Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Mike Mitchell

Writers (WGA):

Harris Goldberg (written by) &
Rob Schneider (written by)

Release Date:

10 December 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

He's not very good looking. But when the lights go out...he's still not very good looking.

Plot:

A man becomes a male gigolo after being mistaken for one while housesitting a male gigolo's house.

Plot Keywords:

Gigolo | Fish | Fish Tank | Aquarium | Prostitution

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Rob Schneider	...	Deuce Bigalow
William Forsythe	...	Detective Chuck Fowler
Eddie Griffin	...	T.J. Hicks
Arija Bareikis	...	Kate
Oded Fehr	...	Antoine Laconte
Gail O'Grady	...	Claire
Richard Riehle	...	Bob Bigalow
Jacqueline Obradors	...	Elaine Fowler
Big Boy	...	Jabba
Amy Poehler	...	Ruth
Dina Platias	...	Bergita
Torsten Voges	...	Tina
Deborah Lemen	...	Carol
Bree Turner	...	Allison
Andrew Shaifer	...	Neil

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content, language and crude humor.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:R (certificate #37133) | Iceland:12 | Malaysia:(Banned) | Finland:K-11 | South Korea:18 | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) | Denmark:7 | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Philippines:R-18 | Spain:18 | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Chile:18 | Germany:12 | Hungary:14 | Ireland:18 | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M | Singapore:PG | Sweden:11 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Angel Stadium of Anaheim - 2000 Gene Autry Way, Anaheim, California, USA

Company:

Happy Madison Productions

Trivia:

The Tall Woman's house is the same house used on the show "Charmed" (1998) as the Halliwell Manor.

Goofs:

Continuity: When T.J. and Deuce are going through and looking at each one of the fish in the miscellaneous containers, they come across one fish lying on the bottom, which has a toy scuba diver sitting near it. The scuba diver changes positions in relation to the fish several times between shots.

Quotes:

Ruth: BALL-HAIR!
Deuce Bigalow: Yeah, ball-hair, what we need is a strike here!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Lucy Liu/Jay-Z (#26.8)" (2000)

Soundtrack:

Call Me

Very Low Brow But I Liked It

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