Reviewer's Rating 1 out of 5
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)
15Contains very strong language, sex references and drug use.

Just as there are some diseases that are worse than dysentery, there are some films that are worse than Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. But we're talking single figures, folks. In a pointless sequel to 1999's scrappy sex comedy Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Rob Schneider's reluctant prostitute flees to Amsterdam after an incident involving a group of pensioners and a dolphin. There, he and his pimp (Eddie Griffin) are embroiled in a plot to catch a serial killer specialising in "man-whores".

Director Mike Bigelow (how they must have laughed at that one) uses this flimsy framework as an excuse to set Schneider up with as many deformed and/or disabled women as possible, from a smoker with a laryngectomy who squirts wine through the hole in her windpipe, to a Russian aristocrat with a penis for a nose. Yeah, you read that right. Guess what happens when she sneezes.

"ENTIRELY GIGGLE-FREE"

But it's not the relentless misogyny, the homophobia or even the persistent undercurrent of racism that makes Deuce Bigalow such a miserable, joyless grind to sit through. Its predecessor somehow mined a few laughs from its college frat-boy scenarios, but this effort is entirely giggle-free. It can't even raise a laugh at the idea of a national union of male prostitutes, a concept that ought to be very funny indeed. Schneider remains as goggle-eyed and charmless as ever, but his character's relative innocence is the only foothold in a fetid swamp of cynicism that engulfs everything around him. Moronic and repulsive.

End Credits

Director: Mike Bigelow

Writer: Rob Schneider, David Garrett, Jason Ward

Stars: Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin, Jeroen Krabbe, Hanna Verboom

Genre: Comedy

Length: 83 minutes

Cinema: 30 September 2005

Country: USA

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