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Hummus Jokes & A Stuffed Crotch Are "Funny" In You Don't Want To Mess With The Zohan [Critical Mass]
Published 6/6/2008 by maria-mercedes at Jezebel
... : In You Don't Mess With the Zohan , Adam Sandler manages to stereotype pretty much everyone in the Western Hemisphere. It's not like he's bravely confronting political correctness by reveling in expressing the nastiest stereotypes; it's more like he hasn't heard of political correctness and is unfamiliar with the concept of stereotypes in the first place. His mind is stuck at the 8-year-old level. Christianity Today : But politics of some sort is never far from view, and just as I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry ended on a didactic note, so too You Don't Mess with the ...

You Don't Mess with the Zohan -- the review's up!
Published 6/6/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Peter T Chattaway) at FilmChat
My review of You Don't Mess with the Zohan is now up at CT Movies. There are several points I toyed with making in this review but never got around to, either for word-count reasons or because my writing just got into a certain groove and I didn't feel I could shoehorn them in. These include: The sheer abundance of hummus. The fact that Zohan has posters of KISS frontman Gene Simmons, who was born in Israel, and eyepatched Israeli general Moshe Dayan on his bedroom wall -- which neatly sums ...