Hebrew Hammer (2003)
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick, Sean Whalen, Mario Van Peebles
Screenwriter: Jonathan Kesselman
Producer: Sofia Sondervan, Josh Kesselman, Lisa Fragner
Composer: Michael Cohen
DVD Info
Release:
Nov 16, 2004
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Full Frame - 1.33
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - 1. Cast
- Deleted Scenes
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Reviews
Corny and crude at times, but effective in its single-minded pursuit of laughs.
[E]nds up veering from ridiculous but pointed commentary into abusing and insulting those [the film] intends to champion...
Profane, shockingly un-PC and often laugh-out-loud hilarious, this is the sort of parody that the folks who made the Airplane and Naked Gun movies used to make -- funny.
Everybody needs a little burlesque fun with his digital reprogramming, and the politically incorrect good times barely let up in this story.
A scattershot assortment of jokes that is funniest when it sticks to its neat premise.
Kesselman keeps the movie crackling with the raucous energy absent since Mel Brooks' heyday.
The movie starts out hilarious but like The Hammer's Jewish mother, it starts to nag at you after awhile.
The movie hits as much as it misses, with enough witty observations to ensure that somewhere, Kesselman's mother is kvelling.
Kesselman's thin script generally is funniest when it's riffing on Jewish stereotypes and goyish bigotry.
A crass, sophomoric and, more to the point, offensively unfunny parody.
Doesn't quite nail it, but it's not as bad as it sounds, either.
plays like a lower (much, much lower) budgeted, Jewish version of Malcolm Lee’s funnier Undercover Brother
Would have worked brilliantly as a five-minute late-night comedy sketch.
You may not always laugh at it. But you can't help indulging its junior-high jitters.
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