Metacritic Film

Tomcats

Starring Jerry O'Connell, Shannon Elizabeth, Jake Busey, Horatio Sanz, Bill Maher, Jaime Pressly, and John Patrick White

MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content including dialogue, and for language.

Revolution/Sony
Romance
105 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters March 30, 2001

The story of Michael Delaney (O'Connell), a struggling cartoonist, who must get his best friend and avowed bachelor, Kyle Bremmer (Busey) to wed within 30 days in order to win a bet and save himself from financial ruin. (Revolution Studios)

WRITTEN BY
Gregory Poirier

DIRECTED BY
Gregory Poirier

Overall Metascore

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

15 / 100

Critic Reviews

67 Entertainment Weekly
In its mingling of horniness and disgust, Tomcats attains a convoluted cleverness.
50 New York Daily News
An "American Pie" wanna-be that, in trying to be as tasteless as possible, sometimes succeeds.
50 New York Post
Much of Tomcats is actually boisterously, crudely entertaining.
50 Los Angeles Times
Raucously energetic and replete with a barrage of graphic sexual humor.
50 USA Today
This is 90 minutes of gags of the lowest order, yet Poirier occasionally injects them with more energy than anything in "Heartbreakers."
38 Boston Globe
Isn't as funny as it is crude, and isn't as crude as it is labored.
38 Chicago Tribune Loren King
Just a schlock romance pumped with testosterone.
30 TV Guide
Criticism seems irrelevant at best.
20 Chicago Reader Reece Pendleton
At least it has the decency not to pretend it's aspiring any higher than the toilet.
20 The New York Times
Desperately, depressingly in thrall to the Farrelly formula.
20 Variety
A boner-headed comedy whose sense of gross-out humor is calculated rather than inspired.
10 Rolling Stone
Laced with such rampant misogyny that the laughs stick in your throat.
10 LA Weekly
Grotesque and ugly.
5 Mr. Showbiz
There aren't even any naked chicks in it. What the hell is up with that?
0 Film.com
Re-adjust the levels of cinematic hell, because "Porky's" just got bumped up a notch.
0 Austin Chronicle
File this one under What Were They Thinking?
0 Washington Post
Go expecting the very worst. Just don't expect to laugh.
0 Chicago Sun-Times
There is a bright spot. He (Poirier) used up all his doggy-do-do ideas in the first picture "See Spot Run."
0 San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
Offers only tired jokes, grimace-worthy physical comedy and bad, bad acting.

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