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Not because he is one of my favourite actors but because he does not really do anything wrong in this film. With the lead role of Texas Ranger, Roland Sharp going to Tommy Lee Jones I find it very hard to criticise his performance. As a straight man with a dry sense of humour he is brilliant but he does need another comedy talent for this to work at its best. Probably the biggest problem with the plot or in reality the film is the lack if another adult figure for Tommy Lee Jones to play off of. Even the surprise romance between Roland and a tutor is poorly worked and is basically their as only a filler. This is quite a good concept and although it works well, starts to become a little predictable and tiresome towards the end of the film. The actual crime part of the storyline pales into insignificance as for the majority of the film it concentrates on the relationship between Roland and the cheerleaders. I'm not saying that this film is bad, as there are numerous scenes which capitalize on this scenario, none more than when they give him a make over, but it just isn't gut wrenching funny. The film has so much potential, with one of Hollywood's renowned tough guys stuck with a group of young girls, but sadly it fails to deliver on every opportunity. Well with the comedy, "Man of the House" starring Tommy Lee Jones, I was sure that this film was going to be enjoyable and I wasn't wrong, although I wouldn't say it was brilliant. So Sharp must now go undercover as an assistant cheerleading coach and move in with the young women to protect them. The only witnesses to the crime are a group of 5 university cheerleaders who could now be under threat from the crime boss. When his partner gets shot and an FBI agent gets wounded, things go horribly wrong. Both Jones and De Niro are too good to have such mediocrity be the capstones of their careers.Hard nosed Texas Ranger, Roland Sharp ( Tommy Lee Jones - The Hunted), is on the trail of a man who could provide enough evidence to bring down one of the countries big crime bosses. (His jiggles and the girls’ jiggles stand in marked contrast.) Jones, like Robert De Niro, has turned from drama to comedy in recent screen roles, and while that sometimes yields a very funny payoff, it is starting to look quite rote. Cedric the Entertainer has a tangential role, but one that allows him to show off his own cheerleading moves. A romance between English professor Molly McCarthy (Anne Archer) and Sharp is perfunctory at best, as the girls whisper moves to Sharp through a hidden earpiece. The girls are perky enough and Jones dependable enough to persevere in this thing despite the odds of its working out. And actually, this humor works better than it has any right to. They just want to move as quickly as possible to scenes of craggy Tommy Lee Jones waking up in a bathroom hanging with women’s undergarments or lamely posing undercover as an assistant cheerleading coach. The filmmakers seem wholly uninterested in the set-up that puts the story in motion.
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The movie does very little to set up the criminal activities that cause agent Roland Sharp (Jones) to move into a house with five cheerleaders after they inadvertently witness a murder. Perry and his mansion get cameos in this movie. Filmed here in Austin and on the UT campus (by director Herek, a former UT student), Man of the House has the feel of a home-grown affair, as lots of locations and businesses from Threadgill’s to Mangia Pizza are given their due in the storyline. The film’s relationship to Texas, however, is strong, and it’s likely to be warmly welcomed in the Lone Star State, where a goofy story about a Texas Ranger and the UT cheerleaders he is sworn to protect is what we like to watch anyway, albeit with a bit more football. Silly and implausible, Man of the House has a tenuous relationship with anything we recognize as the real world, even keeping in mind that this is a comedy and not a real cop drama.