Reviews -- Zohan

[jack]

I've decided to start saving myself a lot of pain and reviewing movies before I've seen them. In the first few seconds of the trailer, Don't Mess With The Zohan looked pretty promising, but then I realised:

* I'd confused Adam Sandler with Ben Stiller. (Both can play the same sort of nice-but-dumb jock/nerd, but Ben Stiller had been really good in several movies I hadn't even realised were him, on account of his acting, whereas Sandler always did ok, but I didn't really like anything he was in.)
* Zohan was not after all an Arab counter-terrorist special forces agent, but an Israeli one. That's still much more interesting than one from a pure Anglophile country, but much less interesting than I'd thought
* There was a lot of painfully embarrassing negative humour.

I might watch it on DVD, it looks like it has funny things in. And I'd still like to see the movie I thought it was. But judging from the IMDB reviews, it's an exquisitely Sandlerest movie, and you'll love it if you love Sandler movies, and vilify it if you don't.

ETA: If you haven't seen the movie, Sandler plays the top Israeli counter-terrorist agent, who retires to America to become a hairdresser. (And his old life catches up with him, and much juvenile and slapstick hijinks ensue.)

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[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I surprised myself by laughing at the trailer, but that probably contains all the best bits.