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Let's see...you're watching a movie starring and co-written by Rob Schneider. You're obviously not expecting something with depth and plausibility. But he is a talented comedian, and anyone who is an avid SNL fan has seen Rob perform some very funny skits. He's not Milton Berle, but he has that mindlessly funny comic energy that frequently works.

"Deuce Bigalow" is a film almost aimed at ticking off critics. Not all audiences will find the crude gags funny, but others--preferably those who can let go of their inhibitions for an hour and a half--will have tons of laughs. The subplot involving Deuce's father as a bathroom attendant is pretty cheap. It's an obvious setup for scatological gags. One of them involving a scene in which Deuce is having a pleasant man-to-man talk with his Dad while you can hear the groans of someone in one of the stalls loudly...relieving himself made me roll with laughter. I wouldn't call it a priceless gag, but you don't always have to aim high with comedy. If it's funny, it's funny. If you laughed, you laughed.

Just like any Farrelly Brothers movie, there are gags involving physical handicaps like obesity, narcolepsy and Turrett's Syndrome. However, the jokes are executed in such a broad manner that no one--even ones with any of those disorders--shouldn't be offended.

Naturally, some will hate this movie, some will like this movie, some will love this movie. In my mind, if it's a comedy and I'm laughing--what other factors should I be looking for?

My score: 7 (out of 10)

Duece Bigalow cleans fish tanks for a living and by a contrived set of circumstances finds himself looking after the home of male gigolo Antoine Laconte who is very house proud and a bit of a psycho . What's the odds of Laconte coming home to find his house a bit of a mess ?

There you go a very simple predictable premise featuring someone who's got a rude sounding name . I lost count of how many times people mispronounced the name " Laconte " but I will be honest in saying I did like some aspects to this film no matter how predictable and unlikely they were : " Hey Deuce it's Antoine . If I come back to find out there's any mess I will kill you " . I also liked the not so unsubtle references to THE MATRIX and American GIGOLO

Of course I can understand why some people don't like it . It's a very unsophisticated movie that feels like it's trying to be a Farrelly brothers comedy but failing and even I became very fed up with the cop showing Deuce his thingy in every scene they appeared in together along with the running gag about sea snails , but come on it's a low brow comedy and I knew before I sat down to watch it that it wasn't an Oscar contender . Try FREDDY GOT FINGERED or GET OVER IT if you want to see a really bad comedy

Six out of Ten

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo is far from an original or subtle comedy, but I don't think that is what the director had in mind when doing this movie. All in all it is quite a good movie, even though it is a real no-brainer.

Deuce Bigalow used to work as a tank cleaner in SeaWorld, but got fired because he was cleaning the tanks in the nude in front of a lot of people. Since than he cleans domestic fish tanks for a living. This job brings him into contact with Antoine Laconte, who works as a male escort and owns a gigantic apartment, filled with all kinds of precious items. One of these is a tank full of very expensive fish.

When one of the fish gets sick Deuce is asked to help and, since Antoine is going to Europe for 3 weeks, he has to check in on the apartment daily to look at the fish. But instead of checking in on Antoine's home, Deuce takes the opportunity to move into the flat. He accidentally sets fire to the toaster and breaks the fish tank. Knowing that Antoine will kill him for that when he sees it, Deuce has to make sure everything is exactly the way it was. But that will cost a lot of money... which he doesn't have. To raise enough money in that short period of time he decides to start working as a low-budget male gigolo.

As you can expect in this kind of movie, he doesn't meet any normal women who want to make use of his services. It is a real freak show, filled with a 500 pound woman, a woman who's about 8 feet tall... The movie is full of this kind of predictable facts, but when you are prepared for it, it really doesn't bother. Don't expect to see a highly sofisticated movie, but it isn't as bad as you might expect. One of the scenes that I really liked were the parodies on other movies like The Matrix.

I would recommend this movie to everybody who doesn't mind laughing about older and predictable jokes. It's an excellent movie when you came home from a hard day at work, when you are tired and looking for a good laugh without having to think too much. I reward it with a 7/10.

