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| Rating |  | | Date | August 25, 2005 | | Summary | Can losing IQ points by watching a movie be somewhat fun? | Content
 | I've seen the first "Deuce Bigelow" movie at least a few times and I think it works for the most part. I actually wasn't going to see this sequel, but as is the case with coming across a horrible car accident on the freeway, one can't help but have a morbid curiosity and take a peek. So today I gave in and saw "Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo."
One thing has to be said right away: as crude as the first movie was, it maintained at least *some* dignity by not crossing the line between vulgar comedy and downright offensiveness. But this sequel takes no prisoners and crosses every line that is humanly possible to cross, and then it crosses them again just for good measure. I consider myself as having a very high tolerance for this type of humor, but this HAS to be the most vulgar and tasteless movie I've seen in my life. Absolute bottom-of-the-barrel humor, stooping to the lowest possible denominator, oftentimes using disabled people as the blunt of sadistic jokes. Stinks more than a dozen decomposing bodies left to bake in the Arizona desert smack in the middle of July.
And yet there's something about this movie that works. Don't ask me what it is, because I couldn't tell you in a billion years. Perhaps it's in the delivery. Or maybe the movie is such a trainwreck that one ends up letting their defenses down and goes along for the ride, in an unexplainable masochistic way. One wants to leave the theater and at the same time can't, just like one wants to look away from the bloody carnage of the above-mentioned car accident and yet can't force themselves to do so. I just don't know.
So to wrap up, this movie will offend the following demographic groups the most:
-gays
-Asians
-the elderly (especially those with disabilities)
And it will simply offend the following demographic group:
-99.9% of the rest of the population
You have been warned. I actually give this movie 2.5 stars but know that giving it anything more than 2 stars here is nothing short of blasphemy (for those of you who did, you will be sentenced to watch "Howard the Duck" and "Ishtar" 10 consecutive times back-to-back with your eyelids pried open ala "A Clockwork Orange")
One really good thing about this movie though: makes one wanna take a trip to Amsterdam! |
| Rating | | | Date | August 22, 2005 | | Summary | Excelent | Content
| this movie was funny from the start every body that thinks this movie is homofobic must be a homo or againts other beliefs because this movie was good. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 21, 2005 | | Summary | Part funny, part stupid. | Content
| I really thought this would be one of the summer's most hilarious comedies....apparently not.
The humor in this movie gave me a very mixed reaction. Some parts made me laugh a little bit and some jokes fell flat. A lot of people say this movie is offensive to all the weird woman that Deuce goes out with. That probably isn't true unless you are offended easily.
Rob Schneider really isn't all that funny in this movie. He made me crack up in the first Deuce Bigalow, The Hot Chick, The Animal, and his cameos in Adam Sandler movies. I would probably rent those instead of spending $8 to go out and see this. Eddie Griffin as Deuce's friend made me laugh more than anything else. By more I mean like 7 or 8 times.
The reason why this movie isn't as funny as you'd think is b/c of its length I think. This movie was just too short (77 mins) and the jokes just went by too fast that they came off as stupid and unfunny. If the writers would have stretched this out a little bit to maybe 90 mins, it would've been a little funnier.
This movie still has its funny moments. I chuckled about 7 times in the movie. Those parts alone made up for the ones that fell flat. But I really wouldn't recommend this movie to most people unless you like really stupid humor, otherwise I would go out and see Wedding Crashers for some laughs. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 20, 2005 | | Summary | Would have been funny if it only had some humor | Content
| Six years is a long time between an original and a sequel. In the case of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo it was probably for the best. The first volume was largely bland and forgettable but perhaps just memorably crappy enough that a bit of distance was necessary. If there is to be a third volume, it's going to need a good two decades or so before the ordeal that is Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo fades from memory. This fecal storm, miraculously, will run head to head with the Fantastic Four for worst film of the year.
