Critic Reviews

• Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader

  The image that best sums up this dismal comedy is Cedric the Entertainer cringing over a cell phone that's been hidden in a cow's rectum.

• Anna Smith, Time Out

  This makes an even worse job of its premise than you might expect, leaving it to the usual sidekick, Cedric the Entertainer, to provide the occasional laugh as a convict-turned-holy man.

• Chris Tamarri, Village Voice

  None of the girls are demonstrably embarrassed to be in the film, which speaks to either their work ethic or their poor taste.

• Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

  I venture that this is not what we really want from Tommy Lee Jones.

• Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

  It's got a lot of small movies bouncing around inside it, but there's no big movie on the outside.

• Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

  Though there isn't much to recommend Man of the House, there's really no reason to warn people off of it, either.

• Nell Minow, Common Sense Media

  Not too much to cheer about in this lame movie.

• , Empire Magazine

  Anyone who's ever built a shrine to Tommy Lee Jones may enjoy this -- but it would take several troops of cheerleaders to muster up enthusiasm from anyone else.

• Keith Phipps, AV Club

  The highlights, or at least breaks from the tedium, come from Cedric The Entertainer.

• Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena

  Há duas ou três piadinhas que funcionam, mas Tommy Lee Jones parece deslocado e a direção aposta demais nos corpos - fabulosos, é verdade - de suas atrizes.

• David Cornelius, eFilmCritic.com

  Yes, boys and girls, this is a comedy that, in the year 2005, thinks a montage set to Right Said Fred's greatest hit would be hysterical.

• Mark Pfeiffer, Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

  Man of the House is an amiable trifle that might be a guilty pleasure if it were better.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  Essentially, then, the film is an excuse for Tommy Lee Jones to do his craggy hard man act in a house full of scantily-clad cheerleaders.

• Neil Smith, BBC

  Overall the film is as static as its star's face which -- given the large amount of scantily-clad female flesh on display -- is really quite an achievement.

• David Noh, Film Journal International

  Small wonder this turkey, which required three screenwriters, has been sitting on the shelf for two years.

• Jules Brenner, Cinema Signals

  Goofy, good natured fun and, with all the dazzling bodies, can we really come away from it wanting more?

• Clint Morris, Moviehole

  Fun, enjoyable, cute...made all the more endurable thanks to the obviously good-humoured Lee Jones

• Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

  The few moments of sharp humour in this film just aren't quite enough to make it work.

• Jimmy O, Film Snobs

  Tommy Lee Jones the Concept is Firmly Established

• Thomas Delapa, Boulder Weekly

  Give me a "T" for terrible.

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