I hate to admit this but I liked this movie, at least the first time I saw it. Yes, it's crass, crude, stupid and whatever but it's generally likable and a funny movie in many spots.

Rob Schneider does a fine job playing this amiable loser. Several scenes are just laugh-out-loud funny. The female interest, Arija Bareikis, is not someone I was familiar with but I liked her wholesome looks. William Forsythe plays the villain and, of course, he's over-the-top. The film had a nice soundtrack, a lot of familiar rock tunes.

As with most modern comedies, this gets carried and a little stupid at the end but, overall the film is good low-grade fun (and I mean "low grade!")

Deuce Bigalow is exactly what you would expect from this production team and straight up you either like them or you don't.

I like them so for me Deuce Bigalow hits the spots I expected it to hit.

The comedy is low brow but its not trying to be an art film so its all good.

And I'm not going to apoligise for my absolute love of the term/category of 'He B!tch' :) My wife and I have been using that expression for years now and it never gets old!!

The cast throughout is fun and add plenty of comedy gold.

Its a fun movie that most will at least get some moments of mirth from and others will laugh their socks off :)

Among a huge list in 1999 of comedies (American Pie, Bowfinger, Dogma, and South Park topping that list), Deuce Bigaow has to be included. It is a original comedy about a fish man (Rob Schnieder) who becomes a man-prostitute in order to pay for a 6,000 dollar tank. What follows in the film are some of the best and most outrageous antics to come from a SNL type of character movie. The premise sounds dumb, to be sure (as most others are), but Schnieder makes this worth watching with his consistently funny performance. Norm McDonald makes a cameo. A-

After watching the commercials for this movie, I was excited about seeing DEUCE BIGALWO: MALE GIGOLO. Although I've never been a big Rob Schneider fan, I've always liked Saturday Night Live and their alumni, and I usually enjoy the movies they make. I was hoping this movie wouldn't be too similar to most Adam Sandler movies that are made. Most of them are stupider than they are funnier. I'd rather watch a movie like TOMMY BOY or THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO LITTLE than WATERBOY or BILLY MADISON. So I was hoping DEUCE BIGALOW be a little more like those movies. It turns out, this movie was worse than the Adam Sandler movies, and I found most Sandler movies funnier.

Deuce Bigalow (Rob Schneider) plays a pathetic, unemployed, fish-loving tank cleaner who gets a job by a very big male prostitute named Antoine LeConte (Oded Fehr) to take care of his house for three weeks. When Deuce almost destroys the house, he needs to make a few thousand dollars quickly. Through a guy named T.J. (Eddie Griffin) he is able to get a job as a gigolo, but every girl he tries to "give pleasure" is very unusual and strange. He finally falls in love with a woman named Kate (Arija Bareikis).

Although it had its moments, DEUCE BIGALOW: MALE GIGALO didn't strike me as very funny. The story line is useless (although it isn't really mean to be very important) and most of the jokes that weren't used on the commercials don't work. The funniest parts of the movie were the Matrix spoofs and a few of the jokes, but all of which were already used on the commercials.

The acting was nothing special, but not so bad. Rob Schneider does fine, but again, nothing special. Arija Bareikis does pretty well as Deuce's girlfriend. Oded Fehr did a pretty good job as the huge, strong male hooker. Eddie Griffin and William Forsythe (who plays a detective) play incredibly annoying characters with not-very-great acting jobs. Norm Macdonald has a pretty good cameo as well.

Story line? Give me a break. It's just Deuce going from one nutcase girl to another and falling in love with the only normal one (well, mostly). Some of the girls do have funny moments, but not enough for me to say I recommend this movie.

Deuce Bigalow (Rob Schneider) is a bumbling clueless fish-expert aquarium cleaner that no woman likes. He cleans male gigolo Antoine's aquarium. Antoine is going on a trip and Deuce is asked to take care of his beloved sick fish. He destroys the tank and needs $6k in 3 weeks to replace it. He tries his hand in the gigolo business and attracts pimp T.J. Hicks (Eddie Griffin). Deuce becomes a highly specialized man-whore taking on unusual clients.

