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The Ladies Man (2000)
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Reviews Counted:65
Fresh:7
Rotten:58
Average Rating:3.1/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Oct 13, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $13,384,928
Synopsis: After years of playing supporting roles, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE veteran Tim Meadows finally makes the leap to the big screen with this outrageous comedy, based on a popular sketch from the television... After years of playing supporting roles, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE veteran Tim Meadows finally makes the leap to the big screen with this outrageous comedy, based on a popular sketch from the television show. Meadows is the hysterically exaggerated Leon Phelps, a smooth-talking, lisping, sex-loving skirt chaser, whose every line is even more crass and politically incorrect than the one before it. Just when everything seems to be sailing along smoothly, Phelps is fired from his job as a radio talk show host for making inappropriate comments on the air. As he searches for a new job with his too-good-to-be-true producing partner Julie (Karyn Parsons), he receives a letter from a woman claiming he is her true love. The only problem is that he can't figure out which of his many conquests she happens to be. By the time an angry mob of jealous husbands--led by the Greco-Roman wrestling Lance DeLune (Will Ferrell)--catches up with him, he has decided once and for all who he really wants. Meadows's obvious affection for his character shines through in THE LADIES MAN, providing the film with a surprising amount of sweetness. In addition to many SNL regulars, Julianne Moore appears briefly as a horny clown with an insatiable appetite for The Ladies Man. [More]
Starring: Tim Meadows, Will Ferrell, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Billy Dee Williams
Starring: Tim Meadows, Will Ferrell, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Billy Dee Williams, Lee Evans, Kevin McDonald, Karyn Parsons, John Witherspoon
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Screenwriter: Tim Meadows, Dennis McNicholas, Andrew Steele
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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Reviews for The Ladies Man
As the plot points arrive, they're all stretched to the max. Even the film's most unexpected bit ... goes on and on and on.
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.
In Phelps' own words, the tedious Ladies Man is a dirty, bus stop skank.
Calling The Ladies Man one of the least grating Saturday Night Live movies may be the most tepid praise imaginable, but that's the best it's going to get.
The Ladies Man joins the crop of terrible movies based on Saturday Night Live skits, and offers serious competition for a title as the worst.
Saying that The Ladies Man is the best movie spawned from Saturday Night Live in quite some time is sort of like grading the quality of dog doo.
Has neither the laughs of Roxbury nor the heart of Superstar, exposing itself as merely a very shallow and forgettable comedy.
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