Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
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| Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo | |
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 Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo film poster |
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| Directed by | Mike Bigelow |
| Produced by | John Schneider |
| Written by | Harris Goldberg, Rob Schneider, David Garrett, Jason Ward |
| Starring | Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin, Jeroen Krabbé |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 6, 2005 |
| Running time | 83 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~ US$22,000,000 |
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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) is the sequel to the 1999 film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. Rob Schneider stars as Deuce Bigalow, a male prostitute who must go to Europe to help his pimp T.J., played by Eddie Griffin, find a murderer who is killing the greatest male prostitutes of Europe. Film critic Roger Ebert includes the movie in his most hated films list.
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[edit] Plot
Gigolos in Europe are being terrorized by a serial killer. In Malibu, Deuce's wife is dead from a shark attack. Deuce is called up by T.J. Hicks, his former pimp, who invites him to come to Amsterdam where T.J. is pimping. Deuce goes because he is suspected of complicity in some dolphin-related injuries in Malibu.
When he gets to Amsterdam, T.J. shows him his boat, or "float crib," which has water in the cabin. They go to a coffee shop where T.J. tricks Deuce into getting high on space cake. Deuce looks at a wall painting and has an audio-visual hallucination of a maiden who tells him the hilarious details of what turns her on. Also at the coffee shop, T.J. and Deuce run into Heinz Hummer, the "gigolo with the most below."
After leaving the coffee shop, Deuce finds Heinz Hummer dead in an alley, but thinks he is just "wasted." Deuce takes the dead gigolo to T.J.'s float crib, where T.J. states that Heinz is dead. After he is seen dumping the body (with his hand in the corpse's pants, trying to find out "if his schlong was big and juicy"), T.J. is portrayed in the media as a gay gigolo killer. At least he escapes. Deuce, on the other hand, is apprehended and taken to the police station where he is interviewed by Gaspar, who wants to know where T.J. is hiding.
After being released, Deuce finds T.J. at a chicken 'n' waffles restaurant, and T.J. claims Deuce is racist for figuring out that he would be at "the only chicken 'n' waffles place in all of Holland." After they leave the restaurant, Deuce recalls that he saw the real killer walking away from Heinz Hummer's body. Deuce says it was a woman, so they both figure it was a she-john, a former client of the murdered gigolos.
T.J. convinces Deuce to help find the real killer by becoming a gigolo again and visiting the former clients and root out the killer.They attend a meeting of the Man-Whore Union, but fail to attain a list of the clients. Afterwards, they get the list from Antoine, the professional gigolo who appeared in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.
Deuce and T.J. visit the first client on the list. Deuce is forced to dress himself in diapers while T.J. breaks in and searches for evidence. T.J. finds 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, saying 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, which he forgot. Gaspar sneezes on his way inside, and 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. Deuce, a fish enthusiast, sees that she has a painting of a fish, so they go to the Amsterdam aquarium together.
At the aquarium, Deuce has an argument with a cigarette-smoking Frenchman who repeatedly insults Deuce while mocking Americans and making advances on Eva. Deuce eventually puts the uppity Frenchman in his place and him and Eva leave the park because Eva has to get to work. To his horror, Deuce discovers that Eva works in the pornographic film industry, having heard women moaning inside the building he left her at as well as the line of partially clad men waiting outside. Deuce rushes inside only to find that Eva is merely a set designer, and not a performer.
Deuce continues to investigate different women from Antoine's book, which include a woman who was born near Chernobyl and has a penis for a nose, a hunchbacked woman, a woman with a tracheotomy, and a woman with gigantic ears. As typical of Deuce, he tries various methods of helping these women feel more comfortable about their disfigurements. He has the hunchbacked woman wear a cut-open backpack which hides her hump, gets the woman with a tracheotomy a job as an airport announcer and takes the woman with the penis for a nose and the woman with the huge ears to a plastic surgery clinic. However, both come out with the same disfigurement, having opted for breast enhancement surgery instead.
While visiting Eva, Deuce is snooping around and finds clothing similar to the one wore by the killer he saw the night Heinz Hummer died, as well as the Lavender Love #66 lipstick. Deuce rushes to the police department and tells Gaspar that he thinks that 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 which Deuce does not comprehend.
