The first movie from the awful Happy Madison (Adam Sandler’s film company) was “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo”. It’s a rather bad comedy film starring Rob Schneider (“The Animal”, “Surf Ninjas”) that combines unfunny antics with equally unfunny dialog. There are a few brief moments of humour that are crushed by the rest of the film.

Deuce Bigalow (Schneider) is an aquarium cleaner that housesits for a gigolo (Oded Fehr “The Mummy”). When he accidentally wrecks the place, Deuce finds himself forced to become a gigolo to pay to repair the damage he has done. Most of his clients are very weird but ultimately ends up falling in love with the vaguely normal one.

Rob Schneider is not particularly funny. As you might have guessed with this type of film, Deuce Bigalow is not very good at being a gigolo and manages to do anything and everything but make love to his clients. Schneider’s reliance on toilet humour is pretty lame and the scene where he seductively dances for a client is almost as bad as when Mike Myers danced in his underwear in the first “Austin Powers” movie. The client with narcolepsy is mildly funny but the rest of them are just strange and/or annoying. William Forsythe (“The Devil’s Rejects”) is terrible as Detective Fowler. Eddie Griffin (“Undercover Brother”) is also not funny as Deuce’s pimp. Oded Fehr is mildly amusing here.

“Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” is a film that will appeal to those that enjoyed films such as “Billy Madison”, “The Animal” and “Big Daddy”. There are a few bits and pieces that are undeniably kind of funny such as when he tricks an attractive woman working in a pet shop to unintentionally wet her shirt. However, much of the movie is not remotely funny and there is just no getting away from that fact.