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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 23 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
2.0 out of 10
based on 25 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for pervasive strong, crude and sexual humor, language, nudity and drug content

Starring Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin, Jeroen Krabbé, Til Schweiger, and Hanna Verboom

In Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Rob Schneider is seduced back to his unlikely pleasure-for-pay profession, when his former pimp T.J. Hicks (Griffin) is implicated in the murders of Europe's greatest gigolos. Deuce must go back to work in order to clear his good friend's name. Along the way, he must compete against the powerful European Union of prosti-dudes and court another bevy of abnormal female clients including the beautiful Eva, who suffers from acute obsessive-compulsive disorder. (Sony)


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Rob Schneider (also story and characters)
David Garrett
Jason Ward
Harris Goldberg (characters)
 
DIRECTED BY: Mike Bigelow  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: November 29, 2005 
Theatrical: August 12, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 77 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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60
Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
Definitely merits its R rating with a fearless approach that will earn genuine laughs as it turns a few stomachs. Yes, a Rob Schneider movie that's funny. Strange but true.
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60
LA Weekly Scott Foundas
As before, there are moments, when Schneider is turned loose to do his anything-goes, creepy-funny shtick, that are crudely inspired.
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60
Empire Chris Hewitt
The Godfather II of manwhore sequels, this improves upon the original in every way. Especially if you're drunk.
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58
Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown
While sloppier than the sloppiest of seconds, is laudable in one important regard: Its obsession with the male body.
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50
The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Every bit as vulgar, sophomoric and thoroughly tasteless as 1999's Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. But what is most annoying is the sequel's capability of inducing laughter even as one hates oneself for so easily succumbing to the total silliness of it all.
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50
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Director Mike Bigelow maintains a mercifully swift pace, and while the film's humor is deliberately as crass as humanly possible, it is not truly mean-spirited, even though Amsterdam is depicted as a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.
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50
USA Today Claudia Puig
Amazingly, amidst the smutty silliness, there are some laughs.
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50
Chicago Reader Joshua Katzman
Penis jokes fly fast and furious, and while they're hit-or-miss they're occasionally very funny. Schneider always plays a variation of the same put-upon schlemiel, a formula that worked fine for, well, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.
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38
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
You don't have to rise very high to get above the level of these gags.
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38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
In the worst scenes in Deuce Bigalow: European Bigalow, it's as if Schneider and Co. are straining to invent new taboos just so they can break them, a strategy that provokes more confused silence than laughter.
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30
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
What's perhaps most surprising about European Gigolo is its reactionary streak, exemplified by knee-jerk attacks on Europe's equally knee-jerk anti-Americanism. Then again, that seems fitting. The sequel functions as the ultimate Ugly American, good for a few cheap, vulgar laughs and nothing else.
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30
The New York Times Janet Maslin
There is an essential meanness to the entire project, tapping the manipulative power of taunts. Such jokes don't jibe with the times, the culture.
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30
Variety Robert Koehler
Rude, crude and, uh, cosmopolitan, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo waves the flag for R-rated politically incorrect studio comedy but doesn't top the laugh ratio of the first Deuce misadventure.
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30
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
It's not Deuce's satisfied clientele, but the audience, that gets the shaft.
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25
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The director is first-timer Mike Bigelow. Nothing's paced or shaped for maximum payoff; the shooting and editing rhythms add only clutter and noise, and the slapstick is strictly of the skull-banging, ear-splitting variety.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
At times, "European Gigolo" feels more like an international incident than a movie.
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25
Premiere Aaron Hillis
Not to chastise the movie for simply being rude or crude -- since "The Wedding Crashers" proved that hormone-raging '80s throwbacks can still be harmless fun -- but this contemptible sex-com redux should be taken to task for how its infantilized yucks give license to entertaining closed-minded acceptances of very real human ugliness.
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20
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
This bare-bones plot is merely an excuse to string together a series of gross-out jokes involving bodily fluids, private parts, food and genetic deformities.
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12
Boston Globe Janice Page
If all the first "Deuce" had going for it was a regular-guy approach to over-the-top humor, that's completely absent in this follow-up.
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0
Miami Herald Peter Debruge
The way I see it, anyone who's made up his mind to see Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo deserves everything they've got coming to them, and with any luck, they might even enjoy the movie's willfully offensive gutter humor.
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0
New York Post Lou Lumenick
A vile and laughless follow-up to Schneider's 1999 hit.
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0
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.
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0
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Not that there are any actual jokes to be had. The film simply jumps to the punch lines, a non-stop barrage of crude dialogue and vulgar sight gags that passes as humor among adolescent boys. Who exactly is the audience for this R-rated film? The terminally immature?
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0
Village Voice Staff (Not credited)
It's an unimaginative, mean-spirited gross-out that forgot to bring the funny.
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0
Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
Not content to merely be lowbrow and stupid – there's room in the world for lowbrow and stupid mass entertainment – the film is pushy and might actually cause chafing.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 2.0 (out of 10) based on 71 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jack S gave it a1:
A boring, unfunny piece of crap. The first movie was not too bad, but it did not need a sequel. This movie proves that it is so.

Jim G. gave it a3:
Seems there will always be a place for someone to make us laugh at (with?) stereotypes -- as long as we know the jokes are presented with self-awareness rather than spite. Evaluated based on artistic merit and contribution to intellectual curiosity -- 0; Evaluated on delivering what it promises (or what the informed viewer would expect) -- 6. So, hey, let's split the difference.

mike w gave it a0:
pathetic, tasteless, just plain poor. a low point for Rob Schneider who i actually think can be quite funny, but the material he had to work with here was junk even for Deuce Bigalow standards. deserved to be endlessly mocked and made an example of for ripping off fans trying to cash in on the first movie. a disgusting effort.

wendy s. gave it a0:
ohmigod. i can't believe this ever even got made. off the grid horrible. totally wrong and not in a funny way at all.

Tommy B gave it a0:
Agreed. This has to be the worst sequel of 2005, if not the last few years. So unfunny I wanted to scream, so boring I didn't have the energy to, so crappy I wanted poop on it.

Adina M gave it a0:
Laborious to even sit through. Total trash. Has earned film history infamy as shining example of why most sequels are a waste of film.

F Rutgers gave it a0:
Has to be the worst, phoned in sequel in years. Looks like they wrote it and shot it in a weekend.

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