Deuce Bigelow - Male Gigolo: Little Black Book Edition
Picture: C+
Sound: B- Extras: D Film: D
Some films are so bad that you have to see them to believe
it, though a new and sizable generation of filmgoers are immune to such
criticism thinking nothing can be “that” bad, they are just too young to know
bad. Deuce Bigelow – Male Gigolo:
Little Black Book Edition is the new DVD version of the original
catastrophe of a film that is one of the top reasons box office is a wreck and
will stay that way for a while. It is
beyond belief that this inspired a sequel!
Rob Schneider, plummeting to new lows after so many years
of good work on Saturday Night Live an eternity ago, is the goofy, goony
idiot who either has awful jobs from hell or becomes a seducer of people as
goofy as he. Seems like justice. The films starts out very badly as Deuce is
cleaning a giant aquarium tank naked, but is not done by the opening of business,
so stupidity results. It is unfunny and
gets worse and worse. Schneider just
walks through the film even worse than his usual tired walk-through. Even explaining the title would be torture,
but know you have seen it all before and 88 minutes is like being abducted
hostage against one’s will. The 1.85 X
1 anamorphically enhanced image is flat and Dolby Digital 5.1 mix barely alive,
as are the few extras of three featurettes and the ironic “seven deleted
scenes” from a film that is a record-length compendium. Skip this and give generously to The Red
Cross instead. Hurricane Katrina
victims can use the money more.
- Nicholas Sheffo
