The soundtrack to the mistaken-identity comedy Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo features an eclectic collection of tunes, including Kyu Sakamoto's 'Suki Yaki,' Cornershop's 'Brimful Of Asha,' Emilia's cover of Blondie's 'Call Me,' Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On' and Robert Palmer's 'Simply.

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo is a 1999 American sex comedy film directed by Mike Mitchell in his directorial debut, written by Harris Goldberg and Rob Schneider, and starring Schneider as a hapless fishtank cleaner who goes into business as a male prostitute in an attempt to earn enough money to repair damage he caused while house-sitting. It was the first film released by Happy Madison Productions.

Released on December 10, 1999, the film grossed $92 million worldwide on a $17 million budget despite negative reviews from critics.^[2] A sequel, titled Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, was released in 2005.

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Plot[edit]

Deuce Bigalow, an insecure fishtank cleaner (aquarist), is fired for cleaning the tank at a public aquarium in the nude. Deuce is unsuccessful in attracting women, so he attempts to keep himself busy at work. On a house call, he meets an Argentinean male prostitute Antoine Laconte. Antoine is going on a business trip, and so asks Deuce to care for his sick lionfish and protect his home while he is away. Deuce accidentally sets Antoine's kitchen on fire when trying to make a grilled cheese sandwich in the toaster, and breaks an expensive fish tank.

Fearing Antoine will kill him, Deuce is forced to find a way to pay $6,000 for the damage. Low-rent pimp T.J. Hicks offers to help Deuce make enough money to buy a new fish tank, and convinces Deuce to take over the absent Antoine's role as a gigolo. Deuce decides to make the clients feel better about themselves, since he only desires to have sex with beautiful women.

Deuce meets unusual clients but he still manages to get along with them, despite there being no sex involved, by helping them with certain issues in their lives. The clients include Carol, a woman who is severely narcoleptic; Ruth, who has Tourette Syndrome with coprolalia, and therefore is afraid of socializing; Fluisa, an obese woman weighing close to 750 pounds; and Tina, a woman that has a pituitary gland disorder and is extremely tall. Deuce's list of clients gradually increases, with each client being satisfied by much more fulfilling measures due to his personal attention and friendship. However, Deuce falls in love with one of his clients, Kate (Arija Bareikis), who has a prosthetic leg. She later breaks up with Deuce when she finds out that he was a prostitute hired by her friends.

Meanwhile, Deuce is being stalked by Detective Chuck Fowler, who demands Antoine's 'black book' of clients and threatens to take Deuce to jail if he does not comply. Deuce eventually helps Fowler please his wife by stripping and erotically dancing for her, and the two make amends. Deuce is still taken into custody on prostitution charges, as Fowler needs someone to bring in and Deuce's own refusal to betray his newfound friend, T.J., by turning him in. At the hearing, it is revealed that Deuce never slept with any of the clients except for Kate. Since Deuce gave back the money to Kate and was not paid for sex with her, he is cleared of all charges.

Using the money he made, Deuce restores Antoine's fish tank, although due to time constraints he is warned that the glass may not be installed properly. Unfortunately, Kate's blind roommate accidentally kills the prize fish in Antoine's aquarium when she starts the mixer in which the fish was being kept. Deuce buys a replacement fish and returns to Antoine's house just in time. Antoine is suspicious, but cannot figure out why. He taps the new aquarium and the glass shatters. Deuce then reveals his prostituting adventures to the furious Antoine. Enraged, Antoine tries to kill Deuce, and at one point shoots a crossbow bolt at him. The aforementioned overweight client, Fluisa, shows up, comes between the two men, and saves Deuce's life (she is not killed because the bolt hits her breasts, between which she has hidden a roast chicken). Antoine is then arrested by Detective Fowler, and Deuce marries Kate. The end sequences continues to follow the epilogue. Deuce's father becomes a male prostitute. Fluisa underwent extensive liposuction and became a model in Victoria's Secret known as Naomi. Ruth opens up an all girls school for people with Tourette's. Carol manages to fulfill her dream trip to France. T.J. starts his own reality show dedicated to his experiences as a male prostitute, and an incarcerated Antoine marries Tina.

