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You Don’t Mess With The Zohan


Now before I continue with the review let me tell you that I am a big Adam Sandler film fan, The likes of The Waterboy, Happy Gilmore, Eight Crazy Nights and Big Daddy all rank highly in my list of favourite comedy films, so if you’re like me and appreciate this type of silly, easy on the mind, chill out comedy then continue reading.

SPOILERS INCLUDED You Don’t Mess With The Zohan is about an elite Israeli soldier (Sandler), he can take out armies single handed, catch bullets in his nostrils, and place piranha’s in his Speedos without feeling any pain, think of Rambo starring in Hot Shots and you won’t be far wrong, anyway Zohan is getting bored of life in the army, as every time he catches the other side’s main evil doer “The Phantom” his government trades him back to the other side in exchange for some of their spies, so on his latest mission to capture The Phantom (John Turturro) he decides to fake his own death, and in a ping pong battle with grenades, he takes a dive and comes to America to pursue his real love of hairdressing.

Once Zohan arrives in America he heads to his favourite salon that of professional hairdresser Paul Mitchell and he gets laughed at for his 80 style hair, clothes and moves, so he decides to find work elsewhere and take Mitchell down.


Like most of Sandler’s films it also features an underlying love story, with the love interest in this film being played by the stunning Emmanuelle Chriqui, who doubles up as Zohan’s boss in the hair salon. Some local taxi drivers recognise The Zohan and ring home to tell The Phantom (who is now a national hero for despatching The Zohan) that he is still alive, and so he heads to the US to finish him off.

Cameos from Rob Sneider, Chris Rock and George Takei amongst others also enhance the tale, which skates on top of the very real back story of Middle Eastern conflict.

Overall
You Don’t Mess With The Zohan is a no brainer, it’s funny for most of the film, and whilst it’s not going to win any prizes for originality it is defiantly worth the price of an entry ticket or rental once it is released, the only word of caution I would say is that unless you have good hearing wait until the DVD release so you can slap on those useful subtitles as I struggled to understand Sandler’s accent at times (when I first started watching it I couldn’t work out if he was trying to be Brazilian or French) and I can usually understand a thick Geordie or Scottish accent.

Rating: ★★★½☆

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