Corny and crude at times, but effective in its single-minded pursuit of laughs.
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02/09/05
Hebrew Hammer (2003)
52 %
Reviews Counted: 23 Fresh: 12 Rotten:11 Average Rating: 5.1/10
Runtime: 86 mins
Synopsis: THE HEBREW HAMMER is a holiday movie that is most definitely not for kids. Adam Goldberg stars as Mordechai Jefferson Carver, also known as the Hebrew Hammer, a private detective who has an overbearing mother (Nora Dunn) and a propensity to whine when things get difficult. He is hired by... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick, Sean Whalen, Mario Van Peebles
Director: Jonathan Kesselman
Screenwriter: Jonathan Kesselman
Producer: Sofia Sondervan, Josh Kesselman, Lisa Fragner
Composer: Michael Cohen
Screenwriter: Jonathan Kesselman
Producer: Sofia Sondervan, Josh Kesselman, Lisa Fragner
Composer: Michael Cohen
Reviews
[E]nds up veering from ridiculous but pointed commentary into abusing and insulting those [the film] intends to champion...
12/21/04
Profane, shockingly un-PC and often laugh-out-loud hilarious, this is the sort of parody that the folks who made the Airplane and Naked Gun movies used to make -- funny.
04/29/04
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04/17/04
Everybody needs a little burlesque fun with his digital reprogramming, and the politically incorrect good times barely let up in this story.
04/09/04
A scattershot assortment of jokes that is funniest when it sticks to its neat premise.
04/08/04
Kesselman keeps the movie crackling with the raucous energy absent since Mel Brooks' heyday.
04/08/04
The movie starts out hilarious but like The Hammer's Jewish mother, it starts to nag at you after awhile.
01/09/04
The movie hits as much as it misses, with enough witty observations to ensure that somewhere, Kesselman's mother is kvelling.
01/02/04
Kesselman's thin script generally is funniest when it's riffing on Jewish stereotypes and goyish bigotry.
12/23/03
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A crass, sophomoric and, more to the point, offensively unfunny parody.
12/19/03
Top Critic
plays like a lower (much, much lower) budgeted, Jewish version of Malcolm Lee’s funnier Undercover Brother
12/19/03
Would have worked brilliantly as a five-minute late-night comedy sketch.
12/18/03
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You may not always laugh at it. But you can't help indulging its junior-high jitters.
12/18/03
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