Deuce Bigalow: European Gigalo
Special Edition (2005)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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In the second coming of his runaway sex worker saga, American man-whore Deuce Bigalow (Rob Schneider) finds two reasons to go Dutch: legal weed and legal prostitution. He's reunited with his former pimp T.J. Hicks (Eddie Griffin) in Amsterdam, home of the Man-Whore Union, an academy for wanna-be Casanovas. Recently the business has gone south (and not merely to please a woman) due to a man-whore killer who's been knocking off Europe's most-skilled male sluts. When T.J. is blamed for the murder spree, Deuce has to convince local authorities that his friend isn't knocking off the competition. Making the ultimate sacrifice, Deuce returns to the gigolo game to discover if the killer could be a disgruntled client.

Crammed with more scatalogical humor and drug references than Sam Kinison's stand-up, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo is a comedy that stands up well beside any of Adam Sandler's slapstick. Schneider's average-guy routine helps buoy the raunchy antics, especially when he plays it straight escorting an increasingly twisted series of freaks and shut-ins. Events around the Man-Whore Union are hilarious, especially during Norm Macdonald's cameo as a disgruntled Scotsman handling vagina vocational training. You may not leave the movie knowing how to use its menagerie of multicultural sex moves (e.g. the Irish Facial, the Hungarian Reach-Around), but Schneider's international house of pratfalls proves hilariously tasteless.

Wanna get in the gigolo game? In addition to its two deleted scenes, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo DVD bonuses include four hilarious "So You Want To Be a Man-Whore" infomercials, a quick "Man-Ho 101" tutorial and a two-part "Behind the Gigolo: The Making of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" documentary. Also included is Comedy Central's half-hour Reel Comedy special, in which Schneider and Griffin cruise the canals of Amsterdam to discuss Americans vs. Europeans in terms of who is more hygienic and, more importantly, who does it better? In case you want more, the featurette "T.J.'s Float Crib" takes you aboard the Pimp of the Sea, the film's tricked out hydraulic houseboat.