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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment
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FILM:
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
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Rob Schneider (also story and characters)
David Garrett
Jason Ward
Harris Goldberg (characters)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Mike Bigelow
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 29, 2005
Theatrical: August 12, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
77 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.

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.

60
Empire
Chris Hewitt
The Godfather II of manwhore sequels, this improves upon the original in every way. Especially if you're drunk.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
While sloppier than the sloppiest of seconds, is laudable in one important regard: Its obsession with the male body.

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.

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.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Amazingly, amidst the smutty silliness, there are some laughs.

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.

38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
You don't have to rise very high to get above the level of these gags.

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.

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.

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.

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.

30
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It's not Deuce's satisfied clientele, but the audience, that gets the shaft.

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.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
At times, "European Gigolo" feels more like an international incident than a movie.

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.

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.

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.

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.

0
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A vile and laughless follow-up to Schneider's 1999 hit.

0
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.

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?

0
Village Voice
Staff (Not credited)
It's an unimaginative, mean-spirited gross-out that forgot to bring the funny.

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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