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Dir. Dennis Dugan
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As peculiar as it sounds, director Dennis Dugan tries his best to use the comedic genius of Adam Sandler to analyze serious territorial tension between Palestinians and Israelis. Sandler, for his part, seems to be having a great time kicking terrorist butt, catching bullets is his nose, and of course dancing his ass off at the disco, the problem is that no matter how many terrorists Sandler dispatches, he still can't drop kick clichés. The irony of the indestructible, all-purpose Zohan, an Israeli special agent, moving to New York City and not being able to find a simple job styling hair, is, perhaps, as subtle as this film ever manages. The Sandler regular Rob Schneider also rears his head as a terrorist looking to take the Zohan down. While it might make sense that the Zohan no longer wants to fight for his country in what seemed to be a never ending war, the story starts to lose coherence when the love interest (Emmanuelle Chriqui) he meets in America coincidently turns out to be the sister of his most hated Palestinian counterpart. It isn’t too hard to figure out what happens next. You guessed correctly. Of course, the Palestinians and Israelis come together to fight a common enemy, but this enemy turns out to be corporate America? Somehow Dugan finds a way to transpose the conflict from the ceaseless war between two countries, to a corporate business man who doesn't care for either side. There may be some sort of message here, buried under double entendres, Sandler doing splits that defy human physics and lots and lots of gruesome animal jokes, but for the life of me, I couldn't care less.
The Unrated DVD special features include commentary with Adam Sandler, Rob Scneider, Nick Swardson and director Dennis Dugan. It also features deleted scenes, and behind the scenes featurettes.
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