Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) Review

It opens with a great one-two-three punch line montage that has the audience giggling. Then, it plunges penis-first into the Amsterdam gutter.

Comedy duo Griffin, Schneider © Columbia Pictures

Not since Me and Him, the 1989 German production in which the voice of Mark Linn-Baker suddenly animates the penis of Griffin Dunne's character Bert Uttanzi, has a comedy so continentally and gleefully embraced the male anatomy. Rob Schneider's latest cinematic pastiche, much like Paul Provenza's current doc The Aristocrats, offers a hundred variations of every stand-up comedian's go-to favorite: the dick joke.

This Deuce is shameless, relentless, tasteless and way raunchier than its 1999 predecessor; but about the time the sixth or seventh gag touching on the relative girth of the Asian male anatomy rolls around, your jaw will either be sore from guffawing or clenching your teeth. If you're a hardcore fan of The Howard Stern Show, where both Schneider and co-star Eddie Griffin held court separately this week, you will worship at the altar of this film's various low-rent attempts to outdo the hair gel scene in There's Something About Mary. Much like the two guys sitting next to me, who couldn't stop exclaiming how hilarious it all was.

On the other hand, if the idea of a bad dream Saturday Night Live flashback hosted by Schneider and featuring drop-ins from Norm McDonald, Fred Armisen and Adam Sandler leaves you indifferent, then do yourself a favor and wait for the unrated, uncut, and no doubt uncircumcised DVD.

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