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Zohan Dvir (Adam Sandler) is seemingly the best assassin/anti-terrorist fighter in his country, but he wants to leave that life and become a hair dresser. He decides to move to America and become just that and along the way meets some terrorists who vow to kill him. Also, he struggles to get a job as a hair dresser and when he finally does he makes the failing salon he works for become the most popular place in town. The popularity does bring unwanted attention to himself and his employer though.

Everything Else

The directing was not up to par with a well made witty comedy, but it is perfect for the filth presented in Zohan. Zohan fails to get away from the immature sex jokes and crude humor that apparently Sandler and Smigel thought up. Dennis Dugan should be ashamed to shoot such a pointless and tasteless film and Sandler knows better.

Rob Schneider is exactly the guy I would expect to see in a film like this and he plays his part as a terrorist quite well. John Turturro also does well here, but all of the actors have found themselves in a poorly made movie. Some of the comedy is spot on and will have you rolling out of your seat, but then they mix embarrassing and gross humor into it that completely negates the comic genius you were just presented.

The Real Deal

If you like the gross comedies out there, then this is perfect for you. If on the other hand you are looking for something that has a little more class and is actually well made then I would steer clear of this one. Adam Sandler seems to be a hit and miss kind of actor/writer these days; you never know which way he is going to turn. The basic concept of Zohan was great, but the execution was almost unbearable.

David’s Score: 4/10

Written by David from Dave’s Movie Reviews

The Promotion opens in theaters on June 6, 2008 against You Don’t Mess With The Zohan.

This trailer is much more action packed than the teaser trailer that came out some months ago. It actually looks pretty funny although it’s still pretty hard to picture Adam Sandler as either a tough Israili commando or a sexually confused hairdresser wanna-be.

Apatow has tapped Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann to star in the next comedy he’ll direct. The untitled film will be a co-production of Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment with production to start in late summer or early fall.

Apatow is the sole writer on the project and is keeping the plot under tight wrap. Whatever he comes up with it’s gotta be funnier than Chuck and Larry…

Sandler next appears in You Don’t Mess with the Zohan which was actually written by Apatow and Sandler and is set for release on June 6, 2008.

Then I went to IMDB (the haven for movie buffs) to research it a bit and I saw this:

“Written by Adam Sandler AND Judd Apatow.”

The next thing I said was “Self, if Judd Apatow is involved in this, it possibly could be the best Adam Sandler movie ever.”

Self agreed with me and so here we are. The movie is called “You don’t mess with the Zohan” and the plot summary is stranger than anything you probably could come up with on your own, even if you had all day to think and sniffed plenty of glue the night before.

A Mossad agent fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist.

Yeah, Sandler plays almost a super-awesome military guy, like a Rambo, from a Middle Eastern country, who grows tired of wars and blood, so he goes to New York to cut hair. He gets there, cuts hair in a sexy way I guess (from the trailer, it’s sort of hard to tell), and suddenly lines form outside the salon he works in.

Of course, not everyone believes he’s dead and some enemies come looking for him, or so I gather.

The bottom line is this:

It’s Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow. I don’t even care if Sandler’s last movie was “Chuck and Larry”, one of the worst he’s ever made…if he’s doing a film with the guy who brought us “Superbad” and “Knocked Up” and “Freaks and Geeks“, bring it on!

Not to mention Apatow is also a part of another new movie coming out on December 21st called “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story“, which so far has 5 fresh ratings and 0 rotten on Rotten Tomatoes and also great reviews by Richard Roeper and whoever his guest was at the time.

He’s on a roll right now, and Sandler hooking up with him to do a new film was likely a genius move.

There are also going to be some cameos in this one, from Mariah Carey to Dave Matthews (who will be playing a “red neck terrorist“). And of course Rob Schneider, who’s been in like every Sandler movie EVER.

Can’t wait for this one. It hits theaters June 6th, 2008.