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This film is one of the biggest piles of nonsense I have ever
seen. But at least you know what you're getting (what else would
you expect from a film with this title?) and it does have some
seriously fuuny parts.
Rob Schneider plays the title character, a specialist pond
and aquarium cleaner who has no luck with women. His only daily
thrill is tricking the blonde pet shop attendant to getting
her T-shirt wet. Things start to change for Deuce when he finds
himself cleaning the pond of one Antoine Laconte (Oded Fahr)
a flashy long haired guy who always seems to have a woman on
his arm. Turns out Antoine is one of the city's most sought
after gigolos. Deuce ends up house sitting for Antoine and clumsily
trashes his $6000 aquarium. Of course, the only way Deuce is
going to be able to get the money to repair the aquarium (and
save himself from having a close encounter with one of Antoine's
collection of deadly medieval weapons) is to become a male gigolo
himself. He signs up with fast talking pimp T J Hicks (Eddie
Griffin) and the stage is set for all sorts of low brow gags
and comic situations.
Low brow and bad taste are apt descriptions for most of the
gags in this film which shamelessly pokes fun at fat people,
tall people, blind people, people with fake limbs, sleeping
disorders, and even those with Tourette's Syndrome. Schneider
is in his element as the affable loser, but he struggles to
hold the film together as the main lead. It is really only the
sheer ridiculousness of the jokes that keeps the film watchable.
One sequence has a spoof of the Matrix which comes from so far
out of left field that you are left helpless laughing at the
silliness of it all.
Some of the funniest parts belong to Eddie Griffin with his
'man-whore, he-bitch' talk. Some of the truly dumb parts belong
to William Forsythe as the detective with the embarrassing personal
problems. Sometimes, I'm not even sure why certain scenes were
funny (for example, one of the parts we laughed loudest at was
a blind women dropping an egg on a surprised cat . . . .)
There's not much more to say about this film. If you like lowest
common denominator humour then this is the movie for you. Chances
are though, that you are more likely to find it one of the stupidest
things you've ever seen.
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