How does the Tomatometer work 
Reviews Counted:177
Fresh:64
Rotten:113
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: You Don't Mess With the Zohan features intermittent laughs, and will please Sandler diehards, but after awhile the leaky premise wears thin.
Theatrical Release:Jun 6, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $100,018,837
Synopsis: Dennis Dugan (BIG DADDY, HAPPY GILMORE) directs this comedy co-written by Adam Sandler, Judd Apatow, and Robert Smigel. Disco- and hummus-loving Zohan (Sandler) is the Israeli army's best weapon.... [More]
Starring: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson
Director: Dennis Dugan
Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.
But it's Sandler who is pivotal to its amiable success. Less precious, less power-tripping than the likes of Ben Stiller, Jim Carrey or Mike Myers, he never looks down on his material. He makes us laugh by willpower as much as technique.
This is a silly, crass comedy about a badass Israeli commando who secretly longs to be a hairdresser specialising in 1980s stylings.
You Don’t Mess With the Zohan is a rude and routine Adam Sandler farce with some exceedingly sharp lines.
There's a broad theory that no matter how funny the comedy, 90 minutes is the point at which audiences have had enough. You Don't Mess With The Zohan trundles on for 113 minutes, none of them funny.
Another sloppily concocted and naggingly non-controversial pretext for Sandler to pelvic thrust his way though a succession of increasingly wacky fish-out-of-water situations.
A strange, mostly enjoyable mix of big political questions and crude comedy, Zohan overcomes its skeletal plotting and uneven gag ratio through Sandler's sheer commitment to nonsense.
O pior filme da carreira de Adam Sandler... e se considerarmos que estamos falando do gênio por trás de O Paizão e Little Nicky, esta constatação se torna mais do que deprimente; torna-se apavorante.
Amusing Adam Sandler comedy with a bonkers premise, a surprisingly likeable central character and a handful of decent gags.
Just when you think civilisation may be moving forward a bit (OK, I'm an optimist), another Adam Sandler movie comes along.
You should have known: You Don’t Expect Much from the Zohan.
A comedy built around the belief that people speaking in foreign accents is endlessly funny, You Don't Mess With The Zohan is - how you say? - not good.
This should have a big label that reads '20% above average humor, 80% below the belt crass.'
Zohan is both exponentially stranger than Larry and about twice as amusing.
You Don't Mess with the Zohan has bumped 'Click' from the top of Sandler's list as his worst movie ever.
Occasionally the film is so bad it's almost funny, if you think a scene in which a cat is used as a football is funny.
Why does Adam Sandler continue to make these comedies that aren't funny? Because your neighbor's 13-year old kid keeps going to see them.
Sandler's best in a long time
As stupid as ever, but surprisingly clever.
There are a handful of legitimately funny jokes, even though -- though it frightens me to say so -- I don't get as excited as I got when I was fifteen.
The script has a couple of actually funny gags, but hack director Dennis Dugan messes up the delivery in service to Sandler's titanic ego.
October 05, 2008:
This counter-terrorism satire is its own worst enemy. Especially whenever Sandler's whining geek turned combo swaggering assassin hair stylist's too-much-information bulging prosthetic crotch pops up. 
More...
August 19, 2008:
Arab Censors Mess With The Zohan
In a move that will leave some American filmgoers seething with jealousy, censors in Egypt, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates have banned Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess With... More...
August 16, 2008:
NewFilmReview: This counter-terrorism satire is its own worst enemy. Especially whenever Sandler's whining geek turned combo swaggering assassin hair stylist's too-much-information bulging prosthetic crotch pops up.
More...
July 13, 2008:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Moody Superheroes Rule the Box Office
Hellboy II: The Golden Army nudges Hancock out of first place while Murphy debuts as the summer's biggest flop. More...
Take a look at MSN's choices for the Top 10 films of 2009.
What were your favorites? Least favorites? The funniest and scariest? Moviefone wants to know!
Hollywood.com explores why QT's characters resonate so well with audiences.
TIME chimes in with their own list of the best films released this year.
Click through to see which movies BuzzSugar placed in their Best-of-Decade list!
Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!
RSS Feeds
Comment
