Favorite Lines from the Audience:

"Fumblerooskey! Fumblerooskey!"

"Oh God no!" -- Shankster's response to "Fumblerooskey! Fumblerooskey!"

"Oh yeah!" -- Red Sonja's response to seeing Tiffany Thiessen in the nighty.

Favorite Lines from the Movie:

"I have a PhD in Tang."

Nun: "Have you ever been down the yellow river?"
Leon: "Yes, once back in the eighties. But I did not like it."

"Was your daddy a meat burglar? Cause it looks like someone stole two fine hams and shoved them down the back of your dress."

"Do you want to do it in da butt?"

Leon: "You know who’s fault this is, right? It’s the fault of the wang. I should cut this thing off."
Julie: "No, don't do that"
Leon: "Yeah, you're right. I can't believe I said that."

"Take the lotion Leon. Its pretty rough without it."

"I believe the medical term for that is the hershey highway."

"Doggy style..."

Reviews

Red Sonja

I know this film has been panned by a lot of the "critics," but they don't know what the hell they are talking about. This movie is hysterical. I haven't laughed this hard since the early scenes in Scary Movie. The Ladies Man falls into that wonderfully entertaining, yet rarely reached, category of films that we here at the club like to refer to as "brilliantly bad." The Ladies Man makes no apologies for this, in fact it revels in the glory of being a completely tasteless movie. And unlike many recent films (Coyote Ugly. Boy I would have gnawed my arm off to get out of that one) it delivers the goods promised in the trailers. The trailers promise crass low brow humor and man oh man do you get it. Tim Meadows is incredible as the master of love Leon Phelps (a character that I suspect may have been modeled after our own Fabio Joe) and Will Ferrell is a riot as a former "olympic wrestler" who still "trains" with his original training partner ten years after the fact. And Tiffany Thiessen... oh me oh my... all she has to do is show up on the screen and she gets my seven bucks. Had she been naked at any point I would have given the film 5 stars, though I still tacked on a 1/2 star for the nighty she was wearing. In conclusion, if you love trashy humor, scantily clad women, and can stand the occasional shot of bare male ass, go see this movie. You will be glad you did.

Dogburt

Wayne's World, It's Pat, Stuart Saves His Family, Night at the Roxbury, Superstar, and now, The Ladies Man. What do they all have in common? In the opening credits they all say "Lorne Michaels production," which pretty much dooms the movie from the start. Certainly, these movies have varying degrees of badness, some more un-watchable than others. In all cases Lorne Michaels is trying to convert a five minute sketch piece that already may or may not be very funny and stretch it into a 90 minute film that somehow has a cohesive plot.

And that brings us to Tim Meadows' The Ladies Man. I'll be honest- the sketch was one of my all-time favorites from the SNL veteran. There was something just so wrong about it that makes it so funny. And surprisingly, this film makes a decent transition from sketch to film. Obviously it’s never going to be a masterpiece, so you have to take it for what it is- an excuse to use the words "wang," "doggy style," "da butt," and "bone" in as many ways as possible. And there lies the fun in so many SNL skits- the creation of those memorable phrases that have you repeating them to no end. In fact, the lines don’t become funny until you yourself say them out loud in any situation imaginable. There is just something so right about talking to a business client on the phone, when you say, "uh, yeah…so you say you want to buy 300 shares, but wouldn't it be better to just do it doggy style?"

Does Ladies Man have a plot? Only in the loosest sense of the word. Our Hero Leon Phelps is fired for having a Ph.D. in Tang and must find a new meal ticket. As the result of receiving a letter from "Sweet Thing," he realizes that his mission is to find this wealthy lass and hop on the gravy train. In the process a militant musically inclined Fight Club has vowed it necessary to sing, dance, and lop off the Ladies Man's wang with some bolt cutters. Folks, it doesn’t get any more intense than that!

So we get a young African American man struggling with his identity and trying to overcome his own personal limitations to find out who he truly is…and do it up da butt with as many high class bus stop skanks as he possibly can, and in the meantime look for love. That about sums it up.

Bottom line- it ain't going to win any Oscars. But it's a good time if you go with a bunch of tasteless friends like TNMC has in spades, and you will have a good time. This is what TNMC was founded upon, and that’s all right with me.

I just don't EVER want to see Will Ferrell covered in baby oil EVER again.

Shankster

This movie was hysterical for the first 30-45 minutes and then it fell into the Adam Sandler, let's make you feel good/tug on your heart strings after being raunchy template. I hate that, and so I'm not going to have anything good to say about this film. A movie that could have been brilliant in it's raunchiness was made bad because someone saw the need to drop a load of sappiness right at the end of the movie.

If you like the character idea of Leon Phelps go. If you're expecting a movie that is raunchy, gross, and over the top for the entire running time, then you might as well wait for the video. I think movies from SNL Studios need to go on the same black ball list as Adam Sandler movies.

Batman

I think Red Sonja is overly starved for a brilliantly bad movie. 'Cause this one ain't it. The first half of the movie leads the viewer to think they are being treated to a brilliantly bad movie but the second half stumbles badly and comes off as a seriously weak romance.

There is a scene around half way through where the movie suddenly shifts gears. Except it doesn't do it smoothly. In fact it changes pace so clumsily that I would have sworn I heard those gears grinding. It suddenly tries to shift from raunchy humor to sappy romance and then makes a half hearted attempt to go back. In the process the momentum is killed and along with it most of the humor.

Still I did laugh pretty hard during the first half and I learned some important lessons:

• Never attempt to commit suicide while watching porn.
• Never eat pickled foods at a bar. Particularly the items under the bar itself.
• Butt lotion is flammable.
• A good oil for wrestling should have a nice lemony fresh scent.
• Magic cream is hard to get out of curtains.

Clearly I will benefit greatly from this knowledge.