Sure, Deuce Bigalow is not exactly a landmark cinematic accomplishment. It's full of dirty jokes and childish humor, but underneath all of the goofball comedy, it actually comes through with a very healthy message, which is virtually non-existent in these dumb comedies. Deuce Bigalow is a lowly fish tank cleaner, and when one of his important clients has to leave town on business, he hires Deuce to look after his place and especially one of his precious fish, which would not survive on it's own the entire time that Anton (the client) is out of town. Needless to say, Deuce starts screwing around in the lavish apartment and breaks Anton's ridiculously expensive fish tank and then has to come up with $6,000 to replace it and do other repairs around the house.
This is when Deuce has the brilliant idea to assume Anton's job as a gigolo, because he knows he'll never make the money on time cleaning fish tanks. Unfortunately, he gets all of the freaky clients, like the gigantic black woman (`Did you say steak?') and the eight foot tall girl (`That's a huge bitch!'), the girl with narcolepsy that falls asleep at the weirdest times, and of course, they could never leave out a date with Tourette's syndrome, definitely the least amusing of all of them.
So Deuce goes through all of these awful dates, and then he meets a girl on another date that is perfect except she has a prosthetic leg. This is where the healthy message comes in, because Deuce learns that he really loves this girl, and it really doesn't matter to him that she only has one leg. He falls in love with her pretty quick, but the romance of it all, as cheesy as it was, is actually pretty well done. Deuce is trying to get enough money to replace the stuff in Anton's apartment, so he goes on one last date with one of Anton's stunningly beautiful clients, and he even rejects her aggressive sexual advances because he's in love. Sure, he does a pretty graphic strip-tease for her, but you get the point of his intentions.
However, despite the fact that the movie is full of goofy jokes, some of the comedy was pretty good. Deuce's toilet-cleaning father was pretty amusing at some points, and most of all, the detective that was after Deuce and especially Anton (his wife was one of Anton's clients) was hilarious in every scene he was in. `I got a thin dick!' Why is that so funny? It's totally dumb, but it just cracked me up. Maybe it's because he compared it to spaghetti. It was just great how he was at first really threatening to Deuce, and then he would suddenly ask his advice about whether Deuce thought he could make some money in the gigolo business or what he thought that red spot on his penis was (`It wasn't there this morning, I checked!').
As a whole, this is another one of those brainless comedies aimed at immature or uneducated (or both) audiences, but it doesn't fail on just about all levels like most of these types of movies always seem to do. It's a strong and healthy message delivered in questionable packaging.
This is when Deuce has the brilliant idea to assume Anton's job as a gigolo, because he knows he'll never make the money on time cleaning fish tanks. Unfortunately, he gets all of the freaky clients, like the gigantic black woman (`Did you say steak?') and the eight foot tall girl (`That's a huge bitch!'), the girl with narcolepsy that falls asleep at the weirdest times, and of course, they could never leave out a date with Tourette's syndrome, definitely the least amusing of all of them.
So Deuce goes through all of these awful dates, and then he meets a girl on another date that is perfect except she has a prosthetic leg. This is where the healthy message comes in, because Deuce learns that he really loves this girl, and it really doesn't matter to him that she only has one leg. He falls in love with her pretty quick, but the romance of it all, as cheesy as it was, is actually pretty well done. Deuce is trying to get enough money to replace the stuff in Anton's apartment, so he goes on one last date with one of Anton's stunningly beautiful clients, and he even rejects her aggressive sexual advances because he's in love. Sure, he does a pretty graphic strip-tease for her, but you get the point of his intentions.
However, despite the fact that the movie is full of goofy jokes, some of the comedy was pretty good. Deuce's toilet-cleaning father was pretty amusing at some points, and most of all, the detective that was after Deuce and especially Anton (his wife was one of Anton's clients) was hilarious in every scene he was in. `I got a thin dick!' Why is that so funny? It's totally dumb, but it just cracked me up. Maybe it's because he compared it to spaghetti. It was just great how he was at first really threatening to Deuce, and then he would suddenly ask his advice about whether Deuce thought he could make some money in the gigolo business or what he thought that red spot on his penis was (`It wasn't there this morning, I checked!').
As a whole, this is another one of those brainless comedies aimed at immature or uneducated (or both) audiences, but it doesn't fail on just about all levels like most of these types of movies always seem to do. It's a strong and healthy message delivered in questionable packaging.