Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo makes There's Something About Mary look like Masterpiece Theatre.
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:17
Rotten:55
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: According to critics, Deuce Bigalow is just too dumb and filled with old, tired gags.
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Rob Schneider is Deuce Bigalow, a bumbling fish tank cleaner. When Antoine, a successful gigolo with a sick fish, has to leave the country for a few weeks, he offers Deuce the opportunity to... Rob Schneider is Deuce Bigalow, a bumbling fish tank cleaner. When Antoine, a successful gigolo with a sick fish, has to leave the country for a few weeks, he offers Deuce the opportunity to housesit for him. Predictably, Deuce manages to trash the place and must enlist the aid of pimp TJ (Eddie Griffin) to help him pay for the damages. TJ turns him, in a series of absurd preparations, into a prostitute. The subsequent encounters with self-conscious females provide the film with its biggest laughs, and eventual moral: enable a woman to feel confident about herself and she will learn to love you no matter what you look like. [More]
Starring: Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Gail O'Grady
Starring: Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Gail O'Grady, Oded Fehr, Arija Bareikis, Richard Riehle, Chi Chi La Rue
Director: Mike Mitchell
Director: Mike Mitchell
Screenwriter: Rob Schneider, Harris Goldberg
Producer: Barry Bernardi, Sidney Ganis
Composer: Teddy Castellucci
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Jun 20, 2000
Reviews for Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
The problem with Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo is the low level of its low humor.
The problem is that Schneider restores to using situations will very bland, stereotypical characterization that only work for about five to ten minutes.
The story of a schmo who finds love by prostituting himself is actually funnier than it deserves to be, not to mention rather sweet in a sophomoric, manwhore - with - a - heart - of - gold kind of way.
My biggest complaint about Adam Sandler has always been that he is lazy. His movies read like they were ad-libbed during an all-night beer bash.
Rob Schneider certainly has what it takes to play a doofy, soft-bodied poseur hustler, but this dim farce makes the mistake of setting him up with a series of tricks even lowlier and more pathetic than he is.
The good news is Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, an insufferably insipid comedy with a cruel subtext, is only 84 minutes long.
The kind of picture those View n' Brew theaters were made for, as long as you don't View.
Rob Schneider, its star, and Adam Sandler, its producer, keep finding new and wondrous answers to that limbo stick question, 'How low can you go?'
The teenage boys say 'ewww' and the teenage girls say 'awww,' and you've recouped your $8 million in no time.
Deuce Bigalow, like the SNL routines it models itself after, starts off funny but doesn't know when to end.
Was it ever funny? I think I laughed once, but, for the life of me, I can't remember why.
What in heaven's name were the geniuses at Disney thinking when they green-lighted this moronic, mean-spirited excuse for a comedy?
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