Gaspar goes home to see Eva, who has uncovered the fact that he is the man-whore killer. He locks Eva inside his room, knowing that she cannot use doorknobs. Deuce rides with Gaspar to the Man-Whore Awards Ceremony under the guise of protecting the male prostitutes there. However, to Gaspar's surprise Eva is chasing them on a motorbike, shouting at Deuce that Gaspar is the killer. Gaspar pulls out a gun on Deuce and procedes to tell him a story that, once, he was a man-whore hopeful and that while observing a demonstration on how to perform a certain sex act one of his classmates offers to let him use his penis-enlargement pump. While pumping, the demonstration ends and Gaspar is horrifed to learn that the woman the sex act was being performed on was his fiance and is so angry he continues to pump until his penis explodes. He blames man-whores for the loss of his fiance and his penis, and plans to blow them all up at the ceremony.
At the ceremony, Deuce manages to evacuate the building by saying he is the man-whore killer and that he has a bomb. Deuce and Gaspar then have a sword fight with penis-shaped swords. Gaspar ultimately beats Deuce, but before he can run Deuce through he is interrupted by the woman with a penis for a nose and the woman with a tracheotomy, who sprays a liquid at Gaspar temporarily blinding him. Deuce them picks up one of the scattered award trophies littering the floor and clobbers Gaspar in the back of the head, knocking him out cold and taking the bomb detonator from him.
For his bravery, Deuce is given the Golden Boner award and the respect of his fellow man-whores. He shares a passionate kiss with Eva, and accidentally sets off the bomb with the statue's penis bumps the detonator button. Deuce and Eva then promptly leave the scene. The next day Deuce and Eva come to pick up T.J., who was released from jail after being captured after an earlier murder, and tells him that he is entering a brand new prostitution market; gay man-whoring. Deuce then treats the two to some food at the Chicken & Waffle restaurant and they walk off as the screen fades black.
[edit] Factual problems
In real life, most male prostitutes service homosexual male clients. In this film, the 'man whore' is basically someone whose clients are all female. Also, according to the drug policy of the Netherlands, carrying anything except small amounts of soft drugs for "personal use" is a prosecutable offense. According to DVD special features, the original title was Deuce Bigalow 2: Destination Amsterdam.
[edit] Deuce and the critics
Roger Ebert gave this film a very rare "zero star" rating, ranking it as the worst film of 2005. He also chastised Rob Schneider for his overly-zealous defense of the series, referring to an incident in which a Los Angeles Times critic called Schneider a "third-rate comic"; Schneider responded by calling the Times critic a "third-rate, unfunny pompous reporter" in a full-page open letter published in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Ebert includes this movie in his most hated films list. On 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."
Michael Medved also gave the film "0 stars", calling it "painfully unfunny" and saying "there's not a single laugh anywhere in this rancid, wretched, train-wreck [of a film]" [1]
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo became the lowest earning picture of 2005 for films opening at over 3,000 theatres, making only 22.4 million dollars.
[edit] Cast
- Rob Schneider as Deuce Bigalow
- Eddie Griffin as Tiberius Jackson "T.J." Hicks
- Adam Sandler as Javier Sandooski (uncredited)
- Carlos Ponce as Rodrigo Bollas de Madera
- Jeroen Krabbé as Graspar Voorsboch
- Til Schweiger as Heinz Hummer
- Alex Dimitriades as Enzo
- Kostas Sommer as Assapoplous Morealis
- Hanna Verboom as Eva Voorsboch
- Federico Dordei as Mahmoud
- Vincent Martella as Billy
- Rachel Stevens as Louisa
- David Guidalin as The Hulk
- Charles Keating as Gian-Carlo
- Oded Fehr as Antoine LaConte
- Arija Bareikis as Kate Bigalow
[edit] Awards and nominations
[edit] 2005 Golden Raspberry Awards
Five nominations:
- Worst Picture
- Worst Screenplay
- Worst Remake or Sequel
- Worst Actor (Rob Schneider)
- Worst Screen Couple (Rob Schneider & his diapers)
One Award:
- Worst Actor (Rob Schneider)
