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Not surprisingly, a slew of bad reviews for this bottom-feeding comedy about a fish tank cleaner who falls into the gigolo business by accident: "Among devotees of comedy, Deuce Bigalow is for the undemanding" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). Some go so far as to insult the cast, calling star Rob Schneider "a runty fellow of no particular talent" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). One reviewer pipes up in the movie's defense, calling Deuce "an hour-and-a-half goof on kinky sex, bathroom humor and inner happiness … a considerable cut above the crop of recent features by other SNL alums" (which is not saying much) and that it's "funnier than it deserves to be, not to mention rather sweet in a sophomoric, manwhore-with-a-heart-of-gold kind of way" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). (Click here to find out more about Rob Schneider.)
The Beatles produced sophomoric concept albums, like "Magical Mystery Tour," but they never made anything as fake as "Their Satanic Majesties Request."
since Tootsie " (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Critics also like David Mamet's screenplay for its jabs at the news media, out-of-touch liberals, and "everything that's awful in American life nowadays" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Dissenting, The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin bemoans the film's "sophomoric" humor and its "cozy, video-ready cynicism."
Here's my nominee for worst movie of the year (complete category should be: "Worst Movie of the Year That Assumedly Adult Male Reviewers Slathered Over"): There's Something About Mary --a pathetically sophomoric, penis-obsessed mess that wouldn't even appeal to Larry Flynt!
It is the sophomoric deviousness of the perjury that is an insult to our intelligence.
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