Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo Critic Reviews

While sloppier than the sloppiest of seconds, is laudable in one important regard: Its obsession with the male body.Read the full review

Amazingly, amidst the smutty silliness, there are some laughs.Read the full review

Director Mike Bigelow maintains a mercifully swift pace, and while the film's humor is deliberately as crass as humanly possible, it is not truly mean-spirited, even though Amsterdam is depicted as a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.Read the full review

Every bit as vulgar, sophomoric and thoroughly tasteless as 1999's Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. But what is most annoying is the sequel's capability of inducing laughter even as one hates oneself for so easily succumbing to the total silliness of it all.Read the full review

There is an essential meanness to the entire project, tapping the manipulative power of taunts. Such jokes don't jibe with the times, the culture.Read the full review

What's perhaps most surprising about European Gigolo is its reactionary streak, exemplified by knee-jerk attacks on Europe's equally knee-jerk anti-Americanism. Then again, that seems fitting. The sequel functions as the ultimate Ugly American, good for a few cheap, vulgar laughs and nothing else.Read the full review

Rude, crude and, uh, cosmopolitan, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo waves the flag for R-rated politically incorrect studio comedy but doesn't top the laugh ratio of the first Deuce misadventure.Read the full review

It's not Deuce's satisfied clientele, but the audience, that gets the shaft.Read the full review

At times, "European Gigolo" feels more like an international incident than a movie.Read the full review