Cast[edit]

• Rob Schneider as Deuce Bigalow
• William Forsythe as Detective Charles 'Chuck' Fowler
• Eddie Griffin as Tiberius Jefferson 'T.J.' Hicks
• Arija Bareikis as Kate
• Oded Fehr as Antoine Laconte
• Gail O'Grady as Claire
• Richard Riehle as Robert 'Bob' Bigalow
• Jacqueline Obradors as Elaine Fowler
• Big Boy as Fluisa aka Jabba
• Amy Poehler as Ruth
• Torsten Voges as Tina
• Bree Turner as Allison
• Andrew Shaifer as Neil
• Allen Covert as Vic
• Norm Macdonald as bartender
• Elle King as Cookie Girl
• Adam Sandler (voice) as Offscreen passerby

Production[edit]

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo is the first film released by the Happy Madison Productions film production company. Adam Sandler served as the film's executive producer. Sandler also shouted the insults 'Freak!' and other offscreen lines.

Soundtrack[edit]

1. 'Call Me' - Blondie
2. 'Spill the Wine' - Eric Burdon and War
3. 'You Sexy Thing' - Hot Chocolate
4. 'Get Down Tonight' - KC and the Sunshine Band
5. 'Let's Get It On' - Marvin Gaye
6. 'I'm Not in Love' - 10cc
7. 'Magnet and Steel' - Walter Egan
8. 'No Worries' - Hepcat
9. 'Can't Smile Without You' - Sean Beal
10. 'Lift Me Up' - Jeff Lynne
11. 'Call Me' - Emilia Maiello

Release[edit]

Box office[edit]

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo opened theatrically on December 10, 1999 in 2,154 venues and earned $12,224,016 in its opening weekend, ranking third in the North American box office behind Toy Story 2's fourth weekend and fellow newcomer The Green Mile.^[3] The film ended its run, having grossed $65,538,755 in the United States and Canada, and $27,400,000 overseas for a worldwide total of $92,938,755. Based on a $17 million budget, the film was a box office success.^[2]

Critical reception[edit]

The film received negative reviews from critics. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 22% score based on 76 reviews, with an average rating of 4.01/10. The site's consensus states: 'According to critics, Deuce Bigalow is just too dumb and filled with old, tired gags.'^[4]Metacritic reports a 30 out of 100 rating based on 26 critics, indicating 'generally unfavorable reviews'.^[5] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B.^[6]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one-and-a-half out of four stars, stating 'It's the kind of picture those View n' Brew theaters were made for, as long as you don't View.'^[7] Kendall Morgan from The Dallas Morning News writes in her review, 'Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo makes There's Something About Mary look like Masterpiece Theatre.'^[8]

Sequel[edit]

In 2005, a sequel, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, was released by Columbia Pictures instead of Touchstone Pictures.

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References[edit]

1. ^'DEUCE BIGALOW: MALE GIGOLO (15)'. British Board of Film Classification. March 9, 2000. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
2. ^ ^abcd'Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)'. Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
3. ^'Weekend Box Office Results for December 10-12, 1999'. Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. December 13, 1999. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
4. ^'Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
5. ^'Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
6. ^https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ DEUCE BIGALOW: MALE GIGOLO (1999) B] CinemaScore
7. ^'Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo Movie Review (1999)'. Roger Ebert. Chicago Sun-Times. December 10, 1999. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
8. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on April 14, 2000. Retrieved March 25, 2019.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)

External links[edit]

• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo on IMDb
• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo at Box Office Mojo
• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo at Rotten Tomatoes
• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo at Metacritic

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo is a 2005 American sex comedy film and a sequel to the 1999 film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, from Happy Madison Productions. Rob Schneider returns in the role of male prostitute Deuce Bigalow who visits his former pimp T.J. (Eddie Griffin) in Amsterdam, and then finds himself looking for a murderer who is killing the greatest 'man-whores' of Europe. Unlike Male Gigolo, distributed by Disney'sTouchstone Pictures brand, European Gigolo was released by Sony'sColumbia Pictures.

The film was panned by critics but grossed $45 million on a $22 million budget and was runner up at the 26th Golden Raspberry Awards for worst picture while Rob Schneider achieved the booby prize for worst actor.

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Plot[edit]

Gigolos in Europe are being terrorized by a serial killer. In Malibu, Deuce Bigalow's wife Kate has died from a shark attack, and Deuce is invited by his former pimp T.J. Hicks to Amsterdam. Deuce goes to take his mind off of Kate.

