You Don't Mess with the Zohan Critic Reviews

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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Sandler works so hard at this, and so shamelessly, that he battered down my resistance. Like a Jerry Lewis out of control, he will do, and does, anything to get a laugh. No thinking adult should get within a mile of this film. I must not have been thinking. For my sins, I laughed.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

Nothing has brought me more cheap pleasure at a movie this year than the sight of shampoo and conditioner bottles falling off a rocking wall while comedian Alec Mapa, as a fellow stylist, tries to keep a straight face. He does a much better job than I did.Read the full review

The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites

Brazenly self-confident in its refusal to pander to the imagined sensitivity of its audience. In this it differs notably from Albert Brooks's "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World," which approached some of the same topics with misplaced thoughtfulness and tact.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Sheri LindenAdd Critic to Favorites

The comedy star's legions of fans will welcome the cheerfully crude proceedings as a return to silliness after several earnest, lower-key character turns. The melange of Middle East diplomacy, action absurdity, sexual healing and, when in doubt, hummus, wavers between muscular and middling. It's a surefire hit.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

The laughs are hit and miss and the movie is ho-hummus.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Mark OlsenAdd Critic to Favorites

As another run-of-the-mill Sandler movie, it is better than most. At this point it seems a little foolish to want, let alone expect, "more" from the guy. If he can't be bothered to put more effort into his films, why should anybody else?Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

Forget "Monty Python," You Don't Mess With the Zohan is a circus that never really flies.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites

Spectacularly, unimpeachably, relentlessly preposterous.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

By the end of the film, the cliché of everybody getting along is reduced to both sides working together in the ultimate monument to capitalism: a mall. Some message.Read the full review

Washington Post | Stephen HunterAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie is gross but not unfunny as it covers the Zohan's rise through hair culture, aided by his steamy heterosexuality, his lack of inhibition and his stereotypical career aggressiveness, until the old ladies are lined up all the way to the Bronx for a few minutes of bliss in the Zohan's chair.Read the full review

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