Review – Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo

Is there such a thing as a “female gigolo”? The question suggests the level of humor that pervades this picture, almost entirely written for (and quite possibly by) 12-year-old boys. Rob Schneider stars as a professional fish tank cleaner who trashes a high-class gigolo’s apartment while house-sitting. Naturally in order to pay for the damage before the violence-prone owner returns, he has to start doing the guy’s job. He ends up dating women who are for one reason or another not datable in the conventional sense, such as a woman with Tourette’s (Amy Pohler) whom he takes to a baseball game so her loud, random swearing won’t be any different from anyone else in the crowd. In the end the picture tries to make some kind of point about how women who aren’t supermodels can have trouble getting dates, but the moral is a feeble graft onto a parade of sophomoric sex jokes. See if desperate