Thursday, August 11, 2005

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

Rob Schneider is not for everybody. You either love his movies or hate them, I think they're genius. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo was his first big movie after SNL and funny cameos in various movies, and then came classics like The Animal and The Hot Chick. Yes, classics and I'm not joking. Deuce rocked. It was really funny, and it had heart. And that's the problem with Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, it's funny and gross, but the man-whore does not care for the women as much as in the original, and his solution to their problems is always a boob job.

The he-bitch is once again played by Schneider who's getting old (he's going to be 42 this year) and it shows. He doesn't have the same energy as before but he's still funny. Eddie Griffin is also back as TJ Hicks the pimp playing a bigger role now in the sequel. He's in Amsterdam this time, where prostitution is legal, and so he owns a floating pimp house where he conducts his business.
Deuce is in America, and he's a widow now after his wife was eaten by a shark, and so all he has left is her orthopedic leg. After some trouble though, he ends up going to Europe to visit TJ and that's when bigger problems start as the prostidudes of the old country as being killed one by one by a mysterious assassin known as The Man-Whore Killer. TJ is being accused of being the murderer (and of being gay too, which he's more concerned about) so it's up to Deuce to find out who the real killer is. The only way to do it is by using Diego Verga's (the last man-whore killed) journal, and visit the women he was seeing to try to find out if one of them is the killer. The clientele includes the Big Ear Girl, a huge woman, and Katrina, who was in a accident where her brother was killed in and she lost her nose. Her brother's only living organ was put in place of her nose and now it erects if she gets excited. Truly one of the funniest and grotesque jokes I've ever seen. It was awesome. There's also the Girl with a Hole in her Throat which is really a problem she smokes or drinks.
Besides all that there's the other he-hos, a whole secret society of them actually. They are all friends and don't like Deuce or TJ. They're also very scared of the Man-Whore Killer but that doesn't stop them from moving forward with the 73rd Annual Man-Whore Awards which serve as the climax for the movie.

Rob is funny, the women are crazy ugly with the very hot one of course too who ends up with Deuce. This time is Eva (played by Belgian beauty Hanna Verboom), a girl with around 130 obsessive compulsive problems. Griffin also brings some very funny moments, and the walking failure that is Norm Macdonald too playing one of the European gigolos.
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo is not as good as the first one, but is still funny, and with man-whore names like Heinz Hummer, Enzo Giarraputo and Mariolis Assapopoulos, and the so many offered services they provide like the Mongolian Sticky Bun, the Portuguese Breakfast and the Turkish Snow Cone, this comedy doesn't miss, unless you don't like Rob.