The whole style of humor seems dated.
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06/05/08
You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008)
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Reviews Counted:177
Fresh:64
Rotten:113
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: You Don't Mess With the Zohan features intermittent laughs, and will please Sandler diehards, but after awhile the leaky premise wears thin.
Theatrical Release:15-08-2008
Synopsis: Dennis Dugan (BIG DADDY, HAPPY GILMORE) directs this comedy co-written by Adam Sandler, Judd Apatow, and Robert Smigel. Disco- and hummus-loving Zohan (Sandler) is the Israeli army's best weapon.... [More]
Starring: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson
Director: Dennis Dugan
Reviews for You Don't Mess With The Zohan
It's as if Sandler took a trip to Israel and came back with 6,000 jokes about hummus (the 6,000 penis jokes he didn't have to go anywhere to find).
06/05/08
This is mostly tame stuff.
06/05/08
Finally, a funny Sandler movie. It's his franchise. He's sexy too! But why all the Mel Gibson slams?
06/04/08
A genial, hit-and-miss return to the ridiculous for Adam Sandler.
06/04/08
Top CriticZohan is a mess and then some.
06/04/08
Top CriticForget Monty Python, You Don't Mess With the Zohan is a circus that never really flies.
06/04/08
Lots of lewd Sandler stuff, but also some laughs.
06/04/08
In Zohan, Sandler, his co-writers and director Dennis Dugan keep tossing away jokes and throwing away significance.
06/04/08
For all its perceived shock value, all the concern that a comedy about conflict in the Middle East would offend just about everyone imaginable, You Don't Mess With the Zohan is really rather conventional and familiar.
06/04/08
When I watched "Zohan," I felt like I was watching two different films...both of them not very good.
06/04/08
I like Sandler's trademark combination of shock tactics and sweetness. There's a crazed good-heartedness to Zohan.
06/04/08
But really -- 113 minutes? Some judicious trimming might have made the jokes' hit-to-miss ratio way more tolerable.
06/03/08
Zohan is, against all odds, Sandler's funniest effort in close to a decade. Not exactly a monumental feat given the junk he's recently made a mint foisting on the American public, but still.
06/03/08
Another in the string of exercises in coarse infantilism that represent the studios' idea of farce nowadays.
06/03/08
You don't have to be a Sandler fan: if vulgarity mixed with a little sentiment is your thing, you've come to the right place.
06/02/08
If sight gags, genital jokes, and crazy caricatures are your thing, You Don't Mess with the Zohan pulls it off better than any movie since Austin Powers.
06/01/08
Since the comedy is co-written by three scribes, my guess would be that the bathroom humor and childish goofiness are product of Sandler and company, whereas the more sexual and raunchy elements reflect the sensibility of Judd Apatow and his factory.
05/30/08
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