Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

A light story with a somewhat uncommon basic premise, this movie serves us a decent developed story. The side complications with the daughter is nice because it doesn't take too much duration and serves as a nice ingredient to the mix, although it plays a part on the finale. It's nice to see this type of comedy once in a while. The jokes are average, although I must admit that some are indeed funny even to my self- proclaimed high standard. I personally liked some of the short dialog jokes, like when Sharp answers the man in the pool house when the man says he knows karate. The rest of the practical jokes are frankly not that funny though. The acting is quite decent for me. It's nice to see Tommy Lee Jones can handle being in-frame with younger actresses well. Although she has seen her prime age, adding Anne Archer here is indeed one nice move.

Because that's what it lacks... Remember all those annoying characters in Friday the 13-th you were happy to see dismembered in all the ways possible? Well they've come back with a vengeance in this movie at it's nothing worse than seeing annoying stereotypical cheerleaders being them-selves and being proud about it without any kind of payoff.If you absolutely have to watch this movie I would recommend putting on Friday the 13-th or Halloween just right after and imagine all those dumb faces on the victims - it works wonders...This movie fails as a comedy in too many departments to even try to mention them all and Tommy Lee Jones is the only redeemable factor in it, but even he can't do much with such a horrible script and supporting actors.NOT RECOMMENDED.

Tommy Lee Jones is a good and versatile actor. And somehow he always plays the same roles. Is that a bad thing? Well,in this case it isn't. The contrast between the cheerleaders and this cranky old Texas Ranger is as fun as can be expected. There are even moments where Jones shows his softer side. Jones romancing Anne Archer and him displaying fatherly feelings over the girls he has to protect. Quite the opposite of the role he had in "Double Jeopardy" where most of the time he was just cranky and grumpy. And there are scenes where you can feel the huge age gap between these teens and the old man. But this is done in such a subtle way that is was pretty hilarious. As a bonus there is some slapstick in the form of Cedric the Entertainer. And I don't know about you but he always makes me laugh. The action is downplayed in service of the comedy which is a good thing. Since too much action would have been too distracting. "Man of the House" is not set out to surprise you. It entertains nothing more nothing less.

Tommy Lee Jones is well cast and a positive presence in every movie, and all but one of the five cheerleaders are attractive, but MOTH is far too formulaic and predictable to be fulfilling viewing. Perhaps I'm too jaded, having seen far too many formula comedies, so maybe this is quite an entertaining film for 15 year-olds, and I don't mean this in a nasty way. Some of the gags and situations are so foreseeable that you can sniff them out a mile ahead.Nevertheless, a pleasant enough action comedy which would have been better without its obligatory DULL crime plot. Why does nearly every single movie have to have a cops-and-robbers (sub-)plot? So many of these writers are too lazy to write an all-out comedy, so they waste everyone's time with pointless crime stuff.The one cheerleader I didn't like was Vanessa Farlito, "Butterfly" in "Death Proof". What a damn mug! SPOILER coming up: Oh yeah, and the bad gay just happens to be an FBI agent... Yawn...