DEUCE BIGALOW: MALE GIGOLO (1999)
Reviewed by Jerry Saravia
Original review from 2002
To describe "Deuce Bigalow" as childish, immature and an affront to all sensibilities is to lose sight of its intent. If it had succeeded in being all the above, it might have been a minor comedy hit. The problem with "Deuce Bigalow" is that it assumes tastelessness by its own virtue is funny. It is not.
Rob Schneider is Deuce, a fish tank cleaner who wants to score with some babelicious babes. He tries a female employee at a pet fish store but only in succeeds in getting a glimpse of her cleavage, unbeknownst to her. One fine day, while cleaning some gigolo's pool, he gets a job keeping watch of the gigolo's house and his prized fish. Deuce eventually finds himself in the enviable (or unenviable) position of being a gigolo, sometimes for a fee as low as ten dollars! The only major joke in this debacle is that he can barely afford a drink at a high-class bar with ten dollars. Hold the presses.
Meanwhile, we are subjected to jokes of rampant stupidity. Obesity, Tourette Syndrome, eating food in chlorine water, urinating in pools, cleaning feces in bathrooms are but a few samples of what passes for
humor. All these subjects could be funny if any humor was injected into them - they are not automatically funny by definition. I suspect many will determine the outcome of this movie within the first few minutes. What I didn't expect was to see a highly uncharismatic star like Schneider trying to one-up his mannerisms and incessant mugging. He is so grating that he gives new meaning to the phrase "a new low in the annals of comedy." To be fair, he has one solidly funny moment, just one. He has a moment where he gapes when he finds that the new love of his life has an artificial leg. This pretty much sums up the dreadful movie experience known as "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo."
humor. All these subjects could be funny if any humor was injected into them - they are not automatically funny by definition. I suspect many will determine the outcome of this movie within the first few minutes. What I didn't expect was to see a highly uncharismatic star like Schneider trying to one-up his mannerisms and incessant mugging. He is so grating that he gives new meaning to the phrase "a new low in the annals of comedy." To be fair, he has one solidly funny moment, just one. He has a moment where he gapes when he finds that the new love of his life has an artificial leg. This pretty much sums up the dreadful movie experience known as "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo."
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