Our local (flaming queer) movie critic interrupted a Kung Fu Panda review he was doing to say how crappy it was. And he wants to know if Adam has something to tell us? I mean, first a movie where he marries another guy but he isn’t gay, now he’s a hairdresser in daisy dukes who worships Paul Mitchell but he isn’t gay?
Adam, do you need to share? 
I have never seen an Adam Sandler movie, and I don’t see myself starting any time soon. Love those stupid Hannukah songs, though…
Punch Drunk Love is pretty good (but isn’t really a comedy.)
I’ve never been into Adam Sandler comedies, but I’ve liked him a lot in dramas. He was brilliant in Punch-Drunk Love. It was my favorite movie of its year, though I always considered it a Paul Thomas Anderson film starring Adam Sandler, not an Adam Sandler movie directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. And while not great movies, I thought he was quite decent in Spanglish and Reign Over Me.
All that said, the Zohan trailer makes me laugh in spite of myself, I don’t know why, and damn, I’ll probably go see it at some point.
But then, I love Judd Apatow and will support anything he breathes on.
And, off-topic, but I thought Munich was an excellent movie.
ETA: Ooops, Sage Rat beat me to it.
You do know Pauly Shore is still alive?
Adam Sandler Lampoons Mel Gibson In "Zohan" | HuffPost Entertainment This story says it is a lampoon of Mel Gibson . He is a point of some of the scenes. That is a good reason to see it.
Well fucking said.
Click was good too. I’m interested in this one, and I’m not a big fan by any stretch.
The trailer just makes me laugh.
I am so stealing this.
So am I the only Doper who’s seen this since it came out? I have a lot of time to kill this week, so I decided to catch a matinee showing.
I was dying. It’s an Adam Sandler movie through and through, so there’s lots of juvenility, but it’s funny as hell. Having Apatow and Smigel in on the script really made a difference. Even Rob Schneider didn’t suck.
The only caveat, which threw me off-guard in the first 15 minutes before I got with the program, is the over-the-topness. The feet uppercut in the trailer is only a small taste of the cartoonishness of the movie. The opening scene shows Zohan casually beating three muscle jockeys in a tug of war. If you go in expecting something relatively realistic, you’re gonna be disappointed; it’s basically like Speed Racer, only the non-realism isn’t nearly as constant and intense.
The plot revolves around the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and amazingly enough it’s handled pretty neutrally. Zohan’s an Israeli, so he’s obviously biased, but the movie itself presents both sides in equal light. I can’t say it’ll heal any wounds, but it gave me another perspective on the conflict, I’ll certainly say that much.
Bottom line, though; if you can handle seeing Sandler’s bare ass and laugh at gigantic package jokes, it’ll be hilarious, go see it. If you can’t, well, you probably knew you wouldn’t like it when you heard it’s a Sandler movie anyway. 
I read the reviews at Metacritic, and they’re very strange. This is a really polarizing movie. The score for the movie is only 54, which usually means it’s pretty bad. But then you start reading the reviews, and the first ones happen to be from all the major critics - Ebert, David Edelstein, Richard Shickel, and all love it. Scores in the 80’s. Extremely high for this kind of movie. Then you scroll down a little farther, and suddenly the reviews are in the 20’s. Reviewers who absolutely despised it.
Not having seen it, I can’t help but wonder why it could be so polarizing. Is it the political angle? Some people aren’t ready to make light of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Or is it the slapstick? Some of the reviews aren’t available, and the couple of bad ones I read didn’t really shed much light on it. But it’s fairly peculiar.
wrong account
Just keep in mind, A.O. Scott also positively reviewed “Freddy Got Fingered.” (A review I actually agree with, but which is wildly unpopular, scoring a 13 on Metacritic, and 10% on Rotten Tomatoes.)
I use to never like Adam Sandler and I’m not even sure why. He’s certainly had some films I’ve liked (Airheads, The Wedding Singer, The Longest Yard and Chuck & Larry), but overall, I gave his stuff a pass. Then I saw the commercial for this and for the first time ever, I thought he was pretty freakin’ hot.
I know.
Sometime shortly after that, I regrettably watched the most recent MTV movie awards and they did a tribute to him. He sang something similar to “Simply the Best” (although I’m not sure it’s that) and made me laugh my ass off. Plus rethink my position. So…
Now I want to go back and catch things like Little Nicky and Billy Madison. And rent this too, when it hits DVD. I think I’m glad my opinion changed. He seems to be a pretty decent actor after all, not to mention the fact that he’s always been rumored to be a great guy. Sounds win-win to me. If only I’ll find this as hilarious as Bosstone did, life will be complete.
they went the easy route by making the commando-turned-foppish-hairdresser an Israeli. i think it would have been funnier if they made him a member of the Taliban or Iran’s secret police or something, but oh yeah then they would have had hundreds of death threats. So they went with the Israeli. The easy way. lame.
It’s not a howler of a movie by any stretch, but I giggled like a maniac the entire way through. There’s always something goofy on screen.
Gimme a break, friend. You’re the one who said, “Sandler has made us all laugh before…” If people want to point out that Sandler has NEVER made them laugh, who are you to disagree with them?
Look, I’m sorry if a good number of people here don’t share your sense of humor. What do you want us to do, though… Repent of our ways and revel in the comedic master that is Adam Sandler?
Nope and maybe.
Having my wisdom teeth pulled looks WAY funnier than that Mike Myers movie.
I own Cat in the Hat on DVD and still watch it from time to time, as much of a stinker as it is, and I still plan to pass on this. It’s obvious Myers and the movie premise just don’t click together.
I don’t much like Sandler myself, but he was perfect in that movie. It was a very different role for him, but it suited him to a tee.
My impression of Punch Drunk Love was that it was a fascinating look at what would happen if you took a character from an Adam Sandler Movie and put him in the real world, or at least a world that wasn’t the Adam Sandlerverse.