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List Price: $19.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 20611
Released: October 7, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Comedy superstar Adam Sandler is back - and funnier than ever - as The Zohan, the finest counter terrorist agent the Israeli army has. That is, until he fakes his death and travels to Manhattan to live his dream...as a hairdresser. Now this skilled fighting machine who used to clip bad guys is out to prove he can make the cut as a top stylist. All goes silky smooth until his cover is blown when he's recognized by a Palestinian cab driver (Rob Schneider). Now, The Zohan must fight to live a peaceful new life in New York in this razor-sharp action-packed comedy from Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel, Judd Apatow and Dennis Dugan.
Description of You Don't Mess With the Zohan (Rated Single-Disc Edition):
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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You Don't Mess With the Zohan (Rated Single-Disc Edition) Reviews:
Funny Movie with with a hope for middle east peace 
2009-12-02 - Wonderful movie filled with sight gags, special effects and creative dialogue. It helps if you are from New York...more if you are Jewish and even more if you are up to date with the Israel-Arab relationship. Sandler is wonderful as an Israeli Super Soldier who tires of the endless fighting and gives it all up to move to NYC and be a hairdresser. The end of the movie sports the theme that maybe there is hope for peace and for Arabs and Israeli's to work together. Amen.
Truly, a waste of time. 
2009-11-30 - This movie isn't worth watching on your worst night of TV. It's just not funny, not that Sandler, who's other films (Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Little Nicky, Click), I found hilarious. I love stupid comedy films (Blades of Glory and Semi-Pro had some great stuff in them) but this was just so bland.
It's hard to describe why this film is so bad. Lots of him doing physically incredible things as the Israeli Super Soldier, putting a fish down his swim trunks, catching one in his butt, tying guys into pretzels, just doesn't work. I think it comes down to the filmmakers doing "funny stuff" instead of coming from a character base. Most of these goofy comedies are about an extremely incompetent guy, believing he's capable in a competent world. Here you have an incredibly competent character who never fails at whatever he does, hence there's not even a question of whether he'll succeed in his mission or get the girl at the end. And there was absolutely no connection between him and the romantic interest.
I can't remember the last time I watched a movie that didn't have at least some redeeming qualities, but I felt after watching this that I really did waste my time and I hope I can save you the same loss.
**SPOILER ALERT***
one of the things they passed right over is that in order for Zohan to pursue his dream as a hairdresser, he fakes his own death. But the filmmakers completely ignore what effect this has on his parents, who even in a comedy, would suffer greatly. In othere words, he's an insensitive clod, who put his family through hell, only to have them come happily together at the end, the whole matter forgotten.
Really funny 
2009-11-02 - Okay so let me get this out of the way before I even go into a decription or review, I'm not the biggest Adam Sandler fan, I've seen plenty of his movies and I really hate when he plays the same moronic character all the time, there are exceptions to this and I have to say Don't Mess With The Zohan (just Zohan for short) is definately one of the better ones in my opinion. This movie is so over the top, it doesn't even try to be serious and thats not a bad thing. I found myself laughing many times through out this movie, and every time I thought I had seen it all something wackier would happen in the next scene.
Adam Sandler plays an Israeli Special Forces soldier Zohan Dvir, who is really good at what he does, but is tired of fighting and wants to come to America to become a hairdresser, when he tells his parents of this they laugh at him. So Zohan decides to fake his own death on his next assignment where he is to hunt down his Palestinian nemesis (The Phantom) played by John Turturro. After his faked death Zohan stowes away in the luggage compartment of a plane where he gives himself a haircut, as well as the two pooches he's sharing a cage with Scrappy and Coco, this is where he gets his American name from (Scrappy Coco). Once in America Zohan tries to get a job at the Paul Mitchell Salon but is laughed at, eventually he ends up working in a small time shop run by a Palestinina woman named Dalia played by Emmanuelle Chriqui. With his unusual style and ways with the older women Zohan turns this little shop into the talk of the town. Zohan has to deal with an angry business man (played by Michael Buffer), an ex-enemy who recognizes him (Rob Schneider), white supremacists the leader played by James O'Skanlon, and the return of the Phantom who had become a local hero in his country after he thought he killed Zohan. The madness goes on and on.
This movie is so over the top, and Adam Sandler is great as Zohan in this movie who is practically super human it's ridiculous but in a good way. I saw the movie over Netflixes streaming service, and would urge anyone who has this service and has not seen this movie to check it out, I give this movie a 4 out of 5 which considering comedies are not my favorite type of movies shows how much I did enjoy it. One final note this movie may not be suitable for children so use caution.
One comedy you won't forget
2009-10-04 - It takes alot to make me laugh,and "You don't mess with the Zohan" had me on the floor.Its not a perfect comedy,but its different.Zohan is a supperhero with unbelievable strenght,but wants to cut hair in the USA.
This movie really has its moments
Tried to hard to be funny... 
2009-09-28 - Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1ZTLQKOMDO90C
