Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 12, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
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17
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60
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
Definitely merits its R rating with a fearless approach that will earn genuine laughs as it turns a few stomachs. Yes, a Rob Schneider movie that's funny. Strange but true. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
As before, there are moments, when Schneider is turned loose to do his anything-goes, creepy-funny shtick, that are crudely inspired. Read full review
60
EmpireChris Hewitt (1)
The Godfather II of manwhore sequels, this improves upon the original in every way. Especially if you're drunk. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyScott Brown
While sloppier than the sloppiest of seconds, is laudable in one important regard: Its obsession with the male body. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Every bit as vulgar, sophomoric and thoroughly tasteless as 1999's Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. But what is most annoying is the sequel's capability of inducing laughter even as one hates oneself for so easily succumbing to the total silliness of it all. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Director Mike Bigelow maintains a mercifully swift pace, and while the film's humor is deliberately as crass as humanly possible, it is not truly mean-spirited, even though Amsterdam is depicted as a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Amazingly, amidst the smutty silliness, there are some laughs. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJoshua Katzman
Penis jokes fly fast and furious, and while they're hit-or-miss they're occasionally very funny. Schneider always plays a variation of the same put-upon schlemiel, a formula that worked fine for, well, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
You don't have to rise very high to get above the level of these gags. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jason Anderson
In the worst scenes in Deuce Bigalow: European Bigalow, it's as if Schneider and Co. are straining to invent new taboos just so they can break them, a strategy that provokes more confused silence than laughter. Read full review
30
VarietyRobert Koehler
Rude, crude and, uh, cosmopolitan, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo waves the flag for R-rated politically incorrect studio comedy but doesn't top the laugh ratio of the first Deuce misadventure. Read full review
30
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
It's not Deuce's satisfied clientele, but the audience, that gets the shaft. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
There is an essential meanness to the entire project, tapping the manipulative power of taunts. Such jokes don't jibe with the times, the culture. Read full review
30
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
What's perhaps most surprising about European Gigolo is its reactionary streak, exemplified by knee-jerk attacks on Europe's equally knee-jerk anti-Americanism. Then again, that seems fitting. The sequel functions as the ultimate Ugly American, good for a few cheap, vulgar laughs and nothing else. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The director is first-timer Mike Bigelow. Nothing's paced or shaped for maximum payoff; the shooting and editing rhythms add only clutter and noise, and the slapstick is strictly of the skull-banging, ear-splitting variety. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
At times, "European Gigolo" feels more like an international incident than a movie. Read full review
25
PremiereAaron Hillis
Not to chastise the movie for simply being rude or crude -- since "The Wedding Crashers" proved that hormone-raging '80s throwbacks can still be harmless fun -- but this contemptible sex-com redux should be taken to task for how its infantilized yucks give license to entertaining closed-minded acceptances of very real human ugliness. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
This bare-bones plot is merely an excuse to string together a series of gross-out jokes involving bodily fluids, private parts, food and genetic deformities. Read full review
12
Boston GlobeJanice Page
If all the first "Deuce" had going for it was a regular-guy approach to over-the-top humor, that's completely absent in this follow-up. Read full review
0
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks. Read full review
0
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Not that there are any actual jokes to be had. The film simply jumps to the punch lines, a non-stop barrage of crude dialogue and vulgar sight gags that passes as humor among adolescent boys. Who exactly is the audience for this R-rated film? The terminally immature? Read full review
0
New York PostLou Lumenick
A vile and laughless follow-up to Schneider's 1999 hit. Read full review
0
Miami HeraldPeter Debruge
The way I see it, anyone who's made up his mind to see Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo deserves everything they've got coming to them, and with any luck, they might even enjoy the movie's willfully offensive gutter humor. Read full review
0
Village VoiceStaff (Not credited)
It's an unimaginative, mean-spirited gross-out that forgot to bring the funny. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
Not content to merely be lowbrow and stupid – there's room in the world for lowbrow and stupid mass entertainment – the film is pushy and might actually cause chafing. Read full review
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