Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Directed by	Mike Mitchell
Produced by	Rob Schneider Adam Sandler
Written by	Harris Goldberg Rob Schneider David Garrett Jason Ward
Starring	Rob Schneider Eddie Griffin Jeroen Krabbé Til Schweiger Kostas Sommer
Cinematography	Marc Felperlaan
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	August 12, 2005 (2005-08-12)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$22 million
Box office	$45,109,561 [1]

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo is the 2005 sequel to the 1999 film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, from Happy Madison Productions. Rob Schneider returns in the role of a 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.

Plot

Gigolos in Europe are being terrorized by a serial killer. In Malibu, Deuce Bigalow's wife Kate is dead from a shark attack, and Deuce is invited by his former pimp T.J. Hicks to Amsterdam where T.J. is currently pimping. Deuce goes, as he is suspected of complicity in some dolphin-related injuries in Malibu and 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, until T.J. gets back and immediately realizes that Hummer is dead. T.J. who plans to dump the body, but skeptical of Hummer's reputation of being well-endowed, pauses to unzip his pants and examine his genitalia. Unfortunately he is caught by a tour boat and is subsequently labeled by the media as a gay gigolo killer. T.J. escapes, but Deuce is apprehended and taken to the police station where he is interviewed by Gaspar Voorsboch, a police inspector who wants to know of T.J.'s whereabouts.

Upon his release from the police station, Deuce finds T.J. at a restaurant and recalls that he saw the real 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 help find the real 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 (an organization of male prostitutes), but fail to procure a list of the clients. Afterwards, they get the list from Antoine, the professional gigolo who appeared in the first film.

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, but mentions 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. Deuce helps her pick up the things she dropped, and Eva explains to Deuce that she has obsessive-compulsive disorder. Fish-enthusiast Deuce sees that she has a painting of a fish, so they go to the Amsterdam aquarium together. Later, Deuce continues to investigate different women from Antoine's book, including a woman named Svetlana who was born near Chernobyl and has a very active penis for a nose, a hunchbacked woman, a woman with a tracheotomy, and a woman with gigantic ears.

While visiting Eva, Deuce is snooping around and finds evidence implicating Eva. Deuce then rushes to the police department and tells Gaspar that he thinks Eva is the man-whore killer. Gaspar is reluctant to believe this, and even drops many hints that he himself is the man-whore killer, but Deuce remains clueless.

While Gaspar has told Eva that he is the man-whore killer, Deuce rides with Gaspar to the Man-Whore Awards Ceremony under the guise of protecting the man-whores there. However, to Gaspar's surprise, Eva is chasing them on a moped, and shouting at Deuce that Gaspar is the killer. Gaspar pulls a gun on Deuce and proceeds to tell him that, once, he was 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 to learn that the woman who was on the receiving end of the sex act was his fiancée. Gaspar became so angry that he continued to pump until his penis exploded. He blames man-whores for the loss of his fiancée and his penis, and plans to blow them all up at their awards ceremony.

At the ceremony, Deuce evacuates the building and gets into a swordfight with Gaspar. Gaspar beats Deuce, but before he can detonate the bomb, the woman with a penis for a nose and the woman with the tracheotomy arrive at the stage and distract Gaspar. Deuce then knocks out Gaspar with a trophy, taking the bomb detonator from him. For his bravery, Deuce is given the Golden Boner award - an explicit statue - and the respect of his fellow man-whores. 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 then promptly 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. They all walk off as the screen fades to black.

Cast

• 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
• Alex Dimitriades as Enzo Giarraputo
• Kostas Sommer as Assapopoulos Mariolis
• Miranda Raison as Svetlana Revenko
• Rachel Stevens as Louisa, the Dirty Girl
• 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 Marlene Alsmere
• Julia Lea Wolov as The Big-Eared Girl
• Rachel Stevens as Louisa
• Fred Armisen as Frenchman (uncredited)
• Norm Macdonald as Earl MacManus (uncredited)
• John Farley as Naked Bike Cop (uncredited)
• Kelly Brook as Beautiful Woman in Painting
• Daan Schuurmans as Zucchini Gigolo
• Wouter Smit as Dutch Gigolo
• Arija Bareikis as Kate Bigelow (uncredited)
• Alex Zane as Man-Whore Awards reporter
• Johnny Vaughan as Man-Whore Award Host/Himself

There are also the cameo of Adam Sandler and Elisabetta Canalis.

Production notes

The director's name, Mike Bigelow, may sound like a pseudonym, but it is not.^[2]

Reception

"Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks."

—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times[3]

Meta review website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 10% based on 97 reviews.^[4]

Roger Ebert gave this film a very rare "zero star" rating, calling it "aggressively bad, as if it wants to cause suffering to the audience" and on his show Ebert and Roeper "completely beneath contempt."^[3] He ranked it as the worst film of 2005, and ultimately included this movie in his most hated films list.^[5] On the television show 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.^[3] 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.

Ebert and Schneider would ultimately settle 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."^[6]

The movie was nominated for five Razzie Awards including Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Remake or Sequel and Worst Screen Couple (Rob Schneider and his diapers) with Schneider winning Worst Actor.

References

1. ^ Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at Box Office Mojo
2. ^ http://www.tribute.ca/people/Mike+Bigelow/13897
3. ^ ^{a b c} Roger Ebert (2005-08-12). "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo". rogerebert.suntimes.com. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001/1023. Retrieved 2008-10-19. 
4. ^ Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at Rotten Tomatoes
5. ^ Roger Ebert (2005-08-11). "Ebert's Most Hated". rogerebert.suntimes.com. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/COMMENTARY/50808002. Retrieved 2008-10-19. 
6. ^ "A bouquet arrives". Chicago Sun-Times. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070507/COMMENTARY/70507001. 

External links

• Official website
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at AllRovi
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at Box Office Mojo
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at the Internet Movie Database
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at Metacritic
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo at Rotten Tomatoes