Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

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.

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.

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.

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.

Film.com Tom Keogh

Rob Schneider's stab at an "Ace Ventura"-like gamble for stardom.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

Juvenile comedy targets a gallery of imperfect women.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

It's as sullying and disheartening an experience as the movies can offer .

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

An insufferably insipid comedy with a cruel subtext.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

A little Disney Christmas release that comes wrapped in used toilet paper.