Metascore
30 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 26
  2. Negative: 15 out of 26
  1. It's not to say that the adolescent humor isn't funny; some of it is hilarious. It's just that this movie lacks the overarching comic sensibility that made "Mary" and even Adam Sandler comedies like "Happy Gilmore" and "The Waterboy" so satisfying.
  2. If you buy the gross, it's surprisingly funny .
  3. Reviewed by: Joan Anderman
    63
    Schneider's mild-mannered fish-lover is genuinely likable, and a good-natured foil to the crude jokes.
  4. Surprisingly funny, a deep-down-good-hearted take on that oldest of comedy conventions, the ill-prepared rube caught up in a situation that somehow never gets the best of him.
  5. Reviewed by: Chris Hewitt
    63
    It's choppy and cheap-looking, and it has dead spots like the Sahara, but it also has a surprising number of genuinely funny bits, most of them slapsticky and gleefully rude.
  6. A considerable cut above the crop of recent features by other 'SNL' alums.
  7. The lowdown on Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Rob Schneider's first starring role, is that it is. Lowdown, that is.
  8. Reviewed by: Cody Clark
    50
    To paraphrase the movie's too-knowing tag line: It's not very funny. But when the lights go out -- it's still not very funny.
  9. Reviewed by: Steve Simels
    50
    It's actually a sweet, often very funny story about a schlemiehl redeemed by love.
  10. 50
    It's short, this movie, an attribute Sandler himself might take heed of, and if the teenagers in the back row are laughing harder and more often, you might at least find yourself smiling (guiltily) every few minutes.
  11. Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    40
    Rob Schneider's stab at an "Ace Ventura"-like gamble for stardom.
  12. 38
    I laughed, yes, I did, several times during Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. That's proof, if any is required, that I still possess streaks of immaturity and vulgarity.
  13. 38
    A pathetically dumb attempt to string a bunch of second-rate skits together like a garland of rotten cranberries.
  14. Reviewed by: Mike Mitchell
    35
    The kind of surprising giggles that make you wonder why you're laughing--- that's worth a few bucks.
  15. Only the innate sweetness of both its lead character and its base premise keeps you from wanting to slap Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo upside its mangy, empty head.
  16. 30
    After loosening us up with some irresistible shtick that rigorously fulfills genre expectations, the movie subtly, systematically begins to break down familiar tropes in the depiction of attractiveness, attraction, and heterosexual courtship.
  17. 25
    Custom-designed for 13 year-olds, laden with broad sight gags, gross sound effects and a bowlful of potty jokes.
  18. 25
    He's (Sandler) trying to clone himself by supporting his buddies in making low-budget, high-grossing -- in all senses of the word -- formula films just like his own.
  19. The jokes are unabashedly pitched at 12-year-old boys, with flatulence, masturbation and excretions as the leading themes.
  20. Just when you're sure that Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo can't get any less funny, the movie douses the trailer's best gag, as that prosthetic leg turns out to be attached to Deuce's true love.
  21. 20
    Mitchell's film would be another example of why former SNL cast members should choose their scripts wisely, except that Schneider wrote this one.
  22. Juvenile comedy targets a gallery of imperfect women.
  23. Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    20
    A sign that the Sandler comedy empire is expanding and reaching new depths of pure gross-out stupidity.
  24. 16
    It's as sullying and disheartening an experience as the movies can offer .
  25. An insufferably insipid comedy with a cruel subtext.
  26. A little Disney Christmas release that comes wrapped in used toilet paper.
User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 23 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Negative: 3 out of 10
  1. 3
    Rob Schneider, I don't care if you are friends with Adam Sandler, there are many more comedians more deserving (and more funny) to have the their own movie than you. Full Review »
  2. Just genious . Full Review »
  3. BenJ.
    7
    Hur hur hur - funny! The sort of movie that is great if you don't expect anything from a movie but easy humor that you can watch while also surfing the net. Full Review »