You Don't Mess with the Zohan

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Columbia Pictures (Sony) ( minutes)
and Dennis Dugan
Adam Sandler , John Turturro , Emmanuelle Chriqui , Nick Swardson , and Rob Schneider

Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language and nudity

Summary: Zohan is an Israeli commando who fakes his own death in order to pursue his dream: becoming a hairstylist in New York. (Sony Pictures)

Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor:
(83) As hig concepts go, You Don't Mess With the Zohan" takes the cake.

David Edelstein
New York Magazine:
(80) Director Dennis Dugan knows his way around shin-whacking slapstick, and Sandler is mesmerizing.

Richard Schickel
Time:
(80) The result is a laff riot. Well, all right, a laff scuffle -- a picture that isn't quite as funny as it might be, but is as funny as it needs to be.

Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com:
(80) The movie "Munich" should have been. At the very least, it's got to be the first picture to use smelly-feet jokes as a means of parsing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But more than that, it's a mainstream movie that dares to make jokes about the kinds of complex political realities that most of us don't dare bring up at dinner parties.

Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal:
(80) On screen it looks crazed, but the comic energy is huge, if indiscriminate, and Mr. Sandler's performance -- think Topol doing Charles Boyer -- can be as delicate as it is gleefully vulgar or grotesque.

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times:
(75) Sandler works so hard at this, and so shamelessly, that he battered down my resistance. Like a Jerry Lewis out of control, he will do, and does, anything to get a laugh. No thinking adult should get within a mile of this film. I must not have been thinking. For my sins, I laughed.

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