You Don't Mess With the Zohan (2008)

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Columbia Pictures - Columbia Pictures
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Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Jun 6, 2008
Running Time: 113 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Zohan, a top Israeli commando, fakes his own death in order to pursue his dream: becoming a hairstylist in New York. Though he wants to put his life of counter-terrorism behind him, he quickly finds that it is not so easy to escape one’s roots. As enemies old and new try to take him out, they will all come to learn the same thing: you don’t mess with the Zohan.
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rating  PETER TRAVERS - June 26, 2008
Given the missed opportunities for sharpening silliness with satire, it's impossible not to mess with the Zohan. There's a risky idea in the script cooked up by star Adam Sandler and his co-writers, Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow: What if Sandler played a Mossad commando named Zohan who fakes his death and comes to New York to live his dream of making the world "silky smooth" by cutting and styling hair? And what if the only job he could get was working in a Brooklyn salon run by a Palestinian… Continued
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For all of Adam Sandler's juvenile comedies, You Don't Mess with the Zohan ranks up there and should please those Sandler-ites out there.

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Sandler is arguably one of the smartest movie moguls in Hollywood. As a writer/star/producer, he knows exactly who his audience is and gives them exactly what they want and expect--for better or worse. In this case, it's slightly better than most. He is Zohan, a super-skilled, super-buff--and many times, super-naked--Israeli Mossad agent, who can stop… Continued

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Philip Cavan
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