Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

Rob Schneider is laughably cast as a romantic lead--and a gigolo--in this occasionally funny, low-brow comedy about a minimum wage fish tank cleaner who house-sits for a call-boy, accidentally destroys his $6,000 custom aquarium and becomes a substitute prostitute to pay for the damage (as if any woman paying for sex would still be in the mood after finding this troll on her doorstep). Ninety percent of the jokes come at the expense of a parade of physically and/or physiologically challenged sex clients, making fun of fat women, tall women, the blind, narcolepsy, amputees and victims of Tourette's Syndrome. Extraordinary suspension of disbelief is required when the cute girl with the wooden leg (Arija Bareikis, The Myth of Fingerprints) actually becomes attracted to him for some inexplicable reason. Not recommended. (R. Blackwelder)[DVD Review—Mar. 21, 2006—Touchstone, 88 min., R, $19.99—Making its second appearance on DVD, 1999's Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (Little Black Book Edition) features a nice-looking transfer and DVD extras including five “Fly on the Set” behind-the-scenes segments (12 min.), seven deleted scenes (11 min.), the nine-minute “Making the Deuce” featurette, a “Director's Video Diary” featuring Mike Mitchell (4 min.), and trailers. Bottom line: a so-so extras package for a notably bad film.]