You Don't Mess With the Zohan (Unrated Extended Single-Disc Edition)
by Dennis Dugan
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Actor: Adam Sandler, Emmanuelle Chriqui, John Turturro, Lainie Kazan, Nick SwardsonDirector: Dennis Dugan
Brand: SANDLER,ADAM
Producer: Adam Sandler
Writer: Adam Sandler
Producer: Aldric La'auli Porter
Producer: Barry Bernardi
Producer: Daryl Kass
Writer: Judd Apatow
Writer: Robert Smigel
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 27746
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of You Don't Mess With the Zohan (Unrated Extended Single-Disc Edition)
DVD Review: Read the Title of the Movie and Let It Be
Summary: 2 Stars
Once upon a time Adam Sandler used to be a very funny comedian. He was on Saturday Night Live back in the day of its 2nd Renaissance when the group could be funny without having to mock politicians all the time. He had some hilarious comedy albums and he made some very funny movies, e.g. HAPPY GILMORE, BILLY MADISON, and THE WATERBOY. Maybe it's because he's gotten older, but Sandler's movies just aren't as funny as they used to be and YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN is one of the worst he's ever made (it's right next to LITTLE NICKY) and will probably get several 2008 Razzie nominations.
The movie centers around one Zohan Dvir (Adam Sandler). Zohan is the top super soldier of the Israeli army. Sometimes his methods are questionable, but no one questions his results. Zohan is very good at what he does: fighting terrorists, mainly Palestinians. He is well respected and well paid for the work he does. But Zohan is tired of being a killer and dreams of coming to the United States and becoming a hair dresser. So, when he is assigned to fight his nemesis, who is just known as The Phantom (John Turturro), Zohan fakes his own death and travels to the U.S.A. to fulfill his dream. After being rejected from the big styling studios, he eventually finds work in a small beauty salon owned by a beautiful Palestinian woman named Dalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui). Zohan soon becomes a sensation by pampering the older, mature, and sometimes very mature women who visit the salon and taking them into the backroom to give them "the sticky". Surprisingly, he's also a decent stylist for those looking for a retro mid-1970s or early 1980s look. Zohan is smitten with Dalia, but she is Palestinian and he is an Israeli.
There are some scenes in YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN that are hilarious and show a spark of the comic genius that Sandler used to have in all of his movies. One-liner and dirty jokes also abound in the Hebrew and Arabic languages that are used intermittently throughout the movie. But most people don't know any Hebrew or Arabic and the very funny scenes are quite rare. Most of the time the movie seems to be making the same joke over and over and over and over. I felt like Sandler and company thought that if the joke was funny the first time then it has to be hilarious the 50th time and if you didn't find it funny they were going to force you to find it funny by beating you over the head with it. There's also a lot in the film that is very crude and at times almost raunchy. While I'm not disturbed by a little of that humor, the overkill was just too much. When I first saw the movie, I went with my one brother who is a huge Adam Sandler fan and owns every movie and DVD that's available with Sandler in it. Even he said the movie was his least favorite Sandler movie and groaned several times while watching the movie.
YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN actually has parts that are full of satire about stereotyping, race relations, conflict in the Middle East, etc. These are important issues that should be addressed and the basic "plot" of the movie provides a perfect set-up for doing that. Unfortunately, the satire is drowned and buried in other attempts at what is supposed to be humor.
Description of You Don't Mess With the Zohan (Unrated Extended Single-Disc Edition)
Genre: Comedy
Rating: UN
Release Date: 7-OCT-2008
Media Type: DVD
If You Don't Mess with the Zohan feels like an extended and crazed sketch from Saturday Night Live, there are reasons for that. Zohan's star and SNL alumnus Adam Sandler is joined by several fellow cast members (in uncredited cameo roles) from his years on the NBC show. But Sandler also co-wrote the film's absurdist script with SNL veteran writer and sometime-performer Robert Smigel. Echoes of a few of their classic skits on the show--built around high-strung Israeli characters obsessed with disco and selling junk electronics out of a New York shop--are in revisited in Zohan and are a lot of fun to see again. Zohan is unbridled nonsense thrown at the wall, but with a sunny disposition that proves surprisingly persuasive. Sandler stars as an Israeli intelligence operative who fakes his death to reinvent himself in New York City as a hairdresser. Putting the lie to assumptions that any man in that professional field must be gay, Zohan routinely provides raucous sexual favors for all of his older female customers. The sight of bottles of gels and hairsprays falling off shelves while the indefatigable Zohan pleasures randy grannies on the other side of a salon wall is pure SNL, and is funnier than it might sound. The silly story involves an old, Palestinian enemy of Zohan, the Phantom (John Turturro), showing up in Manhattan, but everything is really leading to a Big Apple version of the resolution of Israeli-Palestinian conflicts we'd all like to see on a large scale. The film is almost instantly forgettable, and there are many times it veers toward the dumb, but it also sells itself well as a nutty concept. --Tom Keogh
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