I was very disappointed with this move, as the promotional clips were funny. Maybe if I was still struggling through pubescence I might be kinder to "Zohan", I very well may have loved it. But one idiotic ribald joke/situation after another grows tiring very quickly. The tries to make some lame point about "why can't we just get along, hey, this is America, we're all equal here, right?" Obvious as that is, at least the sentiment is a good one. Too bad it gets bogged down in so much "almost-already-out-of-date" topical humor and the above mentioned onslaught of crudity.Plus, the character, Zohan, is one of the least likable ones Adam Sandler has ever played. That alone sinks the film.
NOTE TO ANY PARENTS WHO MAY BE CONSIDERING TAKING THE YOUNGSTERS TO SEE "ZOHAN"...it wasn't very long ago when a movie filled with this much sexually-oriented content would have been given an R rating. There's no flat out nudity (unless you count a couple of shots of Sandler's ass), but make no mistake, the gratuitous sexual references in "You Don't Mess Around With the Zohan" are as thick as flies on a piece of...well, you get my drift. It's a wonder there weren't hordes of them buzzing around the screen when I saw this yesterday.
PS...for the record, I AM NO PRUDE, but there comes a point when enough is enough, it's just not funny anymore. "Zohan" reached that point within the first 30 minutes.
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