Deuce Bigalow (Rob Schneider) is a bumbling clueless fish-expert aquarium cleaner that no woman likes. He cleans male gigolo Antoine's aquarium. Antoine is going on a trip and Deuce is asked to take care of his beloved sick fish. He destroys the tank and needs $6k in 3 weeks to replace it. He tries his hand in the gigolo business and attracts pimp T.J. Hicks (Eddie Griffin). Deuce becomes a highly specialized man-whore taking on unusual clients.

This is a really stupid comedy and it kinda works. Rob Schneider is a sleazy clueless idiot but not the hateful one that he sometimes plays. Eddie Griffin is hilarious. It also features Amy Poehler as Ruth with Tourettes. The romance with Arija Bareikis is cute. I understand critics who ridicule the movie's idiocy but I laughed. It's that simple.

Tourette's Syndrome shouldn't be funny—I'm sure it's very distressing for those inflicted—but try keeping a straight face during the Tourette's scene in Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo…. it's nigh on impossible. While this film might be totally crass and unsophisticated silliness from start to finish, and occasionally scrapes its laughs from the bottom of the barrel (or, in some cases, a water-snail tank),it still manages to be a hugely enjoyable way to waste an evening.

Rob Schneider plays Deuce, a professional fish-tank cleaner who unwittingly enters the man-whoring business after an unfortunate fish-tank related accident while house-sitting for a gigolo leaves him needing to find $6000 in the space of a few weeks. Of course, being far from an Adonis, Deuce doesn't have much of a say about the standard of his clientèle, and there we have the movie's main joke: all of his customers have something wrong with them. Narcolepsy, gigantism, obesity, uncontrollable swearing, and missing limbs: anything goes and even though it's all incredibly un-PC, it's extremely hard not to find funny.

In fact, Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo delivers so much unashamedly low-brow hilarity that I'm even willing to forgive its star Rob Schneider for his part in the Judge Dredd debacle of 1995. And that's saying something.

Among a huge list in 1999 of comedies (American Pie, Bowfinger, Dogma, and South Park topping that list),Deuce Bigaow has to be included. It is a original comedy about a fish man (Rob Schnieder) who becomes a man-prostitute in order to pay for a 6,000 dollar tank. What follows in the film are some of the best and most outrageous antics to come from a SNL type of character movie. The premise sounds dumb, to be sure (as most others are),but Schnieder makes this worth watching with his consistently funny performance. Norm McDonald makes a cameo. A-