Review of You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) by Johnny T — 02 Mar 2011

The only problem with Zohan, however, is that it's like a kid who tells you a silly joke, gets a laugh, and immediately tells the same joke again. Sandler's first collaboration with co-writer and current Hollywood comedy godhead Judd Apatow, is a crazed, delightfully bizarre return to form for Sandler. Director Dennis Dugan knows his way around shin-whacking slapstick, and Sandler is mesmerizing. Intermittently fresh and amusing in a low-down yet schmaltzy way. 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.

VERDICT: "Rental" - (Negative to Mixed reaction). These films are only worth renting because of certain good things that are worth seeing, but are not worth paying at a theater to see due to bad things that overcome anything good.