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You Dont Mess with the Zohan
2008
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You Dont Mess with the Zohan
Positive Reviews
39
Negative reviews
28
Average Rating
2.6
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3.0
Forget Monty Python, You Dont Mess With the Zohan is a circus that never really flies.
EW
3.8
This is a mighty hymn of and to vulgarity, and either you enjoy it, or you dont.I found myself enjoying it a surprising amount of the time, even thoug ..
Rogerebert
3.0
By the time Phantom and Zohan face off again, youll have been beaten into submission.And youll be laughing.
Common Sense Media
1.5
Yet The Washington Post found that just four adults have been convicted for failing to lock up the guns used.
2.0
But the satire of Middle Eastern relations is shallow and obvious a running gag of the many uses Zohan has for hummus goes nowhere while the more bawd ..
Screen Daily
3.0
But honestly, does anyone really want Sandler to grow up, all the way
1.3
He tries to get by on charm, glosses over plot holes with gross jokes and tries the audiences patience.As a result, what might have been an ambitious ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
A strange, mostly enjoyable mix of big political questions and crude comedy, Zohan overcomes its skeletal plotting and uneven gag ratio through Sandle ..
4.0
Sandlers intentionally insensitive comedy sledgehammer will leave you laughing your ass off.
Cinema Blend
2.0
No one gets hurt with hair, as Zohan says to his parents when explaining why he wants to retire from the states Special Ops team, what with the killin ..
Ny Daily News
3.5
That said, the screenplay was filled with enough legitimately funny one liners, visual action gags and Middle Eastern humor, to keep me smiling despit ..
JoBlo
2.0
You really do have to sit through a lot of stupid stuff to get to the few decent laughs, and even those are short lived.
Screen Rant
3.2
The Spy Who Dumped Me is an action comedy withwell, it has action.The Spy Who Dumped Me is an action comedy withwell, it has action.
Philly
3.1
While Zohan purveys the familiar Sandler mix of Jewvenile humor and geriatric love (Zohan does biddy hair, then does them), its less about a manic man ..
Philly
3.0
Some of us grow tired of the superhero movie genre where invincible stand ins for all thats right and good slaughter the bad guys and gals.
Spirituality And Practice
2.5
As a two hour movie, it lacks the comedic energy to rise above a middling crowd of forgettable summer movies.
ReelViews
1.3
But you first have give the people something to laugh at.A funny movie, say.
Tv Guide
3.1
But for all that, the films ability to broach the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in a mainstream film without preaching deserves some kudos.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.0
As it is, its hit and miss but should please fans of the Sandler genre.
2.5
But really, this is still a silly Adam Sandler comedy and its got a lot of juvenile jokes going for it.
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
Some of the comedy is inspired and some of it is downright retarded.
Lariat
3.0
That lets all be friends attitude is a good one, and there are some solid ideas here.
Eric Ds Nider
1.8
There are a few big laughs (I loved when Turturro crawled around on a ceiling like Spider Man), but too many of the jokes are lame, crass and done to ..
News Review
2.0
Its more cute than funny.Although at least it has the nerve to address the seriousness of the Israel Palestine situation with a bit of hopeful silline ..
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
That said, its fair to say that not all the gags work and the film is at least fifteen minutes too long.You Dont Mess With The Zohan is definitely wor ..
View London
3.0
But these days, you take your laughs where you find them.Its a pretty good scattershot comedy.
Cs Monitor
2.5
ADAM Sandler, the most neu tered major star in Holly wood even in his romantic comedies, finally gets sexy as an Israeli commando turned New York hair ..
New York Post
3.5
Theres plenty of crude humor and off color ethnic stereotyping to keep Sandlers usual fanbase happy, but Zohan is unusually committed to treating all ..
Film Journal International ..
2.5
Thats to say that its not very good, andunless youre in Sandlers teen fanboy demographicyou probably wont find it terribly funny.
Mountain X
2.0
But Dennis Dugan, the auteur behind last summers I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, isnt the director to pull nuance out of his star.And with Sandler ..
Npr
3.8
Theres a spirit of avant garde goofiness to the new Adam Sandler movie that sets it apart from his usual sophomoric work.Sprung from the fertile comic ..
Star Tribune
4.5
Its not like Zohan isnt a mess.It is a mess, beset by random subplots that loom out of nowhere and narrative detours that the most cursory of script e ..
2.5
Rambo is a gritty portrait of realism compared to Sandlers character.
Toronto Star
2.0
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Emanuellevy
2.0
This is a silly, crass comedy about a badass Israeli commando who secretly longs to be a hairdresser specialising in 1980s stylings.
Guardian
1.0
Probably the best way to start involves complaining because theres nothing funny about it, except for avid Sandler fans.
Reel Talk Reviews
2.0
Sicario: Day of the Soldado Throughout Sicario: Day of the Soldado, characters talk about things needing to be clean, which pretty much means that a l ..
