"Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" (Ebert 0 Star review ends with peerless dismissal) (Humor)

rogerebert.com ^ | 8/12/05 | Roger Ebert

[sully777]

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

SUCKED!

There was no hidden meaning. There was no value. And the gay orgy--Ebertesque at its finest.

[Borges]

You do know Ebert is straight right? He's married.

[Rakkasan1]

pretty hard to live up to the outstanding movie he had in
"Manimal"

[sharkhawk]

I think he might have said Happy Happy Joy Joy, but was definately not a major part.

[Choose Ye This Day]

You seem awfully quick to defend Ebert.

He said the gay orgy was "Ebertesque." He did not say Ebert was gay. But it is well-established that Ebert often prefers films that are dark, disturbed, and deal with various perversions. He seems to revel in the tawdry merely for the sake of tawdriness. He just calls it "art." Anything that makes God-fearing red-state Americans squirm and feel uncomfortable, Ebert loves.

It's fairly rare that Ebert praises movies that have redeeming values.

[Borges]

I praise him because, at his best, he's a terrific film critic and scholar. He's not always at his best. Anyway he usually points out how whatever tawdriness there is functions in the context of a given film and its not jsut there for pernicious reasons. Remember he hated Blue Velvet.

[Clemenza]

It would've been better if they simply change the title to: "Clemenza in Paris: June 2005."

[Clemenza]

Russ Meyer had great taste in women. He was married to Kitten Natividad after all.

[Clemenza]

Did you ever see the SNL skit where Siskel and Ebert reviewed gay porno films?

[Borges]

I haven't but that sounds amusing. SNL has been so bad for so many years it's hard to even leave it on for more then a few moments at a time.

[youthgonewild]

I swear in that movie, Arnold became president in the future, very eerie.

[pissant]

You like the gals with the hairy legs??

[subterfuge]

"I wouldn't have placed Schneider as high as third-rate. Fifth-rate or sixth-rate maybe."

I've always thought Schneider was pretty funny in a sidekick kind of way. I read an article not long ago that said that Hollywood is so desperate for leading men that they put these guys like Martin Short who are great sidekicks and try put them into lead roles. It just doesn't work.

[sharktrager]

The general consensus has been for years that she's his beard.

[AmishDude]

This movie doesn't deserve it, but I've noticed a lot of Ebert's reviews don't actually discuss the movie.

[x]

Okay, but if Ebert hates it can it really be that bad?

[Borges]

He's generally a good film critic.

[x]

I got really sick of the "How can you like that? How can you have any self-respect or consider yourself at all intellectual?" routine he used on poor, timid Siskel. It may all have been in fun or part of the shtick, but it could get pretty unpleasant. From what I can see he chose the most unthreatening cohost the second time around, so as not to challege his judgments. The way he'd take out his frustrations on the usual suspects and give big stars a pass when they made bad movies was also off-putting. So he may not be that bad as a film critic, but there are plenty of them to go around, so I don't have any problem ignoring Ebert or Maltin or Shalit or any other pop guru.

[x]

Actually, "Deuce Bigelow, American Gigolo" was awful, and yes, the sequel can be that bad and worse, but I couldn't resist the dig at Ebert.