Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo is a 2005 American comedy movie. It was directed by Mike Bigelow and was produced by John Schneider, Adam Sandler, and Jack Giarraputo. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo was released on August 12, 2005. It is the sequel to the 1999 movie Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.
| Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Mike Bigelow |
| Produced by | John Schneider Adam Sandler Jack Giarraputo |
| Screenplay by | Rob Schneider David Garrett Jason Ward |
| Story by | Rob Schneider |
| Starring | Rob Schneider Eddie Griffin Jeroen Krabbé Til Schweiger Kostas Sommer |
| Music by | James L. Venable |
| Cinematography | Marc Felperlaan |
| Edited by | Peck Prior Sandy S. Solowitz |
Production company | Happy Madison Productions Out of the Blue... Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date | August 12, 2005 |
Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $22 million[1] |
| Box office | $45,109,561[1] |
Cast
- Sean Astin as David "Dave" Morgan
- Brendan Fraser as Linkovich "Link" Chomovsky
- Pauly Shore as Stanley "Stoney" Brown
- Megan Ward as Robyn Sweeney
- Robin Tunney as Ella
- Michael DeLuise as Matt Wilson
- Patrick Van Horn as Phil
- Dalton James as Will
- Rick Ducommun as Mr. Brush
- Jonathan Quan as Kim
- Rose McGowan as Nora
- Michole White as Kathleen
- Mariette Hartley as Mrs. Morgan
- Richard Masur as Mr. Morgan
- Ellen Blain as Tenna Morgan
- Sandra Hess as Cave Nug
- Mike Diamente as Steve Morgan
- Erick Avari as Raji
- Gerry Bednob as Kashmir
Reception
The movie gained negative reviews from critics and holds a 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[2] At the Razzie Awards, the movie was nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Remake or Sequel and Worst Screen Couple. Schneider won for Worst Actor.[3]
Move critic Roger Ebert gave the movie a "zero star" rating and called it "aggressively bad, as if it wants to cause suffering to the audience" and on his show Ebert and Roeper "completely beneath contempt."[4] He named it as the worst movie of 2005, and he included it in his list of most hated movies.[5] Ebert also told off Schneider because of his obsessive defense of the movie series, referring to an incident where Los Angeles Times movie critic Patrick Goldstein called Schneider a "third-rate comic." Schneider responded by saying that Goldstein was a "third-rate, unfunny pompous reporter" and that he was not qualified to review the movie because he was not a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Ebert, who had won the Pulitzer Prize, decided to criticize Schneider in his own review.[4] He ended his review with the quote "Your movie sucks" which later became the title of a book that was published by Ebert.
Both Ebert and Schneider would later settle their differences, and Schneider sent a bouquet of flowers and his well wishes to Ebert who was recovering from thyroid cancer. Ebert would respond by saying "Rob Schneider might (in my opinion) have made a bad movie. He is not a bad man."[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2015-02-08.
- ↑ "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2015-02-08.
- ↑ "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo - Awards". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2015-02-08.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo Movie Review (2005)". Roger Ebert. Retrieved 2015-02-08.
- ↑ "Ebert's Most Hated". Roger Ebert. Retrieved 2015-02-08.
- ↑ "A Bouquet Arrives..." Roger Ebert. Retrieved 2015-02-08.
