Metacritic Film

Ladies Man, The

Starring Tim Meadows, Karyn Parsons, Billy Dee Williams, and Kevin McDonald

MPAA RATING: R for sexual content and language

Paramount Pictures
Comedy
84 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters October 13, 2000

Leon Phelps (Meadows) is the grooviest, smooth-talking, woman-chaser around. Known suitably to all as the Ladies Man, Leon hosts a popular late-night radio call-in show dispensing advice on affairs of the heart. (Paramount Pictures)

WRITTEN BY
Tim Meadows
Dennis McNicholas
Andrew Steele

DIRECTED BY
Reginald Hudlin

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

22 / 100

Critic Reviews

75 New York Daily News
A guilty pleasure, right up there with "The Water Boy."
50 Los Angeles Times
Manages to sustain a sweet, funny groove for, say, 65 of its 85 minutes.
50 Entertainment Weekly
One more case of a winning ''SNL'' character tamed by the wan, fizzled farce around him.
50 Philadelphia Inquirer
A collection of double entendres that would make a stevedore blush.
50 San Francisco Chronicle
An unblushing sex farce often so raw it might make even fairly open-minded people feel a bit uncomfortable.
50 TV Guide
The film is a harmless extension of the skit, aimed at fans and best viewed as a showcase for Meadows's considerable talents.
50 Boston Globe Vladimir Zelevinsky
Overstays its welcome.
38 Chicago Tribune
Not without its humorous moments, but they are too few and far between.
38 Mr. Showbiz
80 minutes of comic mistiming and missed opportunities.
33 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Tepid and only sporadically amusing.
30 The New York Times
Has some funny, dirty-minded jokes, a few amusing cameos (including Julianne Moore in clown makeup) and a soundtrack loaded with juicy cuts of mid-70's vintage soul and funk.
25 San Francisco Examiner
As movies about relic sex machines go, this one lacks mojo.
25 USA Today
This Paramount release doubles the insult because it rips off the title of one of the studio's best-remembered Jerry Lewis comedies.
25 Baltimore Sun Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Why would anyone pay to see this movie?
25 New York Post
Painfully stupid.
25 Chicago Sun-Times
Desperately unfunny.
25 Miami Herald
Unsurprisingly, relentlessly awful.
20 LA Weekly
The story sinks, along with any deeper laughs, under boringly formulaic motivations and plot twists.
20 Variety
The question isn't where is the love but where are the laughs?
10 Washington Post
Another cheesy, overdrawn and witless "Saturday Night Live" takeoff.
10 Film.com
God-awful.
0 Austin Chronicle
One of the most deadly dull "SNL" spinoffs.
0 Chicago Reader
Insulting to audience and cast alike.

CLOSE THIS WINDOW

©2009 CNET Networks Inc. All rights reserved.