You Don't Mess With The Zohan (DVD)

The story is Adam Sandler play a legendary Israeli secret agent, who decides he has had enough of killing terrorists and wants to cut hair instead, the movie then moves to New York where Zohan goes under cover to make his dream come true. Let's get things straight, this is not an intellectual movie, it will not win any Oscars or baftas and I doubt many professional reviewers liked it but in tough economic times we all need a laugh and for a Friday or Saturday night, it's brilliant fun. It reminds me of the Hot shots/Airplane/Naked Gun Movies, full of one pacey funny one liners, and outrageous action scenes. There are several moments that do make you want to cringe a little, especially when Zohan offers some extra services to some of his clientele and Adam Sandeler certainly does push the boundaries of taste, but generally a good laugh out loud movie.

Yet again, a masterpiece by Adam Sandler. One of the best comedy movies Ive watched in ages. Would reccoment to anyone!!

"YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN" LOL

this has got to be the funniest film ever to be made. i could watch this film day in day out. hilarious the whole way through!!! love it!!! :)

I love Adam Sandler as an actor. I don't think he's done a bad film. This particular gem had me creased at several points, from where he catches a fried fish in his naked bumcheeks to where he's "pleasuring" senior citizens who come into the salon he works at for a haircut.

Buy it...watch it.......there isn't a good reason not to. Enjoy.

Given the missed opportunities for sharpening silliness with satire, it's impossible not to mess with the Zohan. There's a risky idea in the script cooked up by star Adam Sandler and his co-writers, Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow: What if Sandler played a Mossad commando named Zohan who fakes his death and comes to New York to live his dream of making the world "silky smooth" by cutting and styling hair? And what if the only job he could get was working in a Brooklyn salon run by a Palestinian babe (Emmanuelle Chriqui)?
It's the Middle East crisis played for laughs, and it gets a few until the movie backs off its bolder notions. That's a shame, because Sandler, buff, blow-dried and Borat-accented, is clearly having a ball playing a Jewish superhero. Ditto John Turturro as Zohan's Arab counterpart, the Phantom. "You think you can oppress my people, land-grabber?" shrieks the Phantom, and suddenly the movie is a microcosm of Arab-Israeli relations taken out of context and wrapped in comic absurdity. What the Marx brothers could have made of that!

What Zohan makes of it is a sentimental hash that director Dennis Dugan tries to deflect with crude sight gags. Sandler (no hair homo, he) stuffs his crotch and starts shtupping the old ladies whose hair he shags. The joke is right out The Producers, screen and stage, and doesn't profit from punishing repetition. By the end of the film, the cliché of everybody getting along is reduced to both sides working together in the ultimate monument to capitalism: a mall.

Very funny in lots of places. Adam Sandler is at his best here as an Israeli assasin who wants to change & be a hair-stylist in New York.
Will watch it again, no doubt.