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Mensch, God Laughs at this Golden Oldie of Sandlers, You should, too.

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Dear God, Did you Laugh as Much at ""You Don't Mess With the Zohan" as I did? By Kevin Stoda   Dear God, Did you laugh as much at Adam Sandler's (2008) as much as I did?   I bet you did. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZF_IQg6-Mw&feature=related   "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" is so filled with irony about the promised land that the laughter nearly brought me to tears.   The Middle East is so full of tears anyway that we know you Y"".. must share in these tears--along with the laughter there any way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1sSScgXGuk&feature=related Stephanie Zacharak was right when she writes: "Despite the bare butts and crude sex jokes -- or because of them -- this Adam Sandler vehicle addresses some of the biggest political problems of our time."

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2008/06/06/zohan/

 

Sadly, I was living in the Middle East when the film came out in 2008--and most Arab countries didn't put it in the movie theaters. So, until I saw it tonight here at the edge of East Asia, I had been oblivious to the film's existence.   Amazingly, the film is not highly rated in most media venues and many internet site rating systems.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxZdzH_I1kE&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

FINEST POST-ZIONIST ACTION HAIRDRESSING COMEDY EVER

 

Nonetheless, "[o]n the positive side, Time claimed the film to be a "laff scuffle," and Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars.   David Edelstein of New York Magazine went as far as to say "Adam Sandler is mesmerizing," and A.O Scott of The New York Times said it was "the finest post-Zionist action-hairdressing sex comedy I have ever seen.'"

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don%27t_Mess_with_the_Zohan#Reception

 

Writing for Salon.com , Zacharak notes that in "'You Don't Mess With the Zohan' -- in which Adam Sandler plays an Israeli counterterrorist commando whose big dream is to become a hairdresser -- is the movie "Munich" [2005] should have been. At the very least, it's got to be the first picture to use smelly-feet jokes as a means of parsing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

 

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