Python Hyena Tomcats (2001): Dir: Gregory Poirier / Cast: Jerry O'Connell, Jake Busey, Shannon Elizabeth, Horatio Sanz, Jaime Pressly: Stupid teen sex comedy about a group of bachelors who bet on who can remain single the longest. When Jerry O'Connell loses big time in Vegas he makes a deal with the police woman who arrests him. Apparently a fellow bachelor stood her up and she accepts the task of helping O'Connell win. Familiar concept seems lifted from the superior American Pie. Directed by Gregory Poirier who does a fine job at spoofing other films throughout, which gives this perverted escapade some visual appeal. Despite its idiocy O'Connell plays off the humour effectively as a helpless victim of chance when assaulted with one sexual turnoff after another. Jake Busey plays a womanizer counter to O'Connell who will arrive at the same moronic climax as his competition with no sense of decency. Shannon Elizabeth as the police woman who becomes nothing more than a sexual prop. Is it difficult to predict that she and O'Connell will hook up? Horatio Sanz plays O'Connell's airhead friend. Jaime Pressly is featured so that Elizabeth can have competitive eye candy. Vulgar scenes include a testicle that makes an incredible journey onto someone's dinner plate. The purpose of this film is to feed off the success of American Pie thus becoming a pointless perverted orgy. Score: 4 / 10

acustomer Firstly, I may well be slightly biased- because I really truly enjoyed this movie. However, seeing it with a score under 5- and then looking at the reviews, there is a notable trend. The good reviews are predominantly well punctuated and articulate, with such things as (gasp) accurate spelling and grammar. Conversely, most of the bad reviews tend to be short blurbs with not a capital letter to be found.My take on this: Despite being a dumb comedy, Tomcats is to nuanced for the average consumer of dumb comedy. So, it's a smart-dumb comedy. The timing of jokes is impeccable, the pace is excellent, and the actual material is above average- with some of it even fresh! This leaves it in a bad place for reviews though- because it means a small segment of people love it, while big segments of the population (the pretentious smart and the uncultured dumb, we'll call them) will always pan this movie. So, if you're smarter than the average bear- but still appreciate dumb comedy romps, go for it- this one is a keeper.

afielder-1 Everyone talks about how stupid this movie is - one insists it's totally degrading to women - but come on, it's a deliberately stupid movie, a spoof of every GUY stereotype out there. I thought the way men were lampooned was hilarious, and I'm a guy. Sure, the women are degraded, but that's a spoof of guy's attitudes, too. Some people have no ability to laugh at themselves or at social tendencies and think everything needs to be politically correct. This movie is so incorrect it's ridiculous, which is why it's funny. Jerry O'Connell is actually good, and Shannon Elizabeth has good chemistry with him. Jake Busey's character is so full of himself it's funny, because he has no reason to be. The sight gags with Jamie Pressly and the maid border on hilarious. (Yes, the testicle gag is downright gross and calls for extreme suspension of belief.) Don't take the movie seriously at all and you might enjoy it if you're in a kind of raunchy mood.

BloodTheTelepathicDog This comedy is far and away better than American Pie or Road Trip! Not a single joke written by Gregory Poirier misses its mark. Unlike American Pie, you can watch this film over and over again, and continue to laugh at the same jokes.It does incorporate Pie's Shannon Elizabeth, who was much better in American Pie, lets face it, with her clothes on, she is nothing spectacular. I found it easier to relate with the guys on Tomcats(O'Connell, Busey & Sanz) than the horny teens of Pie. Jerry O'Connell(the fat kid off Stand By Me) gives a great performance here as does Busey, Sanz and the sexy redheaded librarian Heather Stephens.I can't wait to see more of Gregory Poirier's work in the future. He has a certain knack for capturing the despair of being a single twentysomething in modern day American.This is an instant classic that I rushed out and bought right after renting it.