The Ladies Man
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Movie Reviews of The Ladies Man
Movie Review: TOO FUNNY
Summary: 4 Stars
I THOUGHT THIS MOVIE WAS REALLY FUNNY, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN HAVE IN YOUR COLLECTION FOR ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN IT IS JUST YOU OR YOU AND SOME FRIENDS , NO MATTER WHAT YOU'LL GET A GOOD LAUGH . EVERYTIME I SEE IT I FIND SOMETHING ELSE FUNNY. 4 STARS FROM ME!!Movie Review: Hillarious
Summary: 4 Stars
My son has been looking in stores trying to find this movie and could not locate it. I found it on Amazon and had it delivered as a gift in two days. Thanks Amazon!!Movie Review: So Funny
Summary: 4 Stars
There were so many funny hidden jokes in this movie. My family really enjoyed it.Movie Review: Have a nice day :) (Watch the movie to understand!!)
Summary: 3 Stars
Based on a SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE skit (The show doesn't screen in NZ, so please forgive my ignorance); along with IT'S PAT (ugh) and SUPERSTAR: DARE TO DREAM (marginally more bearable), THE LADIES MAN at first appears to be another seemingly futile attempt to expand a 5 minute skit to feature length. I was surprised to discover that this was actually a pretty funny movie.Leon Phelps (Tim Meadows) is an alcoholic DJ with a thevere lithp who is stuck in a 70s time warp. He thpecialithes in thex therapy, and dethpite having a stupid afro, he thomehow manages to get the ladieth. How DOETH he do it?
The main gag here is that a lot of the men who phone in to his show with their marital problems are in fact the spouses of women Leon's been sleeping with. So when one of the women's husbands (Lee Evans from THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY) catches him in the act, he and the other neglected hubbys round up a posse with the main objective being to kill Leon.
To make matters worse, Leon is fired by his boss (AMERICAN PIE's Eugene Levy) for his on air excesses. So this leaves Eugene and his pretty producer, Julia Simmons (Karyn Parsons- best known as Hilary on FRESH PRINCE) unemployed and maintaining and losing positions (One of them as DJ on a religious show and he misinterprets a nun talking about missionary work as...well, go figure). In addition to this Leon must avoid the outraged husbands who want to scalp his afro.
As a whole, THE LADIES MAN is a pretty shallow affair, but Meadows is so funny that he helps redeem it. Familiar faces in cameo roles include Billy Dee Williams as Lester; a bartender who serves FEAR FACTOR style bar meals- though he goes a little further than even FF would dare!
And also making an appearance is Julianne Moore, in a role unlike any other she's played. In fact, it's actually quite disturbing. Watching her as Clarice Starling will never be the same after seeing her here. Even Dr. Lecter would be put off his fava beans and Chianti.
Movie Review: Probably funnier with an audience
Summary: 3 Stars
The Ladies Man basically came off as just an okay movie (I'm not exactly sure why it was rated R), but most Saturday Night Live movies aren't all that anyway. If you try to watch this movie and you have never seen a Ladies Man sketch on SNL, you'll probably think most of the jokes are sophomoric, so your best bet is to catch some SNL reruns with the sketch to get up to speed. But all in all, the movie seems like it would have been funnier if you saw it in the theater where you could watch it with an audience (and I mean a REAL audience, not a laugh track). I suggest you rent it first or try to catch it on HBO, but don't watch it alone; invite some friends over.Anthony Rupert