Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

Release Date: August 12, 2005
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Mike Bigelow
Screenwriter: Rob Schneider, David Garrett, Jason Ward
Starring: Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin, Jeroen Krabbé, Til Schweiger
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for pervasive strong crude and sexual humor, language, nudity and drug content)
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Plot Summary: 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, Deuce 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.

Reviewed by Peter Veugelaers © 2005
- Don't be deceived -- get out of cinema quick!

             I expected Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo to be a movie to r&r with, and marketed as a comedy maybe chortle a little. I was in that kind of mood. Well, there is not much to enjoy here and there are no laugh out loud moments. But I was amused, if being amused by silliness means that this movie could actually be a borderline case between being terrible and okay, if you consider smatterings of toilet humour feeling longer than the rosary a nice sideline from the daily grind. It might have been nice seeing Amsterdam as the butt of the joke if it weren’t so funny. Alas.

            Amsterdam jokes are fired blankly: cannabis cake eating and drug snorting in café’s and strip naked weather presenters on Dutch television offer potential but leave much to be desired. It is amusing, but obvious. Veteran Jeroen Krabbe (who has American movie credits stretching back to the 1970s and 80s) is the best of the performers playing it straight laced to effectively compliment the silliness of everything else. It could have been worse but the over-the-top comedy has been done much better in the past (ala Naked Gun, Marx Brothers comedies) and with the likes of Nutty Professor II: The Klumps and the Scary Movie franchise, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo indicate that these types of comedies need revitalizing.