After T.J. shows Deuce his boat, or 'float crib,' the pair go to a coffee shop where they get high and bump into Heinz Hummer, a German gigolo. After leaving the coffee shop, Deuce finds Hummer dead in an alley, but thinks he is merely stoned and takes the dead gigolo to T.J.'s float crib; when T.J. gets back, he immediately realizes that Hummer is dead. T.J. plans to dump the body, but skeptical of Hummer's reputation of being well-endowed, unzips his pants and examines his genitalia and is caught by a tour boat.

Upon his release from the police station, Deuce finds T.J. at a restaurant and recalls that he saw the killer walking away from Hummer's body. Deuce says it was a woman, so they both figure it was a she-john, a former client of the murdered gigolo. T.J. convinces Deuce to find the killer by becoming a gigolo again, visiting the former clients and 'rooting' out the killer. They attend a meeting of the Royal Order of European Man Whores, but fail to procure a list of the clients.

Deuce and T.J. visit the first client on the list. While Deuce distracts the woman, T.J. breaks into her residence and finds a brand of lipstick which might be the kind found on all the victims. After leaving, Deuce finds Gaspar on the street and shows him the lipstick. Gaspar throws the lipstick in the trash, mentioning that the lipstick found on the victims 'is a very rare one: Lavender Love #66'. As Gaspar enters the police station, his niece, Eva, approaches him and gives him his lunch. Eva slaps herself three times when Gaspar sneezes. Deuce helps her pick up the things she dropped, and Eva explains to Deuce that she has obsessive-compulsive disorder. Deuce sees that she has a painting of a fish, so they go to the Amsterdam aquarium together. Deuce continues to investigate different women from Antoine's book.

Deuce rides with Gaspar to the Man-Whore Awards Ceremony under the guise of protecting the man-whores. Gaspar pulls a gun on Deuce and tells him that he was once a man-whore hopeful. While Gaspar was observing a demonstration on how to perform a certain sex act, one of his classmates offered to let him use his penis-enlargement pump. When the demonstration ended, Gaspar was horrified the demonstration was his fiancée. Gaspar was so angry and shocked that he continued to pump until his penis exploded, causing the other men to laugh at him. He blames man-whores for the loss of his fiancée and his penis, and plans to kill them all at their awards ceremony.

At the ceremony, Deuce evacuates the building and gets into a sword fight with Gaspar, during which he mentions the other romantic ways of pleasing a woman; his words move the ladies in the crowd and the male gigolos. Gaspar beats Deuce, but before he can detonate the bomb, a woman with a penis for a nose and the woman with the tracheotomy distract Gaspar. Deuce knocks out Gaspar with a trophy taking the bomb detonator. For his bravery, Deuce is given the Golden Boner award. He shares a passionate kiss with Eva, and accidentally sets off the bomb when the statue's penis bumps the detonator button. Deuce and Eva leave the scene. The following day, Deuce and Eva come to pick up T.J., who has been released from jail, and tells them that he is entering a brand new prostitution market: gay man-whoring.

In an epilogue: T.J. stops gay man-whoring and becomes a rapper. Deuce and Eva got married with Eva being pregnant. Gaspar is gang raped in prison, and Kate's prosthetic leg is turned into a bong by a woman without a leg.

Cast[edit]

• Rob Schneider as Deuce Bigalow
• Eddie Griffin as T.J. Hicks
• Hanna Verboom as Eva
• Jeroen Krabbé as Gaspar Voorsboch
• Douglas Sills as Chadsworth Buckingham III
• Charles Keating as Giancarlo
• Carlos Ponce as Rodrigo Bollas De Madera
• Rachel Stevens as Louisa, the Dirty Girl
• Alex Dimitriades as Enzo Giarraputo
• Kostas Sommer as Assapopoulos Mariolis
• Miranda Raison as Svetlana Revenko
• Til Schweiger as Heinz Hummer
• Oded Fehr as Antoine Laconte
• Zoe Telford as Lily
• Vincent Martella as Billy
• Bobbi Sue Luther as Newscaster
• Dana Goodman as Greta, the Hunchback Girl
• Skytriss as Sherrie Kane
• Julia Lea Wolov as The Big-Eared Girl
• Kelly Brook as Beautiful Woman in Painting
• Daan Schuurmans as Zucchini Gigolo
• Alex Zane as Man-Whore Awards reporter
• Johnny Vaughan as Man-Whore Award Host/Himself
• Norm MacDonald as Earl McManus (Uncredited)

