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# Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2034/
- Published: 2005-08-15T18:04:04.000Z
- Updated: 2005-08-15T18:04:04.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Entertainment, #wpChunk

Eric Cox reviews the movie. [Link](http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18691/article%5Fdetail.asp?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpts:

> The Farrelly Brothers' *There's Something About Mary* (1998) gained notoriety for pushing the envelope of risqué bodily humor.

> If the original *Deuce Bigelow* (1999) pushed it a little further, its sequel doesn't push the envelope at all; instead, it points a flamethrower at the envelope and disintegrates it. . .

> There's no denying that the film is as funny as it is disgusting, so long as one is able to accept it for what it is, but what it represents–an all-out attempt to be as flagrantly tasteless as possible–is surely a bad thing for the movie industry. . .

> Indeed, the problem presented by a film like *Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo* is not so much a moral one as one of taste and of economics. Whenever a film like this does phenomenally well, studios try to capitalize by making even more outrageous comedies. . .

> The Giant Clicking Sound you hear are the furious keystrokes of two-thousand writers in Los Angeles attempting to write the next big laugh-fest of human excretion.

> It wouldn't be such a problem if the big studios produced one or two films of this type every summer for the teens and otherwise made comedies aimed at adults. Oh what a wonderful world it would be if the *Deuce Bigelows* could sit happily alongside the *Jerry Maguires* in the movie theaters, giving us a clear choice, but that is not the way it works.

> Instead, when a formulaic film becomes wildly successful, a glut of similar scripts flood the marketplace, and the studios devote a good deal of time and money trying to develop one or two imitations to be released within the year.

> As a result, a film like this one could cause studios to devote even less money and energy in comedies intended for mature adults. In the short-term, at least. Until another *Sideways* gets made and becomes a hit and everyone dumps their potty jokes and tries to recreate it.

> But don't hold your breath. *Deuce Bigelow: European Gigolo* has lowered the bar a little further for future Hollywood fare, and believe it, Hollywood will be all too happy to go there.