A few years before this, the prolific director Blake Edwards made a movie called The Man Who Loved Women. It would have exactly fitted this one, too, with John Ritter as a compulsive womaniser and all-round pain-in-the butt. The film's a bit of a pain, too, although its overall tedium is lightened by a couple of very funny scenes, including one outrageous sequence involving luminous condoms, and another in which Ritter accidentally sits on his hated mother-in-law's pet dog. Alas, his character plays too much of a one-note samba to appeal to audience sympathy for long. And Alyson Reed is dull as the wife he's trying to win back. Interesting, though, to see veterans Vincent Gardenia, Don Gordon, Nina Foch and Michael Kidd in the supporting cast. Just about watchable.


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