You Don't Mess with the Zohan

2008 "Lather. Rinse. Save the world."
5.6| 1h53m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 06 June 2008 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.youdontmesswiththezohan.com/
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An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- to make his dreams come true.

Genre

Action, Comedy

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Director

Dennis Dugan

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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You Don't Mess with the Zohan Audience Reviews

Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
sue-74122 A cross between Borat and Fading Gigolo. A superhero movie where the superheroes are an Israeli and a Palestinian. Go figure. Many moments of laugh-out-loud rollicking good fun. Ludicrous, insane, outrageous, ridiculous and just very funny. No, it certainly doesn't pass the Bechdel test. Worse, the women, and there are many, all seem to have scripts that require them to swoon at the sight/touch of Adam Sandler's gyrating crotch and buttocks that can catch a flying fish. But who cares? Time to put all sensibility to one side and have a good belly laugh.
merelyaninnuendo You Don't Mess With The ZohanIt seems pointless similar to Adam Sandler's installments but this one is barely funny let along containing a script.
dierregi While I was watching this movie, I thought about the enraged reviews it probably generated. The plot is about a super-Mossad agent (the titular Zohan), who lives in Israel but is fed up with killing and just wants to be a hairdresser. He fakes his death and moves to New York City, where Palestinian and Jewish people live more or less peacefully in the same area. There, he starts working for a Palestinian girl who owns a hair saloon, falls for her and has to face his past. Obviously, one does not watch a Sandler's movie expecting a serious plot, and with Apatow as one of the scriptwriters the level went down even further. I am not a fan of either but I watched the movie on TV hoping for some fun. Turns out that apart from too many juvenile sex jokes and one unforgivable scene with a cat, the story was entertaining in a politically incorrect way. The plot makes fun of several stale movie clichés, such as the indestructible action hero, the irresistible lover, the deadly Arab terrorist, the hummus-eating Jews, etc…On the other hand, some of the jokes were of poor taste or simply idiotic, like the one with the cat.Despite the predictability of the plot and the crudeness of the scenario the movie might deserve a bit more than 1 point, for the following reason: the Zohan is a ridiculous but deadly killing machine and so is his Palestinian counterpart, the Phantom, but once they move far enough from the source of their problems, they do not want to fight anymore. This is clearly simplistic, but just for a moment I thought that the world would be a better place if people would let go of whatever reason they think they have to go on killing. Wouldn't it be better if life was a farce rather than a tragedy?
Troy Putland It shouldn't be a shock to the system that Adam Sandler can still churn out rubbish films. You Don't Mess with the Zohan is at the bottom of those rubbish films. His sporadic Israelian-special-agent-turned-hair-stylist is irritating. His accent is poor, and his mannerisms consist of shaking his crutch, pleasuring elderly ladies and saying 'no' repeatedly. None of these overused jokes are funny, and the same goes for everything else in between. A political stance on the ever present Palestinian - Israeli conflict is the strongest aspect of this comedy. It sits in the background, overshadowed by the silly puns. When Zohan's nemesis Phantom (Turturro) comes to New York, the humour picks up: the Israelis and Palestinians in New York squabble over western matters instead of important ones. A neat move that comes too late, as it's be a waste of 113 minutes of your life to stick around to the end.