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26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachBaltimore SunChris KaltenbachSurprisingly funny, a deep-down-good-hearted take on that oldest of comedy conventions, the ill-prepared rube caught up in a situation that somehow never gets the best of him.
- 50TV Guide MagazineSteve SimelsTV Guide MagazineSteve SimelsIt's actually a sweet, often very funny story about a schlemiehl redeemed by love.
- 50L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonL.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonIt's short, this movie, an attribute Sandler himself might take heed of, and if the teenagers in the back row are laughing harder and more often, you might at least find yourself smiling (guiltily) every few minutes.
- 40Film.comTom KeoghFilm.comTom KeoghRob Schneider's stab at an "Ace Ventura"-like gamble for stardom.
- 38USA TodaySusan WloszczynaUSA TodaySusan WloszczynaA pathetically dumb attempt to string a bunch of second-rate skits together like a garland of rotten cranberries.
- 30Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorAfter loosening us up with some irresistible shtick that rigorously fulfills genre expectations, the movie subtly, systematically begins to break down familiar tropes in the depiction of attractiveness, attraction, and heterosexual courtship.
- 25Philadelphia InquirerDesmond RyanPhiladelphia InquirerDesmond RyanThe jokes are unabashedly pitched at 12-year-old boys, with flatulence, masturbation and excretions as the leading themes.
- 25Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJust when you're sure that Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo can't get any less funny, the movie douses the trailer's best gag, as that prosthetic leg turns out to be attached to Deuce's true love.
- 20VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerA sign that the Sandler comedy empire is expanding and reaching new depths of pure gross-out stupidity.
- 16Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula NechakSeattle Post-IntelligencerPaula NechakAn insufferably insipid comedy with a cruel subtext.