The film also includes cameos by comedic actor Adam Sandler and actress Elisabetta Canalis. Wes Takahashi, former animator and visual effects supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic, makes a cameo appearance as a news reporter.^[2]

Production[edit]

Eddie Griffin verified in an interview that 'a really old stuffed cat' was used during the cat scene.^[3]

Disney rejected the R-rated sequel as inappropriate, compared to the PG-13 first film. The orphan sequel found a new home at Sony.^[4] Disney retains 5% of the box office gross.^[5] To promote the film Sony held a 'Man-Whore of the Year' contest with Maxim magazine in Las Vegas.^[4]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

The film grossed $9,626,287 on its opening weekend, ranking at #5 behind Four Brothers, The Skeleton Key, The Dukes of Hazzard, and Wedding Crashers. The film's opening weekend was lower than the first film's $12 million on its opening weekend. The movie closed its run with a gross of $22,400,154 in North America and $22,709,407 internationally for a total of $45,109,561. This was lower than the first film's final gross of $65,538,755 in North America and a worldwide total of $92,938,755.

Critical response[edit]

—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times^[6]

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 9% based on reviews from 99 critics, with an average rating of 2.81 out of 10.^[7] On Metacritic the film has a score of 23% based on reviews from 25 critics, indicating 'Generally unfavorable reviews'.^[8] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade C+.^[9]

Roger Ebert gave the film a rare 'zero star' rating, calling it 'aggressively bad, as if it wants to cause suffering to the audience', and describing it as 'completely beneath contempt' on his show Ebert & Roeper.^[6] He ranked it as the worst film of 2005, and ultimately included the movie in his most hated films list.^[10] Also on Ebert & Roeper, Richard Roeper called the film 'the cinematic equivalent of a bunch of 13-year-old boys in a locker room repeating dirty phrases they've just learned' and 'dead on arrival.'

Ebert also chastized Rob Schneider for his overly zealous defense of the series, referring to an incident in which Los Angeles Times critic Patrick Goldstein called Schneider a 'third-rate comic.' Schneider responded by calling Goldstein a 'third-rate, unfunny pompous reporter' in a full-page open letter published in Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. Schneider further claimed that Goldstein was unqualified to review the film since he was not a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Ebert, himself having won the Pulitzer Prize, took it upon himself to criticize Schneider in his own review.^[6] He ended the review with the quote 'Your movie sucks', which would later become the title of a book published by Ebert compiling reviews of films he had awarded below 2/4 stars.

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Ebert and Schneider ultimately settled their differences, and Schneider sent his well wishes to Ebert during his recovery from thyroid cancer. Ebert responded, 'Rob Schneider might (in my opinion) have made a bad movie. He is not a bad man.'^[11] After Ebert's death, in a letter to his widow Chaz, Schneider would admit that the situation caused him to 'reassess what pictures I really wanted to make.'^[12]

Accolades[edit]

The film was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Remake or Sequel and Worst Screen Couple (Rob Schneider and his diapers) with Schneider winning Worst Actor.^[13]

References[edit]

1. ^Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at Box Office Mojo
2. ^'Subject: Wes Ford Takahashi'. Animators' Hall of Fame. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
3. ^Fischer, Paul (10 August 2005). 'Interview: Eddie Griffin for 'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo''. Dark Horizons. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
4. ^ ^abhttps://variety.com/2005/film/news/deuce-is-too-wild-for-mouse-1117926756/
5. ^https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/deuce-wild-in-sony-sequel-1117900762/
6. ^ ^abcRoger Ebert (2005-08-12). 'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'. rogerebert.suntimes.com. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
7. ^Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at Rotten Tomatoes
8. ^https://www.metacritic.com/movie/deuce-bigalow-european-gigolo
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10. ^Roger Ebert (2005-08-11). 'Ebert's Most Hated'. rogerebert.suntimes.com. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
11. ^'A bouquet arrives'. Chicago Sun-Times.
12. ^Ebert, Chaz. 'ONE ACT OF KINDNESS: ROB SCHNEIDER AND ROGER'. Rogerebert.com. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
13. ^'Tom Cruise Beats 4 Others (Including Himself) to Be RAZZIES©' Most Tiresome Tabloid Target of 2005''. Press release. Archived from the original on 2006-03-25.

External links[edit]

• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at AllMovie
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at Box Office Mojo
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo on IMDb
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at Metacritic
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at Rotten Tomatoes