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Elizabeth, Jaime Pressly, Tracy Kay Wolfe Rated R for strong sexual content including dialogue, and for language RATING CANADA... Rated AA for sexual innuendo and language |
 Comedy |
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TOMCATS opens with nicely done animated titles with lots of oogling cats, dogs and of course buxom animated females. Well I figure that set the mood of the film. Surprisingly they actually made this film without any nudity, just lots of heaving chests, and sexy outfits, oh yeah and they even throw in some nice domatrix outfits. If you go in thinking this is a serious film, boy are you going to see the wrong picture. This film is played strictly for laughs. This one will do okay at the boxoffice but it should do really good on video release. TOMCATS is the first feature from Joe Roth's Revolutions Studios. Joe Roth was the former Disney chief, who spent years producing animated family films. It seems he wanted to change his image from producing wholesome family fare. With TOMCATS he did produce a raunchy piece of work that has lots of jokes that will make you laugh as long as you can handle jokes about the horrors of marriage, diseased testicles, bestiality, domatrix grandmothers and lots and lots of raunchy jokes. This film is made for it's target audience and makes no pretense to anything else. Seven Years Ago Max is marrying the only girl with whom he has had sex. At the age of 19 he is the first fo his group to be married. The first real sex gag occurs due to the group of "Tomcats" drinking viagra spiked wine which causes a rather interesting male line at the alter. After this, the group decide to kick money into a pot which will be given to the last man standing, the last one to get married. This is called a tontine which is usually established to give monies to the last person alive from a group of people. Here of course they give us a different version. If you would like to see a really nice film about a tontine, pick up a movie called THE WRONG BOX starring Michael Caine, John Mills, Dudley Moore and Ralph Richardson. Now We head off to Las Vegas where an East Indian Elvis Presley impersonater is presiding over the marriage of fat Steve played by Horatio Sanz from Saturday night Live. His bride is Tricia (Jaime Pressly a cute little blond whom Steve is always expecting to leave him. We now have only two left to win the tontine, Michael (Jerry O'Connell) (Sliders, Mission To Mars and Jerry Maguire) and Kyle (Jake Busey)(Enemy Of State). Hopefully the son of Gary Busey will have a better career than the father. Now while in Vegas Michael being the ladies man gets conned into losing $51,000 in a casino. The casino owner, mobster (Bill Maher) gives him only one month to pay off his debt. So here is the crux of the story. Not a complicated plot is it. Mike has to get Kyle to fall in love. His plan is not that easy because Kyle is the ultimate Tomcat. His regard for women is virtually non-existant. Mike stands tp win $500,000 as the money was supposedly well invested. How they had time to invest the money between the womanizing is beyond me. Mike strikes a deal with Natalie (Shannon Elizabeth)(Scary Movie), an undercover vice cop. The thing here is for hwer to get Kyle to fall for her and marry her. Why this woman? Well, Natalie is the only woman that Kyle could ever even consider marrying. While they carry out their plan, Mike, unsurprisingly falls in love with her. Still he has to stifle the urge to go after her for the sake of the prize. This leads him into deciding to have sex with the first woman he sees. He didn't like the first one and went on to the second, a meek and mild librarian which is easy pickings as far as he is concerned. Mike's attempts to have sex with her leads up to probably the funniest sequence in the film. The librarian and her grandmother have many interesting surprises for him and later on for Kyle as well. Sometimes even tomcats find their match. The film also has some priceless laughs when Kyle discovers he has a medical condition. Kyle does fall in love as best he is possible with Natalie. Will he marry her? Will Kyle let them get married? Who will win the prize?? Come on this is a comedy, I can't tell you any more. While the story is far from complicated and certainly not deserving of classic status it is good for those who have a need to laugh. Some priceless scenes are with David Ogden Stiers and Gary Marshall, two guys who will make you laugh out loud. Hey we all need to laugh, so grab a drink and that tub of popcorn, sit back and get ready to howl at the sheer silliness and stupidity of TOMCATS |        |
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