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Roger Eberts I Hated Hated Hated This Movie, which gathered some of his most scathing reviews, was a best-seller. This new collection continues the tradition, reviewing not only movies that were at the bottom of the barrel, but also movies that he found underneath the barrel.From Rogers review of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (0 stars): The movie created a spot of controversy in February 2005. According to a story by Larry Carroll of MTV News, Rob Schneider took offense when Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times listed this years Best Picture nominees and wrote that they were ignored, unloved, and turned down flat by most of the same studios that . . . bankroll hundreds of sequels, including a follow-up to Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, a film that was sadly overlooked at Oscar time because apparently nobody had the foresight to invent a category for Best Running Penis Joke Delivered by a Third-Rate Comic.Schneider retaliated by attacking Goldstein in full-page ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. In an open letter to Goldstein, Schneider wrote: Well, Mr. Goldstein, I decided to do some research to find out what awards you have won. I went online and found that you have won nothing. Absolutely nothing. No journalistic awards of any kind. . . . Maybe you didnt win a Pulitzer Prize because they havent invented a category for Best Third-Rate, Unfunny Pompous Reporter Whos Never Been Acknowledged by His Peers. . . . Schneider was nominated for a 2000 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Jar-Jar Binks. But Schneider is correct, and Patrick Goldstein has not yet won a Pulitzer Prize. Therefore, Goldstein is not qualified to complain that Columbia financed Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo while passing on the opportunity to participate in Million Dollar Baby, Ray, The Aviator, Sideways, and Finding Neverland. As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.

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other books by roger ebert
An Illini Century
A Kiss Is Still a Kiss
Two Weeks in the Midday Sun: A Cannes Notebook
Behind the Phantoms Mask
Roger Eberts Little Movie Glossary
Roger Eberts Movie Home Companion (annually 1986-1993)
Roger Eberts Video Companion (annually 1994-1998)
Roger Eberts Movie Yearbook (annually 1999-)
Questions for the Movie Answer Man
Roger Eberts Book of Film: An Anthology
Eberts Bigger Little Movie Glossary
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
The Great Movies
The Great Movies II
Awake in the Dark

with daniel curley
The Perfect London Walk

with gene siskel
The Future of the Movies: Interviews with Martin Scorsese,
Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas

dvd commentary tracks
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Citizen Kane
Crumb
Dark City
Casablanca
Floating Weeds
49 Up

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Your Movie Sucks copyright 2007 by Roger Ebert. All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews. For permission information, write Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, 1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City, MO 64106.

E-ISBN: 978-0-7407-9215-1

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007923419
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Cover photo 2006 Jeff Sciortino

All the reviews in this book originally appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times.

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acknowledgments

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Thanks above all to my wife, Chaz, and my assistants Carol Iwata and Greg Isaac for their invaluable contributions to this book. I owe deep gratitude to my editor, Dorothy OBrien, who kept this project on track while being patient, cheerful, encouraging, and understanding. She is assisted by the equally patient Lesa Reifschneider.

At the Chicago Sun-Times I have been blessed with the expert editing of Michael Cooke, John Barron, Laura Emerick, Miriam DiNunzio, Teresa Budasi, Jeff Wisser, Darel Jevins, Avis Weathersbee, Jeff Johnson, and Marlene Gelfond. At Universal Press Syndicate I am indebted to Sue Roush, and to Michelle Daniel at Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Many thanks are also due to the production staff at Ebert & Roeper: my partner, Richard Roeper, and Don Dupree, David Plummer, Janet LaMonica, David Kodeski, Amanda Kammes, and Nancy Stanley. Last, but certainly not least, my gratitude to Marsha Jordan at WLS-TV.

introduction

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Some of these reviews were written in joyous zeal. Others with glee. Some in sorrow, some in anger, and a precious few with venom, of which I have a closely guarded supply. When I am asked, all too frequently, if I really sit all the way through those movies, my answer is inevitably: Yes, because I want to write the review.

I would guess that I have not mentioned my Pulitzer Prize in a review except once or twice since 1975, but at the moment I read Rob Schneiders extremely unwise open letter to Patrick Goldstein, I knew I was receiving a home-run pitch, right over the plate. Other reviews were written in various spirits, some of them almost benevolently, but of Deuce Bigelow, European Gigolo, all I can say is that it is a movie made to inspire the title of a book like this.

On the other hand, I learned a thing or two. Vincent Gallos The Brown Bunny struck me, when I saw it at Cannes, as definitively bad. I engaged in an exchange of views with the director. When I saw his considerably shorter final cut, I had to concede that I could now see what he was getting at. A critic must be honest.

If a film of yours is included in this volume, take heart and be of good cheer. You may yet rank among the Gallos and not the Schneiders.

Roger Ebert

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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo Your Movie Sucks - image 7

(D IRECTED BY M IKE B IGELOW; STARRING R OB S CHNEIDER , E DDIE G RIFFIN; 2005)

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo makes a living cleaning fish tanks and occasionally prostituting himself. How much he charges, Im not sure, but the price is worth it if it keeps him off the streets and out of another movie. Deuce Bigalow is aggressively bad, as if it wants to cause suffering to the audience. The best thing about it is that it runs for only seventy-five minutes.

Rob Schneider is back, playing a male prostitute (or, as the movie reminds us dozens of times, a man-whore). He is not a gay hustler, but specializes in pleasuring women, although the movies closest thing to a sex scene is when he wears diapers on orders from a giantess. Oh, and he goes to dinner with a woman with a laryngectomy who sprays wine on him through her neck vent.

The plot: Deuce visits his friend T. J. Hicks (Eddie Griffin) in Amsterdam, where T. J. is a pimp specializing in man-whores. Business is bad because a serial killer is murdering male prostitutes, and so Deuce acts as a decoy to entrap the killer. In his investigation, he encounters a woman with a penis for a nose. You dont want to know what happens when she sneezes.

Does this sound like a movie you want to see? It sounds to me like a movie that Columbia Pictures and the films producers (Jack Giarraputo, Adam Sandler, and John Schneider) should be discussing in long, sad conversations with their inner child.

The movie created a spot of controversy in February 2005. According to a story by Larry Carroll of MTV News, Rob Schneider took offense when Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times listed this years Best Picturenominees and wrote that they were ignored, unloved, and turned down flat by most of the same studios that bankroll hundreds of sequels, including a follow-up to Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, a film that was sadly overlooked at Oscar time because apparently nobody had the foresight to invent a category for Best Running Penis Joke Delivered by a Third-Rate Comic.

Schneider retaliated by attacking Goldstein in full-page ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. In an open letter to Goldstein, Schneider wrote:

Dear Patrick Goldstein, Staff Writer for the Los Angeles Times,

My name is Rob Schneider and I am responding to your January 26th front page cover story in the

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