This is a really stupid comedy and it kinda works. Rob Schneider is a sleazy clueless idiot but not the hateful one that he sometimes plays. Eddie Griffin is hilarious. It also features Amy Poehler as Ruth with Tourettes. The romance with Arija Bareikis is cute. I understand critics who ridicule the movie's idiocy but I laughed. It's that simple.

All Adam Sandler, Rob Schnieder, Norm MacDonald, Chris Farley, David Spade, and the rest of former SNL "Bad Boys" have the same stupid plotline to all of their films. They gotta get a certain amount of money in a certain amount of time or it's somebody's head. I can't even comprehend why they get a fraction of an audience anymore.

Sure, Deuce Bigalow is not exactly a landmark cinematic accomplishment. It's full of dirty jokes and childish humor, but underneath all of the goofball comedy, it actually comes through with a very healthy message, which is virtually non-existent in these dumb comedies. Deuce Bigalow is a lowly fish tank cleaner, and when one of his important clients has to leave town on business, he hires Deuce to look after his place and especially one of his precious fish, which would not survive on it's own the entire time that Anton (the client) is out of town. Needless to say, Deuce starts screwing around in the lavish apartment and breaks Anton's ridiculously expensive fish tank and then has to come up with $6,000 to replace it and do other repairs around the house.

This is when Deuce has the brilliant idea to assume Anton's job as a gigolo, because he knows he'll never make the money on time cleaning fish tanks. Unfortunately, he gets all of the freaky clients, like the gigantic black woman (`Did you say steak?') and the eight foot tall girl (`That's a huge bitch!'), the girl with narcolepsy that falls asleep at the weirdest times, and of course, they could never leave out a date with Tourette's syndrome, definitely the least amusing of all of them.

So Deuce goes through all of these awful dates, and then he meets a girl on another date that is perfect except she has a prosthetic leg. This is where the healthy message comes in, because Deuce learns that he really loves this girl, and it really doesn't matter to him that she only has one leg. He falls in love with her pretty quick, but the romance of it all, as cheesy as it was, is actually pretty well done. Deuce is trying to get enough money to replace the stuff in Anton's apartment, so he goes on one last date with one of Anton's stunningly beautiful clients, and he even rejects her aggressive sexual advances because he's in love. Sure, he does a pretty graphic strip-tease for her, but you get the point of his intentions.

However, despite the fact that the movie is full of goofy jokes, some of the comedy was pretty good. Deuce's toilet-cleaning father was pretty amusing at some points, and most of all, the detective that was after Deuce and especially Anton (his wife was one of Anton's clients) was hilarious in every scene he was in. `I got a thin dick!' Why is that so funny? It's totally dumb, but it just cracked me up. Maybe it's because he compared it to spaghetti. It was just great how he was at first really threatening to Deuce, and then he would suddenly ask his advice about whether Deuce thought he could make some money in the gigolo business or what he thought that red spot on his penis was (`It wasn't there this morning, I checked!').

As a whole, this is another one of those brainless comedies aimed at immature or uneducated (or both) audiences, but it doesn't fail on just about all levels like most of these types of movies always seem to do. It's a strong and healthy message delivered in questionable packaging.

I wasn't all that thrilled about seeing this movie, but I thought I would at least get a few laughs, especially since we were seeing it with a large group. I don't really remember laughing at all. I don't think anyone really did, except maybe once or twice, and not that laugh out loud so everyone can hear you sort of laugh.

Surprising, even the guys, who made up a majority of the group did not find this funny and agreed that they should never be allowed to pick what movie we see again.

And that's about it, nothing good to say, it is obvious they were just going for some laughs, nothing special about the directing or cinematography.