Q Network
1.0
There are so many preposterous sight gags that some are bound to raise a laugh, but the plot gets sillier and the jokes filthier as the film gets long ..
Daily Mail
3.0
This is low brow humour with political bite and theres plenty of bad taste for the willing, while Sandler pushes the envelope some of the way as he of ..
3.5
Captivating, inventive and souffle light...family audiences will eat it up!
Susang Ranger
3.0
Digital spectacle is both too much and too little, and its beginning to put some of us in a funk of disappointment and boredom.
New Yorker
3.5
It is simultaneously a little bit vulgar and a little bit sentimental and comes out as a virtually bullet proof blend for the mass, summertime audienc ..
Time
3.0
Fortunately, the film is so outrageous that when it succeeds, its gut bustlingly funny.
Bullz-Eye
2.5
With a premise better suited for a series of skits than a feature film, Zohan eventually falls apart in a heap of pointless celebrity cameos and repet ..
Las Vegas Weekly
3.0
Zohan has many signature Sandler moments and true blue fans should be pleased.
Hollywood
2.0
Like too many comedies these days, the humor is based more on the concept than execution... and the scripting is lazy. But there is a weird mixed mess ..
Seattle Pi
0.0
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Tony Medley
2.0
As comedy ideas go, its not a bad one.Its not super original but its just absurd enough that it has the chance to be truly funny.
2.5
Youve got to give Sandler that there are easier ways to grab cash than selling Sony on a comedy about an Israeli counter terrorist who wants to be a h ..
Groucho Reviews
3.0
Things work out, of course, to everyones satisfaction: there are a few political gags that have a veneer of audacity, but in essence, the movie takes ..
The Age
3.0
The central character may be a spin on Borat, and many of the jokes a touch familiar, but the whole package is so unbelievably silly, youll find yours ..
Mirror
2.0
Even Sandlers co writers, Saturday Night Live veteran Robert Smigel and the usually impressive Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin) cant i ..
Stuff
2.5
Moviegoers didnt seem to mind watching soldiers run around the desert in an overpriced popcorn movie like Transformers, but the moment things turned s ..
Christianity Today
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
1.5
Its just the same old Sandler formula of uninspired gross out humour based upon a big concept.
Matts Movie Reviews
2.0
Its a decent comedy construct: a film one unforgiving editorial pass away from greatness.
Brian Or Ndorf
3.8
While You Dont Mess With The Zohan certainly wont win any awards this year (okay, maybe an MTV award), its a delightful return to comedy form for Adam ..
0.0
You Dont Mess With The Zohan You Dont Mess With The Zohan has so many jokes about sex, male genitalia and homophobia, you have to wonder what star Ada ..
Waffle Movies
3.5
This script worked its magic best when you temporarily forgot it was trying ever so delicately to roil you silly out of your seat but fell flat when i ..
Hollywood Chicago
3.0
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Entertainment Times Online ..
3.1
Theres even a joke about a homemade bomb, though believe it or not, its funny.
Chron
3.0
Its hard to imagine anyone but Sandler getting studio bosses to take this pitch seriously.
Metro
1.5
The laughs ring hollow and the slapstick violence seems in bad taste.
What So
3.5
You Dont Mess With the Zohan is as messy as comedies come. Much of it, though, is an inspired, hilarious mess.
Wsj
3.5
But director Dennis Dugan knows his way around shin whacking slapstick, and Sandler is mesmerizing.
Ny Mag
4.0
The best Mossad agent turned hair stylist movie ever made. Seriously, its actually really good and fun.
Can Mag
2.5
For all its flaws, Zohan remains a tolerable if inane piece of entertainment that scores points for trying to, though not always succeeding at, explor ..
Movies Ign
1.5
At leastwas upfront about the cartoony roots of its avant garde splashiness.)is a long, long trip through the museum, during which the sheer weight of ..
Cine Passion
2.0
Inept jokes, incompetent sight gags, and a lack of comic timing make this comedy boring and limp as a wet noodle.
Film Critic 1963 Typepad
2.5
When I watched Zohan, I felt like I was watching two different films...both of them not very good.
Crazed Fan Boy
3.5
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The Nation
3.0
Unfortunately, the engaging first twenty minutes leads to a lackluster second act; once Zohan takes up the shears the film begs for its own cut.The ga ..
Edge Boston
4.0
Raunchy and uneven, You Dont Mess With the Zohan is a sporadically hilarious movie that makes good use of Adam Sandlers considerable if oft neglected ..
Ar Kansas Online
3.8
One of the best stupid funny race driven romantic comedies starring hairy horny men featuring celebrity cameos in years.Certainly the funniest about t ..
Sea Coast Online
1.5
In truth, even a couple days after seeing, I cant really remember much of what I laughed at.
Stop Smiling Online
1.5
Its primarily a satire sandwich garnished with some hilarious Sandleresque slapstick.
Daily Gazette
1.5
The high handed premise doesnt always work in Zohan but you have to admire the chutzpah in trying it.
Bold Life (Hendersonville, ..
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