You've
most likely read other reviewers’ rants about the crudeness of story
and poor execution of this film. Yes, Deuce Bigelow is crude and
poorly executed, but we laughed from start to finish. What a welcome
relief to be able to laugh at the obsession of men to be so charismatic
and attractive that beautiful women pay to sleep with them. What a
delight to laugh at the fear of women that they won’t be loved because
of some physical or personality shortcoming. What an amusing unmasking
of our silly and desperate acts to be more seductive and more desirable.
Adam Sandler was involved as the executive producer of
this film, and his fans will detect Sandler’s style of gross-out humor
which leads to a touching revelation. Maybe, the idea of winning women’s
affection by making them feel good about themselves sounds like an
instruction from a self-help book, but it is a truth we ought to be
reminded of for the sake of being more genuine with ourselves and with
those around us.
Deuce Bigelow (Rob Schneider)) is a klutzy fish-tank
cleaner who dreams of two things: getting a date, and living near the
beach. He gets to live on the beach when a dashing, wealthy gigolo (Oded
Fehr) asks him to watch his sick fish. Of course, being a klutz that he
is, Deuce messes up the apartment. He decides that the only way to make
enough money to put things in order is to become a gigolo himself. The
women he encounters come with a variety of repulsive flaws, and Deuce
does everything he can to avoid having sex with them. In that, he
becomes most beloved for finding unique ways of making each woman
comfortable with herself.
By being forced to satisfy women he is not attracted
to, Deuce learns how ultimately simple it is to make people happy if one
just pays enough attention.
Deuce Bigelow is a simple
and hilarious look at what it means to just be one’s self and to allow
others to do the same. The long box-office presence of this film proves
that with a little heart, even gross-out humor and poor execution become
engaging.
