You Don't Mess With the Zohan (Unrated Extended Single-Disc Edition) |  | Director: Dennis Dugan
Actors: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson, Lainie Kazan
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: COLD27746D
UPC: 043396277465
EAN: 0043396277465
ASIN: B001DPHDB0
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: October 7, 2008
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If You Don't Mess with the Zohan feels like an extended and crazed sketch from Saturday Night Live, there are reasons for that. Zohan's star and SNL alumnus Adam Sandler is joined by several fellow cast members (in uncredited cameo roles) from his years on the NBC show. But Sandler also co-wrote the film's absurdist script with SNL veteran writer and sometime-performer Robert Smigel. Echoes of a few of their classic skits on the show--built around high-strung Israeli characters obsessed with disco and selling junk electronics out of a New York shop--are in revisited in Zohan and are a lot of fun to see again. Zohan is unbridled nonsense thrown at the wall, but with a sunny disposition that proves surprisingly persuasive. Sandler stars as an Israeli intelligence operative who fakes his death to reinvent himself in New York City as a hairdresser. Putting the lie to assumptions that any man in that professional field must be gay, Zohan routinely provides raucous sexual favors for all of his older female customers. The sight of bottles of gels and hairsprays falling off shelves while the indefatigable Zohan pleasures randy grannies on the other side of a salon wall is pure SNL, and is funnier than it might sound. The silly story involves an old, Palestinian enemy of Zohan, the Phantom (John Turturro), showing up in Manhattan, but everything is really leading to a Big Apple version of the resolution of Israeli-Palestinian conflicts we'd all like to see on a large scale. The film is almost instantly forgettable, and there are many times it veers toward the dumb, but it also sells itself well as a nutty concept. --Tom Keogh
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 Back to the Future June 25, 2008
Ron (Jersey)
26 out of 30 found this review helpful
Sandler goes back to his juvenile roots with this one. That is not a bad thing in my book, I find Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore a riot. In this movie, Sandler plays Zohan. Zohan is a tough as nails Israeli intelligence operative who fakes his death because he is sick of all the violence in the Middle East. He goes to America to become a hair dresser because he wants everyone to have silky smooth hair. Not every joke works, but the silly situations come fast and furious. If one doesn't get you, then maybe the next one will. Yes it is pretty stupid and juvenile stuff, but I found most of the movie amusing. If you like his first movies, then this one is for you.
If only the world could be united with laughter June 7, 2008
R. Kyle (USA)
22 out of 28 found this review helpful
Well, clearly, not everyone has the same sense of humor. You've got to walk Disbelief right out the door with "You don't mess with Zohan," but if you just need a fun summer flick and you have a very bent sense of humor, this could be it.
Story in a nutshell: Zohan (Sandler) is tired of the Israeli Army. He busts it to capture a terrorist, the Phantom (John Turturro) and the government merely trades the Phantom back. So--when his next opportunity to go up against his arch nemesis comes up, Zohan stages his own death and comes to America to become a hairdresser. He ends up falling for a Palestinian girl, Dalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui) and realizing there are worse things than his original enemies.
The humor's just as juvenile as you would expect, but if you need a good, hard laugh--and you don't mind gross, this is it. Be warned, you will never look the same way at hummus again!
Rebecca Kyle, June 2008
Sex Rules June 16, 2009
Michael Kerjman (The Earth)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A welcomed work depicting very similar notions significantly-differently from Munich (Full Screen Edition) continues a tradition of explicitly stupid, laughing-exagerrated, so-called-Jewish-style comedies The Hebrew Hammer is the most similar to.
An Israeli intelligence operative "re-born" in New York meets all his woes to befriend them in a new life.
Funny sexist satire on "road map" and etc as natural urges for lovemaking and fighting the common obstacles unite antipodes on American soil, making some of them even brothers-in-law.
Perhaps, new family affairs will constitute a next sequence of Zohan's saga.
Making the world safe for the Silky Smooth May 23, 2009
Tim Brough (Springfield, PA United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having just reviewed the dynamite Spy-Flick Taken with Liam Neeson, it is time to lurch a full 360 to another Spy, Adam Sandler's Zohan. "You Don't Mess With The Zohan" is a goofy, juvenile and often really funny film that sends Israeli super soldier Sandler to New York City where he can live out his days as Super Stylist Scrappy Coco. But his arch nemesis The Phantom (a way over the top John Turturro) has discovered the Zohan's secret and is out for revenge. Will The Phantom bring the Bang-Boom that stops Zohan's quest for the perfect feathering?
Also on board is Rob Schneider, as an Arab cab driver mourning his stolen pet goat, Mariah Carey lampooning her own image, John McEnroe, George "Sulu" Takei and Bruce Vilanch as themselves and a subplot about everyone just getting along. If it were only this easy to save the world; No need for "We Are The World" stuff, just sex-jokes and SNL skits. Much better than his prior I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, "Zohan" is Sandler's return to broad farce.
Not usually my style, but I was pleasantly surprised! May 18, 2009
Alan Starr (Lawrence, MA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Surprisingly hilarious movie from Adam Sandler, who I don't usually find very funny. (Oddly enough, I like his serious roles in 'Spanglish','Punch-Drunk Love' and 'Reign Over Me' more than any of his previous comedies!) Comedies are hard to predict or review - I can't tell you why I like this movie so much more than all his others, I can just tell you that I do. Maybe it's just so over the top and so shameless that you have to either love it or hate it. In this case, I loved it. (As always, the ending starts to flag as the writers feel the need to wrap up the plotlines, which just get in the way of the jokes. But still very good.)
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