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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) Sony Pictures Entertainment
1 hr. 17 mins.
Starring: Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin, Jean Reno, Til Schweiger, Jeroen Krabbe
Directed by: Mike Bigelow

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

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E-MAIL FRANK OCHIENG

Photo: Sony Pictures Entertainment

They certainly don’t make appetizing gross-out comedies like they used to, right? Well, America’s favorite hapless he-whore Deuce Bigalow is back to romancing the assortment of freaks and geeks that makes up his weird world in the disdaining dud Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. Comic Rob Schneider hastily decided to dust off his pipsqueak male prostitute persona and mine all the absurd and cheapened laughs for what it’s worth. Routinely laced with mean-spirited and sophomoric sexual slapstick with all the trivial charm of a sloppy hickey on the neck, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo is nothing but an extended dirty joke looking for perverse praise and attention.

When Schneider first appeared as the runt-sized Romeo in 1999’s Deuce Bigalow: Male Prostitute, there was an inexplicable appeal to the toilet humor that was somewhat inspired in its twisted tendencies. The on-going gag of an everyday dweeb forced to sell his sexual services to lonely-hearted misfits to financially keep his head above water was inherently funny at first. Granted Schneider’s Deuce proudly shuffled the bottom of the deck with outlandish sight gags although the comedy was as callous as falling face first into a bathroom urinal. However, the second time around for this klutzy Cassanova finds the same recycled foolishness drenched in a repetitive raunchiness that is neither wickedly funny or productively naughty.

After causing the ruckus involving seemingly playful dolphins to attack a group of sightless elderly swimmers in the water, Deuce Bigalow is forced to leave the country immediately. Luckily, Deuce decided to pay a visit to his old buddy and former pimp T.J. (Eddie Griffin) who has relocated his flesh-selling business to Amsterdam. But soon some maniac is out on the loose killing the precious members of the Union of Prostidudes (yes, I kid you not) and the blame is being shifted to T.J. In order to save T.J.’s neck from the local Dutch law enforcement, Deuce must go undercover and return to his “man-whoring” duties to reveal the real crazed culprit.

Of course this sets up the tawdry chuckles where Deuce once again encounters a slew of female slogs looking to vie for his swinging and swaggering undivided attention. The tasteless presentation of serving up disfigured and dysfunctional dames for Deuce to seduce with trepidation isn’t hilarious by any stretch of the imagination. On the contrary, it’s heartless and derogatory and the movie’s political incorrectness is woefully infantile at best. And to make Deuce Bigalow somewhat sympathetic, they saddle him with an obsessive-compulsive disorder love interest named Hanna Verboom.

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo is notoriously affiliated with Schneider’s ex-Saturday Night Live chum Adam Sandler’s movie production company. Since the tandem managed to squeeze manic mileage out of the Deuce Bigalow outrageous movie machine some six years ago, why not capitalize and super size the nonsensical nuttiness for today’s climate? Nothing is off limits with this lewd and lowbrow display in European Gigolo. Schneider, along with co-writers Jason Ward and David Garrett, must have scribbled their script with a thick crayon. The endless barrage of sick-minded racial stereotypes, dwarf-tossing, and pokes at mental illness and the crippled all make for some scabrous entertainment at its worst. In fact, one might want to take a shower after a single viewing of this corrosive comedy of errors.

Schneider can be hysterical in the right amount of dosages but his act wears thin as the unlikely studmuffin straining for bellyaching chuckles in this maligned piece of mockery. Griffin was universally riotous as Deuce’s pimping pal in the original outing but his T.J. barely musters up anything that’s memorable in European Gigolo. And Jeroen Krabbe (The Fugitive) is severely wasted as the police detective out to hunt down the gigolo-killing psycho.

Whether you get an odd kick out of watching Deuce embrace his late wife’s artificial leg or endure the string of body fluid references that shamelessly flow throughout this infested laugher, here’s hoping that this pin-headed playboy kisses one last deformed client (preferably one with a live hand grenade attached to her navel).

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Frank Ochieng
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