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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... 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 very secular Jaecki Zucker (born Jakob Zuckermann), part of a conflicted family divided in 1961 by the Berlin wall. When Jaecki's mother dies, the family is forced back together--and neither he nor his estranged Orthodox brother can receive their inheritance unless they put aside their differences. [More]
Starring: Henry Hubchen
Starring: Henry Hubchen
Director: Dani Levy
Director: Dani Levy
Studio: First Run Features
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Reviews for Go For Zucker
A brash, energetic, cheerfully slovenly comedy with broadly drawn characters and big performances…
Go for Zucker is far from a perfect film but it brings easy laughter and joy.
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.
...a low key charmer which hews closely to classic comedy situations while attempting to change a national zeitgeist.
Watching through American eyes, none of it seems all that funny, or interesting, or entertaining.
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.
Zany Zucker proves that 'German comedy' is no oxymoron, and that the country can at last find humor in its cultural and religious divide.
A character-driven entertainment that stays just the right side of purely physical farce.
Germans may indeed have overcome their grandparent's anti-Semitism. But their famously lousy sense of humor is still in full effect.
Go For Zucker's humor is rooted in Jewish comic traditions, but does its broad, equal-opportunity kvetching disguise honest-to-God contempt?
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.
Goebbels would have found the depiction of Jews in Go For Zucker promising.
Go for Zucker is mildly tasteless (natürlich), if not exactly uproarious.
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