I didn't expect much when I went to see this movie with Dave, but afterwards I thought it was an ok movie. Dave on the other hand thought it was so bad it was a little funny (maybe on the same scale as Dungeons and Dragons if Dave had seen it). Tomcats has a very simple plot: seven friends decided seven years ago to each put in a certain amount of money into stocks, with the last single person getting all of the stocks. (They call themselves tomcats because of their wild single life.)

Seven years later the third to last tomcat, Steve (Horatio Sanz) is getting married to Tricia (Jaime Pressly) in Las Vegas. This leaves only Michael Delaney (Jerry O'Connell), a comic strip colorist, and Kyle Brenner (Jake Busey) as the only two tomcats left. The pot is now up to almost half a million dollars and Kyle is for sure never getting married, whereas Michael brought a date to the wedding. That doesn't matter because they break up that night when Michael thinks that his girlfriend wants to take their relationship higher.

Anyway, Michael is drinking at the hotel bar, sees a beautiful red-head. The bartender says you don't have a chance, she's only into high-rollers. Ok then, let's go for the big states and Michael is next seen at the craps table, the red-head beside him doing things to the dice for luck. Michael is losing badly but can't stop until Steve gets there, a little too late. With a debt of 51 thousand dollars, they are taken to the casino owner, Carlos (Bill Maher), who gives Michael 30 days to pay him off or else.

What to do, what to do? Aha! Michael comes up with a plan: get Kyle married. He talks to Kyle and finds out that the only woman he had some sort of feelings with was Natalie Parker, from seven years ago when they dated once. Ok, Natalie was a bridesmaid in the first Tomcats wedding. Now to find her, convince her to go with Michael's plan, and not fall in love with her.

That's it. The plot is not original, but the execution certainly is creative. A huge number of jokes that kept me laughing throughout the movie. Mostly sex jokes of one kind or another or really embarassing situations. There's a minor thread in the movie where Steve suspects that Tricia is having an affair and everytime he thinks he's caught her it turns out to be something innocuous.

The acting is good. Jake Busey in particular does some really embarassing things and pulls it off well because that's how the character is. Shannon Elizabeth did a fine job and it's certainly a bigger role than in American Pie. Jerry O'Connell is pretty good. He's not the macho-type leading man but he can play the more hysterical characters quite well, and Michael is quite hysterical, almost blubbery at times. I don't think I've seen Horation Sanz before but his whole side plot is well done. Jaime Pressly has a small role but she has a sexy husky voice. She's also in Jack and Jill.

So, looking through some of the reviews, it seems like everybody hates this movie. There were a lot of young teenagers there for a rated R movie and they had a lot of fun, and the movie is geared towards that kind of gross comedy that younger kids like. I wasn't particularly interested in going to Tomcats, but I'm glad I went. It's funny, though I don't think I could see this or a similar movie again for a couple of years and find it as funny. Lots of visual gags. And it does have a romantic plot which without it it definitely would not have been as good a movie. I don't this is a date movie, more of a guy movie.