Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)

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R | 1 hr 30 mins | Comedy | Released: 12/10/1999

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Here's the test to find out whether "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" is for
you. Did you laugh when Adam Sandler and the tyke in "Big Daddy" tripped
Rollerbladers into the pond? Was the bathroom incident in "There's
Something About Mary" a seminal moment in film history? Did "The
Waterboy" make it into your top 10 movies of the year? If the answer to
two out of three was affirmative, then "Deuce" could be right up your
alley.

If not, or if you're more responsive to the trailer for "The Cider House
Rules," then you should probably skip this lowbrow affair. It stars
Sandler's buddy and frequent co-star Rob Schneider as a fish tank
cleaner turned "man whore," and represents the first film from Sandler's
own Happy Madison Productions, a play on his two other frat-house hits,
"Happy Gilmore" and "Billy Madison."

By now, anyone who's seen a Sandler or Chris Farley film knows the
drill: Minimal plot, full of standard albeit winking cliches, lots of
cheap, bathroom humor and at least one or two genuinely hilarious sight
gags. This time, Schneider moves up to the starting line-up as a dopey
dude whose best chance of seeing some action is a trip to the local
goldfish store to watch the checkout girl get her chest wet dipping for
fish.

That's until a lucky run-in with rico suave hustler Antoine ("The
Mummy's" Oded Fehr), who leaves the witless hero in charge of his fish
and estate for three weeks. During the first few days, the hapless
wonder ends up destroying the place while attempting to exercise in his
underwear. The visual of Schneider splayed mid-air between ceiling and
fish tank, unsuccessfully balancing between the two, is one of the
funnier gags in the trailer and the movie.

Since it costs more to fix the temperamental gigolo's aquarium than his
fish-cleaning duties will provide, Deuce comes up with the brilliant
idea to try male hustling on the side. He's aided in his quest by a
wise-cracking "man pimp" (Eddie Griffin), whose most distinguished
characteristic is a penchant for dropping various food in hot tubs,
scooping it up and eating it.

The humor rolls downhill from there. Deuce's clientele includes a
bed-ridden behemoth, a 10-foot tall giant, a gal unable to control her
obscenities and a woman suffering narcolepsy. At one point, the latter
falls asleep in mid-swing at a bowling alley, before later napping at
the top of a staircase.

By the time Deuce is set up with the seemingly normal, bright and
beautiful Kate (likable Arija Bareikis), it's easy to predict where the
story is headed. Along the way to its happy conclusion at the 90-minute
mark, there's more fun to be had at the expense of an investigator
(William Forsythe) worried about the fallacies of his sexual instrument
and a toilet attendant who happens to be Deuce's dad.

The script, co-written by Schneider and Harris Goldberg, bears the
Sandler imprint all the way" Crass jokes and easy plot developments are
the guiding principle, with director Mike Mitchell keeping things moving
at a decent clip. It's all lewd and crude machismo, but unlike other
"Saturday Night Live" alum escapades such as the recent "Superstar," it
holds up well enough beyond sketch form.

No one will mistake "Deuce Bigalow" for "The English Patient." In terms
of lowbrow comedies, it's not up to snuff with "Mary," the Farrelly
brothers' "Dumb and Dumber" or Jim Carrey's "Ace Ventura: Pet
Detective." But for fans of those down and dirty escapades, especially
those chomping at the bit for the next Adam Sandler flick, this one
should do the trick, and is notable for being the first to spoof on one
of the year's biggest sci-fi hits.

* MPAA rating: R

"Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo"

Rob Schneider: Deuce Bigalow
Arija Bareikis: Kate
William Forsythe: Detective Chuck Fowler
Eddie Griffin: T.J. Hicks
Oded Fehr: Antoine Laconte

A Buena Vista presentation. Director Mike Mitchell. Screenplay Rob
Schneider and Harris Goldberg. Producers Sid Ganis and Barry Bernardi.
Director of photography Peter Lyons Collister. Editors George Bowers and
Lawrence Jordan. Music Teddy Castellucci. Production designer Alan Au.
Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes.

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