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12/20/05
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Go For Zucker (2004)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:21
Rotten:18
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: While a German comedy is a bit of a novelty for American audiences, the lowbrow humor on display in Go For Zucker is only mildly amusing.
Theatrical Release:Jan 20, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: This genuinely hilarious comedy was an enormous hit in its native Germany, where it was widely hailed as the sign of a renaissance in German-Jewish humor. The excellent Henry Hübchen stars as the... [More]
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02/11/06
In director and co-writer Dani Levy's capable hands, Go for Zucker is less a comedy of religious manners than of Cold War nostalgia on par with 2003's Good Bye, Lenin!
12/15/05
A mildly amusing My big fat Jewish funeral that does not overcome its TV sitcom origins.
01/19/06
Because it's from Germany and we're not onto the tricks of the lead actors, the way this familiar tale plays out is a lot of fun.
07/13/06
Zany Zucker proves that 'German comedy' is no oxymoron, and that the country can at last find humor in its cultural and religious divide.
07/13/06
Watching through American eyes, none of it seems all that funny, or interesting, or entertaining.
09/20/06
The movie is raw-looking, and Levy throws the camera around as if it were a Teddy bear, but he controls the actors with calm professional skill --all the characters, beautifully developed in short scenes, are touching and slightly absurd at the same time.
01/17/06
Top CriticA character-driven entertainment that stays just the right side of purely physical farce.
04/06/06
Go For Zucker's humor is rooted in Jewish comic traditions, but does its broad, equal-opportunity kvetching disguise honest-to-God contempt?
01/07/06
The cast is funny and the script is sharply written.
03/01/07
A movie of fits and starts, sharpness and stumbles. And it comes up short in the end.
01/07/06
Go for Zucker is mildly tasteless (natürlich), if not exactly uproarious.
01/17/06
Top CriticGerman-made comedy is a rare enough export, but German-made Jewish comedy hasnt been seen abroad -- or in the Fatherland -- since the days of Adolf Hitler.
02/09/06
Go for Zucker has done well in its native country as the first postwar German-Jewish comedy, but its humor often seems so childish and meanspirited that you wonder what director and co-writer Dani Levy really had in mind.
01/20/06
Top CriticA broad, lowbrow affair, worthy of an American Ben Stiller comedy.
03/03/06
A diverting, mildly entertaining movie, far short of provoking the controversy (or hysterical laughter) it apparently prompted during its release in Germany.
04/06/06
Goebbels would have found the depiction of Jews in Go For Zucker promising.
08/18/09
too weighted with overdressing and fat to travel all that well.
03/27/06
Germans may indeed have overcome their grandparent's anti-Semitism. But their famously lousy sense of humor is still in full effect.
01/20/06
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