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Tomcats (2001)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:3

Rotten:18

Average Rating:2.8/10

Consensus: Why even bother? You already know if you're going to see it or not.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong sexual content including dialogue, and for language

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Mar 30, 2001 Wide

Box Office: $12,853,541

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

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04/05/01
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Laced with such rampant misogyny that the laughs stick in your throat.

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04/05/01
Peter Travers
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Rolling Stone
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In its mingling of horniness and disgust, Tomcats attains a convoluted cleverness.

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04/05/01
Owen Gleiberman
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Entertainment Weekly
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This is 90 minutes of gags of the lowest order.

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03/30/01
Mike Clark
Mike Clark
USA Today
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Offers only tired jokes, grimace-worthy physical comedy and bad, bad acting.

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03/30/01
Carla Meyer
Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle
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Yet one more slice of American Pie-style outrageousness for and about guys with raging libidos and pinheads.

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03/30/01
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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Much of Tomcats is actually boisterously, crudely entertaining.

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03/30/01
Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman
New York Post
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Raucously energetic and replete with a barrage of graphic sexual humor.

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03/30/01
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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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.

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03/30/01
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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An inept, gross variation on Farrelly brothers' themes.

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03/30/01
Susan Stark
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Detroit News
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Simply dull. It's gross, but never really risque.

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03/30/01
Anthony Breznican
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A comedy positioned outside the normal range of human response.

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03/30/01
Roger Ebert
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Chicago Sun-Times
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From dumb and dumber comedy it drags us south to bonehead.

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03/30/01
Jay Carr
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Boston Globe
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At times, it doesn't seem like movies can achieve any further debasement in the gross-out sweepstakes. And then along comes Tomcats.

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03/29/01
Michael O'Sullivan
Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
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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.

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03/29/01
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
New York Times
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This movie bites.

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03/29/01
Lawrence Terenzi
Lawrence Terenzi
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Tomcats seems obsessed not by offering viewers a good time, but by trying to out-gross its predecessors.

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03/29/01
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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Tomcats is the first film to be produced by Revolution, the new company of former Disney Studios boss Joe Roth. If this is the revolution, start it without me.

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03/29/01
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Detroit Free Press
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