Hebrew Hammer (2003)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:12
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.1/10
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... [More]
Starring: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick, Sean Whalen
Director: Jonathan Kesselman
Reviews for Hebrew Hammer
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Corny and crude at times, but effective in its single-minded pursuit of laughs. Full Review |
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[E]nds up veering from ridiculous but pointed commentary into abusing and insulting those [the film] intends to champion... Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Everybody needs a little burlesque fun with his digital reprogramming, and the politically incorrect good times barely let up in this story. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
A scattershot assortment of jokes that is funniest when it sticks to its neat premise. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Kesselman keeps the movie crackling with the raucous energy absent since Mel Brooks' heyday. Full Review |
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Desperation is the project's principal quality. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
The movie starts out hilarious but like The Hammer's Jewish mother, it starts to nag at you after awhile. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
The movie hits as much as it misses, with enough witty observations to ensure that somewhere, Kesselman's mother is kvelling. Full Review |
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Kesselman's thin script generally is funniest when it's riffing on Jewish stereotypes and goyish bigotry. Full Review |
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B- |
An insubstantial but highly entertaining flick. Full Review |
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A crass, sophomoric and, more to the point, offensively unfunny parody. Full Review |
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C+ |
Doesn't quite nail it, but it's not as bad as it sounds, either. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Uneven, profane and occasionally flat-out hilarious. Full Review |
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2/4 |
A hit-and-miss affair. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
plays like a lower (much, much lower) budgeted, Jewish version of Malcolm Lee’s funnier Undercover Brother Full Review |
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1/5 |
Would have worked brilliantly as a five-minute late-night comedy sketch. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Unfunny rather than outrageous as intended. Full Review |
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