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.
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02/08/06
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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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Reviews for Go For Zucker
Top CriticThere are no belly laughs here, just some mild chuckles.
01/20/06
Go 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
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 CriticGo for Zucker is far from a perfect film but it brings easy laughter and joy.
01/20/06
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
... the rare German movie calling itself a comedy that is actually funny, even if only in bits and pieces.
01/19/06
Top CriticA mildly amusing My big fat Jewish funeral that does not overcome its TV sitcom origins.
01/19/06
Go 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 CriticBittersweet exploration of German-Jewish identity
01/10/06
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
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12/20/05
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
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
Go 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
"Go for Zucker!" takes pleasure in its irreverence.
12/01/05
...a low key charmer which hews closely to classic comedy situations while attempting to change a national zeitgeist.
11/27/05
Ostensibly a comedy, Go For Zucker makes a heavy-handed hash of its overly contrived plot, which plays like a lame sitcom.
11/11/05
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