: You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
Warning: this is a very funny movie, but it’s also extremely crude with a lot of sexual material. It is not a family movie and the trailers don’t hint at that and I feel a lot of parents will be unpleasantly surprised, especially compared to Adam Sandler’s tamer films. There’s just a lot of raunchiness here that’s unnecessary and distracting, which is disappointing, as the core story is hilarious — the premise is a top Israeli secret agent who fakes his own death so he can move to New York and become a hairdresser — and makes an appropriate mockery of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The casting is great, the sight gags are outrageous to the point of utter absurdity, and the whole thing would be a terrific goof except for the adult nature and crude humor scattered randomly through the thing. Not as bad as Borat, but similarly flawed. Disappointing, but only because it could have been terrific; in the end I still liked it more than I hated it.
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