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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
EMAILPRINTBuena Vista Pictures

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 26 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 12 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Harris Goldberg
Rob Schneider
Directed by: Mike Mitchell
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 10, 1999
DVD: June 19, 2000
Running Time: 88 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for sexual content, language and crude humor
Starring Rob Schneider, Norm Macdonald, Arija Bareikis, Allen Covert, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis, Oded Fehr, and Gail O'Grady
A fish tank cleaner (Schneider) becomes a male gigolo after being mistaken for one while housesitting a male gigolo's house.
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What The Critics Said
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...
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
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.
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
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.
San Francisco Examiner G. Allen Johnson
If you buy the gross, it's surprisingly funny .
Boston Globe Joan Anderman
Schneider's mild-mannered fish-lover is genuinely likable, and a good-natured foil to the crude jokes.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Chris Hewitt
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.
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
A considerable cut above the crop of recent features by other 'SNL' alums.
Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
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.
TV Guide Steve Simels
It's actually a sweet, often very funny story about a schlemiehl redeemed by love.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
The lowdown on Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Rob Schneider's first starring role, is that it is. Lowdown, that is.
Read Full Review >Film.com Tom Keogh
Rob Schneider's stab at an "Ace Ventura"-like gamble for stardom.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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.
Read Full Review >USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
A pathetically dumb attempt to string a bunch of second-rate skits together like a garland of rotten cranberries.
TNT RoughCut Mike Mitchell
The kind of surprising giggles that make you wonder why you're laughing--- that's worth a few bucks.
Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
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.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
The jokes are unabashedly pitched at 12-year-old boys, with flatulence, masturbation and excretions as the leading themes.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
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.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Sara Wildberger
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.
Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
Custom-designed for 13 year-olds, laden with broad sight gags, gross sound effects and a bowlful of potty jokes.
Variety Robert Koehler
A sign that the Sandler comedy empire is expanding and reaching new depths of pure gross-out stupidity.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Mitchell's film would be another example of why former SNL cast members should choose their scripts wisely, except that Schneider wrote this one.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder
Juvenile comedy targets a gallery of imperfect women.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
It's as sullying and disheartening an experience as the movies can offer .
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
An insufferably insipid comedy with a cruel subtext.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
A little Disney Christmas release that comes wrapped in used toilet paper.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Ben J. gave it a7:
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.
Balzac gave it a0:
Would probably rank as one of the all time worst movies, if it weren't for its sequel.
Mark A. gave it a10:
Ignore the square reviewers - they must be glum booring people that need to relax and learn to enjoy a good funny film! This is a laugh a minute film and I would reccomend it to any bloke - and some women, although my wife seemed to think it was in poor taste! That has got to be a selling feature !!!
Andrew M gave it a7:
Others may relate to this - Deuce Bigalow is the type of film that I'd normally never watch. It's a genre that, though sometimes capable of being riotously entertaining, houses some of the worst pieces of cinematic work (s..t) ever made. And being a betting man, if pushed, I would have had a lazy hundred on DB slotting in comfortably with that lot. So naturally I did not seek this movie out and never would have - but, somehow, it found me - and I now know I would have lost that hundred bucks! This is a funny film. Certainly a crude, inane film with no enriching messages to give - but also plain funny. It has character (albeit low-type), charisma and a handful of decent gags, making it unexpectedly watchable, if not entertaining. I saw it on television recently during one of those nights one has where you fumble about aimlessly until something holds your interest long enough to carry you to bed time; as I said, it found me. For the first hour I sat, remote control primed and aimed, fully expecting to be bored and/or turned off within minutes, for those reasons stated above. Instead, I smiled, then laughed, then cared, and stayed, and in the end was won over by a frivolous and immature film that sent me off to bed with a doofy grin on my face and very few cares in my head, except possibly the "how and why" of it all.
Pat C. gave it a 1:
Such an easy film to criticize. Hardly seems fair. As for redeeming qualities, they are overshadowed by the urge to kick the leading character in the nuts, but the suspicion is he doesn't have any. There is something in this film for every guy to laugh at, it's just that some of guys won't like who they see in the mirror the next morning. I have to give it a point because I was at least able to watch it from start to finish.
E. S. gave it a 7:
I love it. I had hangover when I watch it, but anyway it was so so so so suprising and made me really laugh. I recommend to everyone who doesn't know for sure what to watch and want to throw own brains in the closet for a while.
Jacques R. gave it an 8:
Surprisingly hillarious!! Rob Schneider is fresh, and the humor is sharp and fun. Heartwarming moral to the story as the he-bi*ch attempts to get out of his jam.
