Although I’ve enjoyed Adam Sandler’s movies, they never made me genuinely excited. Not until I read about his latest movie “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan” – just the title alone is funny enough. And it’s also the first time that I think anyone has ever used a movie to satirise the subject of the animosity between Israel and the Arab world.
From the excellent write-up in the New York Times about how the movie came to be:
About eight years ago Mr. Sandler conceived of the Zohan character, an Israeli assassin who has been trained to hate and kill Arabs; exhausted by the ceaseless bloodshed, he fakes his own death and flees to New York to become a hairdresser. There he finds Jews and Arabs living together in grudging if not quite harmonious tolerance.
Film – Adam Sandler Tackles Israeli-Arab Tensions in ‘You Don’t Mess With the Zohan’ – NYTimes.com
Intrigued, I searched for the trailer and bloody hell it’s funny and it’s got a message to boot. Some people on both sides of the argument will probably get offended by this but I don’t think it’s more offensive than the realities on the ground. I think that it’s good that this will make people laugh and also stop and think a little.
Hehe looks pretty funny. Like the way he shut up the tolder. 😛
And I think the first time I saw a woman being aroused by a haircut was in Edward Scissorhands.
Hehe yeah that Chinese pressure point / Vulcan Grip / Jedi Mind Trick thing gets played for laughs in so many movies and it’s still funny!
hahaah it does look good, but a tad too-borat-wannabe for my liking! Nothing ever beats the original!!
Adam Sandler is classic in his own way, though he tends to do his best work when he stays casual, not trying too hard to be funny or deep, etc.
patrick: actually, “Punch Drunk Love” is one of his better movies. And it’s quite deep. 🙂