| 60 |
Dallas Observer
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
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
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
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
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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Los Angeles Times
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
At times, "European Gigolo" feels more like an international incident than a movie.
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| 25 |
Premiere
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
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
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
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
A vile and laughless follow-up to Schneider's 1999 hit.
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| 0 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.
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| 0 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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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Austin Chronicle
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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