Zany Zucker proves that 'German comedy' is no oxymoron, and that the country can at last find humor in its cultural and religious divide.
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Go For Zucker (2004)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:6
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.9/10
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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Top CriticA character-driven entertainment that stays just the right side of purely physical farce.
04/06/06
Top CriticA diverting, mildly entertaining movie, far short of provoking the controversy (or hysterical laughter) it apparently prompted during its release in Germany.
04/06/06
Top CriticGo for Zucker! has one comic trope our capitalist society can definitely understand: the restorative power of a cash bonanza.
03/25/06
Top CriticAlthough Go for Zucker begins with the title character running, the movie just isn't up to speed.
03/03/06
Top CriticThe 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 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
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 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 is mildly tasteless (natürlich), if not exactly uproarious.
01/17/06
Top CriticThe 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 CriticThe 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
Top CriticIn 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
Top CriticGo for Zucker! cleaned up at this year's German film awards. But why should an American moviegoer see it? If you're looking for a reason, here's one: It might be the first funny German movie you've ever seen.
12/08/05
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