Rob Schneider(Deuce Bigalow),"The Hot Chick",'02, had me laughing through out the entire film. Bigalow starts out as a very simple guy who cleans fish tanks and other details, like plunging a toilet bowl. He meets up with a guy who lets him use his home while he goes on a trip and things start to happen. As the picture progresses, Bigalow finds himself having to service all kinds of women with very crazy personalities and wild desires. One gal has such bad language he takes her to a baseball game where she can use all kinds of filthy words and be applauded by the crowd. However, Deuce Bigalow does meet up with a gal Arija Bareikis and falls madly in love with her, however, he pulls her leg too much and gets her very hot and bothered. Deuce eventually goes to trial and you will have the view the film to find out how it ends. Great Comedy and a fantastic performance by Rob Schneider.

This movie is dumb and crazy, silly comedy, but later it becomes very charming and heartwarming. The very best of Rob Schneider.

While watching `Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,' you may well find yourself laughing out loud from time to time – and hating yourself for it afterwards. For this lame brained comedy, beyond being incredibly juvenile and silly in its comedic temperament, also manages to be as politically incorrect as possible, using as its targets the obese, the handicapped and an assortment of social outcasts and misfits. And, although the ribbing is generally quite good-natured and even affectionate at times, one can't help but feel a little guilty about laughing.

The formula for the film adheres very closely to the one employed by virtually all "Saturday Night Live" or "Second City" alumni in their initial forays into big screen comedies. Once again we have the usual bumbling nerd trying to win acceptance as a `cool dude,' making a shambles of everything he touches, yet ultimately managing to garner the respect of his peers and the love of a beautiful woman. Rob Schneider plays the title role, a professional fish tank cleaner who, through a complicated series of circumstances, finds himself delving into the realm of `man whore' in order to earn some much needed money. The stupidity of the premise and the situations cannot be underestimated as Schneider is put through a series of pratfalls, misunderstandings and verbal slugfests that are often quite amusing almost in spite of themselves. It takes either a certain amount of daring or a shocking degree of insensitivity (or perhaps a little of both) to line up a series of jokes and sight gags aimed at people who suffer from obesity, Tourettes Syndrome, Narcolepsy, blindness and limb amputation - but this film does it. Somehow, though, the film manages to treat its characters with such a genial fondness that it never seems particularly harsh or mean spirited. Whether or not that mitigates the feeling of guilt resulting from one's laughter must, finally, be a matter of personal conscience I suppose.

Schneider plays the lead in a nicely relaxed fashion, not succumbing to the hyperbolic mugging that so many comics are prone to indulge in when faced with similar roles. And what a pleasant surprise to encounter Marlo Thomas of all people in an uncredited cameo appearance – and still looking like a knockout in her sexy lingerie.

`Deuce Bigalow' may not sit well with the easily offended or with those who prefer their comedy to be of a bit more - um, shall we say - cerebral nature. Still, unabashed silliness makes for a fun time every now and then and, in that spirit, this film deserves to be seen.

"Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" is definitely a Rob Schneider classic in its own right.

Writers Harris Goldberg and Rob Schneider put together an enjoyable, entertaining and funny storyline. And something that really worked in this 1999 comedy was the character gallery. I like the odd characters that were in the movie quite a lot. And it is a movie that you watch more than once, so thumbs up to the writers on that accomplishment.

The acting performances in the movie were good. And you know what you get with Rob Schneider in the lead, and he does deliver in this movie. He is joined by familiar faces such as William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Oded Fehr and Richard Riehle.

There are some genuine and good laughs throughout the course of the 88 minutes that the movie ran for.

If you haven't already seen director Mike Mitchell's 1999 comedy "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo", then you should do so, if you get the chance.

My rating of "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" lands on a six out of ten stars.

Watched without any expectations... Thus a nice surprise... Silly old school sophomoric male humor. Not as vulgar as the mid 2,000's snd forward.

-An average decent hearted looser get involved in goofy sex situation and the rest follows.

Not an award winner, but is a good rollicking time with old school make college humor, situations. Cast and crew seems to have a good time, no one acts over the top, tight editing, decent dialogue, set design and a good Saturday afternoon- time killer or if bored to death one evening.

