I feel torn about "You Don't Mess with the Zohan", b/c Judd Apatow & Robert Smigel helped write it...

Judd Apatow wrote Celtic Pride too, man

But maybe Celtic Pride is a forgotten gem. I saw it when I was like ten or eleven and I don't really remember much beyond me and my dad being half the people in the theater. I was gonna defend Sandler but this millennium has been kind of a hot mess for him

The trailer is the one of the worst things I've seen in a while. For the most part, Adam Sandler comedies are really bad. But the rule of thumb seems to be that if he's doing a 'funny' accent, they are much much worse.

Chasing that Borat money.

I really wish Sandler made more dramas. I loved him in Reign Over Me and Punch Drunk Love. Spanglish was better than most of his comedies.

Click even redeemed itself at the end.

I don't see this lending itself to tender moments, though.

we need more adam sandler movies

Everybody I know who saw it liked Reign Over Me but Dylan Sandler & Cheadle rounding a corner on a Razr scooter in the rain as Eddie Vedder wails is too absurd and cherished a filmic image for me to spoil by actually watching and presumably liking the movie

I don't see this lending itself to tender moments, though.

Yeah. And that 'funny' accent rule = OTM

tuturro is in at least three sandler films now. i think they bros.

my friends & i thought celtic pride was one of the funniest movies ever when we were 10 or 11.

the part where he beats up the jesus freak dude!

"The movie also features a professional footbag (popularly known as "hacky sack") tournament."

this kind of shit is getting way way way overdone.

i just saw this. well, i guess adam sandler has made his "munich."

Is that a good thing?

http://i17.tinypic.com/6ptj2ua.gif

judd apatow involvement on anything has become a big red flag for me

he's involved with everything these days, good and bad.

given the choice between a comedy with apatow attached and not, i'd go with the former, considering how shitty 90% of h'wood comedies turn out.

You don't mess with the Smigel, or something:

"He's one of my best friends," Smigel said of Sandler. "I always thought he was one of the most brilliant people I worked with at 'SNL.' Very subversive. Because he would always come off like a dumb guy, not just to the audience but to the staff on the show. People were dismissing what he was doing as sketch comedy but he was deconstructing it, breaking down sketch comedy in a cynical but friendly way."

As executive producer on "Zohan," however, Smigel stuck to his priorities. Job one, of course, was to be funny. But the writer-producer-actor -- whose humor derives its power from being broad and scatological and anything but politically correct -- made it a point to avoid dehumanizing Zohan's Palestinian nemeses.

In one scene in which Zohan is dodging grenades and punching terrorists through walls, a turban-wearing character comments, "Oh, so we're the bad guys?" And as Zohan kicks him off a balcony onto a pile of ammunition boxes, the terrorist asserts: "It's more complicated than that."

"We wanted to convey that Zohan's had these fights a million times with these guys to the point where they can have crazy philosophical arguments while they're having crazy action moves," Smigel said. "I didn't want to take one side or the other, or for the movie to have an answer to the Middle East crisis. If there is a message, it's that hate is an institutional thing that's learned."

He paused for a moment before finishing his thought: "But it wouldn't be funny if absolutely nobody was offended."

Did anyone ever watch that half-hour TV Funhouse thing Smigel did, with the animal puppets?

Article sez it's about to come out on DVD

It was pretty funny ... they only made like, 6 episodes of that thing.

Did anyone ever watch that half-hour TV Funhouse thing Smigel did, with the animal puppets?

only like every night, it made me feel dirty and horrible like i was watching snuff films or something

I like when the puppets figured out they could suck "Christmas cheer" out of his spine and snort it to get high.

one problem: theres no such name as Zohan in Israel

what tracer means is that it was fkn great

I met a guy who says the Zohan does this new hackey sack sport at the end of the movie (which Adam and footbaggers invented on the spot at a real footbag competition). It's a mix between soccer and hackey sack. Anyways the guy I met is the goalie for Adam Sandler's team. If you've never seen a youtube of the best footbagging skills in the world it's worth watching. It's one of those things you appreciate more if you've ever taught yourself how to keep it up and do a few simple tricks.

http://www.montrealmirror.com/2008/060508/film4.html

Man your review has kind of made me want to see it. I like the awkwardly incomprehensible.

Sandler looks relatively hot with poofy hair.

omg morbs, you trash on francois sagat and now this

what is wrong with you???

come down and fix me, fella. ;)

btw elmo, d'you know that porn star just dropped the "e" from the name of the author of Bonjour Tristesse? (unless it's really his name... but it's like a US porn star being called Jack Susann)

It was kinda funny that sandler came on the Daily Show last night not well-dressed enough to mow the lawn.

my name-a zohan

i hope you like

"You Like-A The Juice?": The Movie

Smigel was one of the you likeathejuice guys

and one of Bill Swerski's superfans

"You Like-A The Juice?": The Movie

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:06 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Just came in here to post this after seeing it. I beat me to it.

This wasn't a bad movie. It got kinda formulaic towards the end, but especially during the first half there were lots of laughs. And even though it was kinda schmaltzy, I thought the "lets work together" ending was okay, considering that this was basically a brainless comedy dealing with a rather touchy subject matter.

The totally random cat torture scene was kinda "Wtf?!", though. I can't believe they tried to play that for laughs.

i finally saw this randomly on cable last night

holy shit this is a bizarre film

i think...i....loved it?

best gross out comedy about israel/palestinian relations ever, easy

i wish it had all been like the first action sequence bit.

i mean, it's better than 'click', i'll say that.

this is still the best looking movie i've ever seen on Blu-Ray fwiw

haaa really

my friend had this on BR and i was all "yeah you REALLY NEED BR to appresh the adam sandler comedy 'you don't mess with the zohan', it is what the format was INVENTED FOR, HURRRRR"... but apparently it is so.

it was like i was messing with the zohan right in my living room it was amazing

u took the wrong message away from the movie then - u DONT mess with the z.

If only James Cameron had used this for his 3D breakthrough

u dont mess with the na'vi

Funny People...in IMAX!

"best gross out comedy about israel/palestinian relations ever"
have you seen Munich?

i saw a lil bit of this on cable a few months ago and i gotta say that i did lol @ them putting out the fire w/ hummus

like on one level, you're all like "okay it's a smigel + sandler thing about a hairdressing super jewish badass" and it makes sense

but then you step back and are like wtf am i watching?

it's kinda like stepbrothers in that respect

I meant to look for and bump this thread around Thanksgiving when I watched this with my brother and sister-in-law. Holy hell.

Ever since I have had a strong urge to play hackey-sack with cats.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/20/world/international-us-emirates-assassination-israel.html