You Don't Mess with the Zohan Review by Zara (4 Stars)

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Starring:
Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Mariah Carey, Henry Winkler, John Farley, Barry Livingston, Jacki R. Chan, Mousa Kraish, Shelley Berman, Todd Holland, Marly Coronel, Terrie Snell, Matthew Wolf, Mark Kubr, Jennifer De Minco, Danny A. Abeckaser, Kal Parekh, Blake Young-Fountain, Eric Feliciano, Les Gardonyi, Alex Luria, Barbara Ann Davison, Yossi Marshek, Aesop Aquarian, Dina Doron, Omid Abtahi, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Todd Justin, Constance Barron, Moran Atias, Sayed Badreya, Ido Ezra, Dana Goodman, Julia Lea Wolov, Uzimann, Nikki Giavasis, Donna Feldman, Nikki Giavasis, Natasha Nov, Lina So, Anne Marie Howard, Sarah Stringer, Ashley Ausburn, Norma Michaels, Ryan Phillip Thomas, Vanessa Long, Melanie Bulujian, Ian Fisher, Herzl Tobey, Kristina Haddad, Nicole Montano, Christa Texeira, Mike Batayeh, Tina Mayer, Michelle Elyse, Sophie Texeira, Helen Siff, Ben Wise, Rick Gifford, Chris Spinelli, John Duerler, Riley Stewart, Susan Grace, Seth Texeira, Tim Mars, Jonah Texeira, Alexis McCombs, Yamit Sol, Ori Pfeffer, Shulie Cowen, Ido Mosseri, Necar Zadegan, Guri Weinberg, Keana Texeira, Adria Tennor, Maysoon Zayid, Daoud Heidami, Tim Bearden

Directed By:
Dennis Dugan

Written By:
Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel

You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)

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Movie Review by Zara

January 30th, 2008

Haha... I love screeners!

I was actually really looking forward to this movie coming out after seeing a preview for it and knowing that Apatow was involved in the screenwriting. So I was pleased to get an opportunity to watch a special screener of the film tonight.

Just for those who don't know, screeners don't always have the perfect color, sound or special effects. Screeners are also commonly used because the film company is afraid that the film is going to bomb and they want to get a chance to try to repair it before its later release.

Upside for this film is that it's pretty much a very solid comedy that doesn't need much tweaking. Much like the earlier Sandler films of lore where he was a goofy f*cker who managed to get himself into implausible situations and work his way out of them (think HAPPY GILMORE), he is an impossibly strong Israeli operative who just wants to get out of the war business and become a hairdresser.

What I liked the most is that while they could have gone the very homosexual stereotypical route, they don't. Instead, Zohan is portrayed as being the stud that he is, just no longer a buff agent and now a hairdresser.

What's not listed here is that Emmanuelle Chriqui is in the cast and I can't deny the power of that woman's beauty. The romance between her hair salon owner character's and Zohan is muted and seems a distraction at best, but I really like that she's in the movie.

The audience was pretty much going nuts for the majority of the film (the action sequences are insanely funny and interestingly choreographed) and I can't deny that I wasn't one of them. While the film peters out after the declaration of the (mostly) unnecessary romance, it gets funnier to watch Mariah Carey take a poke at her image later in the film and ends with a chipper finale that should leave most people properly satisfied.

All in all, this should be a very big (and well deserved) summer hit for Sandler. And it's been long coming to see him go back to his old "Why don't you go to your home? Are you too good for your home??" days.

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	Tim Jan 30, 2008 8:52 AM
How big of a part does Mariah Carey have in this?

	Lisa Jan 30, 2008 4:36 PM
Yeah I was thinking the same thing....I hate that bird.

	Tim Jan 30, 2008 4:56 PM
I mean I like looking at her but dont care to see her act........She was OK in Wisegirls but everything else she has done has been horrible.

	Zara Jan 30, 2008 6:59 PM
She appears as Mariah Carey and not as a character, so it's a plus to watch the Israelis and Palestinians (who in reality are both in love with the woman, as it appears the only thing they can agree on, oddly enough) at a hacky sack match fall all over her as she sings the National Anthem. Or, in simpler terms, she's in it for about 5-6 minutes at best.

	Tim Jan 30, 2008 9:25 PM
ahhh ok I didnt realize she was in the film as Mariah Carey......its cool you got to see this already.....how did you manage?

	Zara Jan 31, 2008 6:14 PM
Basically... you don't mess with the Zara. Ha.

	Holly Jun 7, 2008 12:46 PM
There was NO Judd Apatow in this...it was all Sandler and Smigel...that's why it was GOOD! He was obviously written out of the rewrites. No thievery or chance of a lawsuit in this film. And you know Apatow had nothing to do with the casting...the female lead wasn't an annoying, ugly, shallow blonde.

	Zara Jun 7, 2008 1:38 PM
Jeez, tell me how you really feel.

	Holly Jun 7, 2008 2:14 PM
Jeez would be better reserved for Judd Apatow and the horrible things he's done in Hollywood and the people he's stepped on! I do regret using the term "ugly" though, because that's sexist and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. However, he does tend to caste shallow, uninteresting blonde women in his leads and in his wife's case, annoying.

	Holly Jun 7, 2008 2:21 PM
"Jeez, tell me how you really feel." As original and says as much as a Judd Apatow flick. So keep in mind: a full beard and relentless self-promotion does not a director make.

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