The film opens with a male prostitute being compensated for his services by an attractive lady. As he's leaving the premises he is stopped and tipped by two others, an older housekeeper and a beefy security guard, for additional work performed the previous evening. Writers Rob Schneider, David Garrett and Jason Ward were apparently of the opinion that there was something inherently funny about the scene and that adding a joke of some sort would be unnecessary. It seems that opinion is extended to every scene in the film. Good jokes are nonexistent except for a quick shot of a guy getting bit in the balls by a dolphin. Animals biting testicles has a little bit of built-in comedy if done quick enough. It's unfortunate that another character is bitten in the nuts later in the film by a different animal and that the bite goes on for some length. Of course, one should gather from the very existence of this film though that those involved believe that any gag at all, no matter how unfunny, is worth repeating. Shall we have a few examples to illustrate? Perhaps there is something funny in the phrase "man-whore" that I'm missing. Whatever that particular joke is though, it is repeated 46 times in the film, I counted. There is also an attempted joke about Chinese guys having small equipment. Well, that's not exactly true. There are six attempted jokes about Chinese guys having small dongs. Rob Schneider through much of the film carries his dead wife's prosthetic leg with him. Again, this is what is supposed to pass for funny. When first exposed to Saturday Night Live in the late 70's, Johnny Carson stated that Chevy Chase "couldn't ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner." That was probably more than a little bit of professional jealousy but it would apply perfectly to Rob Schneider here. A scene arrives in which there should be some innate laughs. One of the other prostitutes is going to get his butt hair bleached. The "Man-Whore Killer" (Oh did I forget to bring up the murderer earlier? Well it's pretty much an unimportant back story in the film too so don't worry.) plans to kill the gigolo by replacing the butt hair bleach with something toxic. Not only is the scene not funny but they couldn't even figure out what they could replace the butt hair bleach with to make comedy. It's just some bottle with a skull & crossbones type thingy. How can you really fail to find one good element of sophomoric humor in a scene involving butt hair and bleach?
When not busy being unfunny, DB:EG is otherwise occupied being offensive. Sarah Silverman had a funny joke on a talk show a few years back where she talked about a Mexican ex-boyfriend of hers and said she had to break it off because every time they had sex she got diarrhea for a week. That is so far beyond the bounds of good taste that it reaches a type of offensive absurdity that is genuinely funny. When DB:EG decides to go for a joke at the expense of Mexico's people it is just plain racist instead of absurdist. Mexicans are incompetent. That's the joke. Beyond the small-schlong Asian series of "jokes"; a dwarf is tossed, the blind are used as comedic props, a pimp jokes about backhanding prostitutes and, among numerous gay jokes, a character is ridiculed as being "musical theatre gay". There is a way to make jokes like that and have them be funny or to challenge and push the comfort zones of audiences but again, it has to be so far over the top, or perhaps making fun of a stereotype by using a stereotype, that it couldn't be understood as anything but a joke. At that point, if well told, it could be funny. That doesn't happen in this film though. What does happen is that Americans are great and Europeans are useless pansies that whine continuously about American foreign policy (which is negative why?).
The end credits have a Rachel Stevens song with a chorus that sings, "I said never again but here we are." It's a perfect ending to the film and it really adds an exclamation point to the director's decision to use a pseudonym. Whoever Mike Bigelow is, s/he made an excellent career choice by saving their real name for real comedy. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 19, 2005 | | Summary | Same Ho. New Low... | Content
| This movie is one of the absolute stupidest movies I have ever seen. But it's really funny too. Those who loved the first film will undoubtedly like this one as well, even though the premise of the movie is so out there you can't help but wonder what happened in the writing process.
Deuce runs into trouble back at home, so he decides to go and visit pimp friend T.J. (Eddie Griffin) in Amsterdam. Once there, he finds out that a serial killer is offing all the man-whores in the area, and by ridiculous circumstances, T.J. is believed by the press to be the killer himself. So, Deuce has to go undercover in the man-whoring business once more in order to find out which one of the clients could be the killer to clear his friend's name.
Along the way, Deuce encounters a woman with giant ears, a woman with a hunchback, a woman with male genitalia on her face instead of a nose, a giant woman who makes him dress like a baby, and a new love interest with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). T.J. keeps getting caught in compromising positions with each prostidude who has been killed and continues to be labled as the "extremely gay" killer in the news. While all of this is totally stupid and insane, the movie is undeniably funny.
There are some offensive things in the film that don't work at all however, one main thing being an Asian man who is consistently made fun of for having a small member, and the movie aludes to all Asians having the same, which is a horrible thing to claim, and doesn't work as comedy. Neither does the notion of Deuce's former wife being eaten by a shark. While many may claim that T.J.'s homophobia reflects the movie being homophobic, I disagree. The CHARACTER of T.J. is homophobic, and doesn't want to be labled as a gay man, and in every situation the movie plays it out hysterically.
Yes, the movie is stupid. Very, VERY stupid, but I laughed a lot and had a great time. And with a premise and jokes like this, that's all you can ask for. |
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