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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
A mildly amusing My big fat Jewish funeral that does not overcome its TV sitcom origins.
01/19/06
Watching through American eyes, none of it seems all that funny, or interesting, or entertaining.
09/20/06
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
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 CriticGo 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
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
The jokes aren't always funny, but that they come at all out of contemporary Germany gives this obstreperous social comedy -- a huge hit back home -- a modern punch.
02/08/06
Top CriticThere are no belly laughs here, just some mild chuckles.
01/20/06
Abysmal. Go away, Zucker!
10/06/05
Levy exploits the living situation for countless oil-and-water gags, many of which are so corny and played-out that they feel as though they should be accompanied by the cheers of a live studio audience.
02/23/06
Although Go for Zucker begins with the title character running, the movie just isn't up to speed.
03/03/06
Top Critic... the rare German movie calling itself a comedy that is actually funny, even if only in bits and pieces.
01/19/06
Top CriticGo for Zucker was a smash back home, where it was hailed as the first German comedy about Jews since World War II. But it will take more than that to make American audiences laugh.
01/20/06
The exuberant physical comedy in Go for Zucker and the movie's entertaining sense of impropriety fail to produce a plausibly affecting finale.
12/16/05
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