Great Film: Man of the House
If You Liked Miss Congeniality, Then You Will Like This, Too.
Man Of The House is about a Texas Ranger named Roland Sharp (Tommy Lee
Jones) who is hunting down potential witnesses and leads to testify
against a mob boss. While on the verge of capturing a potential lead,
his partner is shot and he loses his witness. Everything is up in the
air and no one knows which way to go when, luckily, five cheerleaders
witness the execution of the man Sharp was trying to capture, who is
named Morgan Ball (Curtis Armstrong - Who would have thought he would
still be making movies long after his most successful stint as Booger
has long been dead). After the girls decide to do the right thing, and
tell the police, they are held in protective custody until they can
capture the criminal who would surely be looking for them. They decide
that Sharp will look after them personally and live in the same house
as long as needed. This is where the comedy really begins.
The movie is meant to be a comedy, and I think Tommy Lee Jones did an
excellent job with it, as well as Cedric The Entertainer. The movie
opens like a typical action movie and then goes with the comedy all the
way until the end, when it reverts back to that one big action sequence
to end it all.
Jones and Cedric made the movie as good as it was. The cheerleaders
were simply eye candy, which is just fine by me. My favorite being Barb
(Kelli Garner). Jones comes off a little too old when he refuses to let
the girls run around the house in the usual skimpy teen attire we all
see nowadays, but that is just to show his character. You still get to
see plenty of the girls, which is probably as much an attraction as
Jones and Cedric.
This movie is a little hard to review for some reason but like I said
in the title, if you liked the movie Miss Congeniality, then you will
most likely enjoy this one, too. They are cut of the same cloth, so to
speak. If you did not like Miss Congeniality, then you probably will
not like this either. I guess that is the best way to put it. I enjoyed
it for what it was. 7.5/10
Cast
- Agent Eddie Zane played by Brian Van Holt
- Ranger Roland Sharp played by Tommy Lee Jones
- Percy Stevens played by Cedric The Entertainer
- Anne played by Christina Milian
- Professor Molly McCarthy played by Anne Archer
- Teresa (as Paula Garces) played by Paula Garcés
- Evie played by Monica Keena
