You Don't Mess With the Zohan

Film Review by Kevin McHugh | 08 Aug 2008
Film title: You Don't Mess With the Zohan
Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui
Release date: 15 Aug
Certificate: 12A

'Hairdresser assassin' sounds like it could be the perfect cut. Zohan (Sandler) is Israel’s finest undercover agent, who men want to be and woman want to, you know, bed. But his dream is moving to New York and becoming a famous stylist, so he fakes his own death and flees to the Big Apple. There he ends up working for Palestinian shop owner Dalia, until The Phantom (a brilliant Turturro) arrives to kill Zohan once and for all. Star and director team up for their fifth outing together and it's all too familiar territory. Sandler, who co-wrote this project, seems to think that if a gag is funny once he can stretch it out 20 times throughout the movie although, admirably, his attempt at tackling the issue of the Israel-Palestine conflict is biased against neither side; instead he ridicules both head on. More of a blue rinse than a perfect cut, wait for the DVD. [Kevin McHugh]

 

 

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