A cross between Borat and Fading Gigolo. A superhero movie where the superheroes are an Israeli and a Palestinian. Go figure. Many moments of laugh-out-loud rollicking good fun. Ludicrous, insane, outrageous, ridiculous and just very funny. No, it certainly doesn't pass the Bechdel test. Worse, the women, and there are many, all seem to have scripts that require them to swoon at the sight/touch of Adam Sandler's gyrating crotch and buttocks that can catch a flying fish. But who cares? Time to put all sensibility to one side and have a good belly laugh.

Zohan is Israel's top counter-terrorist operative but he has had enough of conflict; he just wants to retire and become a hair stylist. To this end he fakes his own death and heads to New York. When he gets there he is turned down by every salon he approaches; eventually he gets a job sweeping up the hair in a small salon run by a Palestinian woman. Eventually she gives him a chance to cut hair and he satisfies all his female customers… and not just due to his skills with the scissors! There are a couple of problems though; a Palestinian taxi driver recognises him and contacts Zohan's foe 'The Phantom' and the man who owns all the local shops is putting up rents to drive out his tenants; when that fails he tries to set the Jewish and Arab tenants against each other.This Adam Sandler vehicle has a good central idea and features plenty of genuinely funny moments… it also has moments are just too silly or somewhat crude. Some people will find these excesses hilarious; others will find it ruins the film for them; I just thought it was a distraction from the better parts. Sandler was funny enough as Zohan and the supporting cast were solid enough. There is some action although it is played for silly laughs rather trying to be even vaguely believable. Overall I'd say this was funny enough but not a must see unless you are a die-hard Sandler fan.

This is an Adam Sandler movie, don't go if you do not like him. If you do like him, as I do, then it is really funny, ironic, crazy and in the end also makes you think. There are a lot of sexual references, I watched it with my teenager kids and yes, we were laughing a lot together. I would not say it is a family movie, but definitely can entertain both parents and teenage kids at the same time. John Turturro is very funny even if one would with the script to leave him more free to act, unfortunately he is only playing the lunatic. In the end I really recommend this movie, alone or together with family, I laughed all the time. Maybe not a good idea for date movie though...

It shouldn't be a shock to the system that Adam Sandler can still churn out rubbish films. You Don't Mess with the Zohan is at the bottom of those rubbish films. His sporadic Israelian-special-agent-turned-hair-stylist is irritating. His accent is poor, and his mannerisms consist of shaking his crutch, pleasuring elderly ladies and saying 'no' repeatedly. None of these overused jokes are funny, and the same goes for everything else in between. A political stance on the ever present Palestinian - Israeli conflict is the strongest aspect of this comedy. It sits in the background, overshadowed by the silly puns. When Zohan's nemesis Phantom (Turturro) comes to New York, the humour picks up: the Israelis and Palestinians in New York squabble over western matters instead of important ones. A neat move that comes too late, as it's be a waste of 113 minutes of your life to stick around to the end.