The corker-to-groaner ratio heavily favors the latter as the bagel-and-dreidel jokes begin to lose their spark, as does the story.
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12/18/03
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Hebrew Hammer (2003)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:12
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.1/10
Theatrical Release:Dec 19, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: THE HEBREW HAMMER is a holiday movie that is most definitely not for kids. Adam Goldberg stars as Mordechai Jefferson Carver, also known as the Hebrew Hammer, a private detective who has an... [More]
Starring: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick, Sean Whalen
Director: Jonathan Kesselman
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Reviews for Hebrew Hammer
plays like a lower (much, much lower) budgeted, Jewish version of Malcolm Lee’s funnier Undercover Brother
12/19/03
Kesselman keeps the movie crackling with the raucous energy absent since Mel Brooks' heyday.
04/08/04
Top CriticThe movie starts out hilarious but like The Hammer's Jewish mother, it starts to nag at you after awhile.
01/09/04
Even a gentile can appreciate the witty wordplay and visual puns flying off the screen at a mile a minute.
04/27/03
A scattershot assortment of jokes that is funniest when it sticks to its neat premise.
04/08/04
The result is explicit, if less than hilarious.
12/16/03
Top CriticDesperation is the project's principal quality.
01/30/04
Top Critic[E]nds up veering from ridiculous but pointed commentary into abusing and insulting those [the film] intends to champion...
12/21/04
A hit-and-miss affair.
12/19/03
Top CriticUneven, profane and occasionally flat-out hilarious.
12/19/03
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.
04/29/04
A crass, sophomoric and, more to the point, offensively unfunny parody.
12/19/03
Top CriticKesselman's thin script generally is funniest when it's riffing on Jewish stereotypes and goyish bigotry.
12/23/03
Top CriticCorny and crude at times, but effective in its single-minded pursuit of laughs.
02/09/05
Everybody needs a little burlesque fun with his digital reprogramming, and the politically incorrect good times barely let up in this story.
04/09/04
Would have worked brilliantly as a five-minute late-night comedy sketch.
12/18/03
Top CriticYou may not always laugh at it. But you can't help indulging its junior-high jitters.
12/18/03
Top CriticUnfunny rather than outrageous as intended.
12/18/03
Top CriticOne of the biggest joys here is the conversion of Adam Goldberg from 'colorful backup' to 'comic action hero', and while The Hebrew Hammer may not vault the actor into leading man status, he easily carries the entire movie.
02/10/03
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