Don't Mess With The Zohan

What a film! I got this on Doovdee last night, and spread the joy around my house, and all I can say is ''So lets go". It's really fucking funny. The first hour is genius, full of a perfect blend of slapstick, punchlines and idle racism for teenagers to laugh at. It has the same feel as Team America, race arguments could be sparked if it weren't for the fact that you know the writers are having a dig at the racists, not the races. Anyone could have played the Zohan, you don't really notice that it's an Adam Sandler film because he's matured in the weakest of ways. He no longer plays a teenager in men's clothing, but instead a, can I say, intelligent Israeli terrorist who has dreams of cutting hair. Rob Schneider isn't even annoying in it! He's funny, but mainly because it's not one of his films. I was unaware that Judd Apatow had a writing credit, which probably means it was brought up a notch by him in the writing process.

Reading critical reviews on wikipedia, it got slated as only pleasing diehard Sandler fans, and 14 year old children, yet the review went on to say 'the film also has an "unusual" amount of "tantalizing comic ideas" so that "every 10 minutes or so, it makes you explode with laughter."'. Is that not a comedy film!? I challenge anyone to find a modern day comedy that doesn't have a stop-start feel, we've long moved on from the days of Airplane and Police Squad, where every frame has a gag enclosed. Most of the highest grossing comedies of the last couple of years, I feel, struggle to make you explode with laughter, but just have you giggling like the stoners who wrote them throughout. I laughed out loud on my own at this so much more than I did with Superbad, which is SO over-rated. Knocked Up is hilarious, a really funny film, but it's not exactly laugh-a-minute. It poses some rather intense questions at times, and even has that part just after the hour mark that goes serious. This film doesn't have that so to speak, as the serious part is about Zohan lacking an erection. I just feel that people are slating this film by marking it amongst the entire Sandler oeuvre, which has lacked depth in its last 3 or 4 outings. If you ignore the Happy Madison stamp, or possibly replaced it with the hands of Parker and Stone, this film would not have been slated.

Again, to defend this films slating, unless your a sophisticated person who fails to find anything funny ever, then this film will make you laugh. Frequently and loudly.