No severe darkness, or dark subliminal messages, no political commentary... fun soundtrack...just goofball fun.

Well lit, lighthearted lampoon.

You want darkness, despair, not here... Straight up fantasy even granny will scoff at but still secretly chuckle to.

A good afternoon classic.

Sandler and his crew kept this from grossness and vulgarity.

my friend thought it was hilarious. occasionally I laughed, but mostly I yawned. you ended up rolling your eyes at some parts that you knew were supposed to be funny. guys should see 'deuce,' especially if the movie's message hits home, but I can't sincerely recommend this to females.

OK, let's start by stating the obvious: this movie is incredibly stupid; it contains humour which for the most part could be described as sophomoric at best; it pokes fun at disabilities ranging from eating disorders to Tourette's Syndrome (with a little narcolepsy thrown in just for the fun of it.) That being said, let's state one other obvious thing: it works, as long as you don't try to take it too seriously. There's no message here and no strongly developed plot. This movie is just meant to be fun - and it turns out that it is.

Rob Schneider is perfectly cast as the geeky fish tank cleaner Deuce Bigalow, who ends up - by accident! - working as a "man-whore" to earn money to fix the damages he's done to the real gigolo's expensive apartment. The supporting cast is wonderful. Who wouldn't laugh at Eddie Griffin as T.J. - Deuce's "man-pimp." Among the series of women Deuce is sent to satisfy, Amy Poehler caused great laughter as Ruth, suffering from Tourette's Syndrome, and the movie was absolutely stolen by Fluisa (played by Big Boy) the VERY heavy woman who is Deuce's first customer.

As I say, don't take this at all seriously. Just enjoy it, and let the laughs come. I rated it as a 7/10.

which is as much a commentary on the state of American cinema as it is on the quality of this surprising film. Thoroughly enjoyable as long as you're not looking for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Deuce Bigalow provides a deft blend of juvenille humor and inventive verbal humor and situational gags. I have to say that it has one of the funniest "reconcilation" scenes in a romantic comedy that I have seen in a long time. But the great thing about this movie is that Rob Schneider has created a couple of really memorable and unique characters. On top of that, there are many wonderful and touching moments hidden beneath the more obvious jokes and the many throwaway gags.

"Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" is actually a very funny movie.I'm not familiar with Rob Schneider's other work,but in this movie he turns in a great performance.

The Plot of the film is very implausible and requires a complete suspense of disbelief.The romance story feels forced and unnatural,but that wasn't really the focus of the movie.That,I think,is one of the main reasons the critics were so harsh on this film-"Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" isn't a clever satire or a cute romantic comedy,it's good old mindless entertainment at it's finest.Sure there are some tasteless jokes in the film,but come on, this isn't a film meant to be taken seriously.

"Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" is a funny and enjoyable comedy,but nothing more.I recommend it for good laughs.

Somehow, the trailer for Duece made this movie look like it would be a hilarious comedy. When I watched the movie, all I could do was scratch my head and wonder what I had found funny.

I did not laugh at this movie! In fact, I don't think I even gave a little chuckle more than once or twice.

I think the only joke involved with this movie was the fact that it was even made.

Go see The Green Mile, or if you want comedy find a theater that is playing "Being John Malkovich". Just don't waste your money on Duece Bigalow

Rob Schneider is not known for his acting but he proved that he can perform with the rest of them in "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo." This might be his best film to date because he is what makes this film come alive along with the rest of his castmates.

I liked this movie so much that it hurt me every time I laughed. This was a film that should be used as a model for true laughter and comedy because the jokes were clean and funny at the same time. Schneider co-wrote this film that introduced a plot that was so funny, which had a sweet underlying plot that I found to be very enjoyable to watch.

My favorite scene in this whole movie involved the blind date with the woman who could not control her mouth. You will have to watch the movie to understand what I'm talking about.

The whole cast was incredible as they all turned in superb performances. It also seemed they were having fun with one another on the set and it showed in their performances, which is one thing I look for in a good film.

"Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" cracked me up and should be watched by everyone.