I don't know what it is exactly about You Don't Mess with the Zohan, but this could be one of the first Sandler projects (in the last few years) that I've been excited about catching in theaters. The clips and trailers look absolutely hilarious, but is the film any good?
Zohan Reviewed
Some of the first reviews have appeared online for You Don't Mess with the Zohan and, as hoped, the film is getting some positive marks.
CinemaBlend You Don’t Mess with the Zohan would fit more comfortably on a shelf next to Austin Powers than it would Knocked Up. Zohan is that kind of character. It’s hilarious because it’s so far over the top, funny because it’s so completely insane that you have no choice but to laugh. There is no smart, sympathetic, affecting story here to drive the plot. Just out of control, sometimes risky, almost certainly offensive comedy driven by fun with stereotypes, fun with penis jokes, and fun with Sandler’s uber-spy Zohan character.
Hollywood has made more than its fair share of movies about terrorism and the Middle East recently. All were met with complete and utter audience disinterest. Zohan is technically another one of those movies, but it approaches the topic as irresponsibly as possible.
Showbiz Forum
When you knock out a movie as crude and vulgar as “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan,” you’d better have an A-1 entertainer in the leading role. Not a problem. Adam Sandler, perfect for the role and perhaps one of our country’s top five comic actors, sheds the nebbish/mentally-disturbed demeanor he was saddled with as borderline psychotic Charlie Fineman in “Reign Over Men” and bench-warming nerd Bobby Boucher Jr. in “Waterboy” to emerge as a combination Spiderman and Israeli James Bond, helped quite a bit by Judd Apatow’s writing talent (you’ll guess which scenes came from his pen) and from Adam Sandler’s fertile imagination. Directed by Dennis Dugan as though the helmer told the crew to take off in all zany directions and stepped aside, “Zohan” goes for the belly laughs while squeezing in sentiment in both a romantic attachment of the superhero and a political fantasy: “See, Arabs and Israelis can all get along in the same neighborhood as long as they’re thousands of miles away from the Middle East.”
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan opens to theatres on June 6th.
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