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(1 - 37) of 37 OFCS Rating: 35% Rotten Page   1   "Although this film could've been hilarious, almost every scene ends up as crude or just plain silly. But Adam Sandler looks terrific as Zohan!"   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 3.5/5 "From the wholly insular and yet perfectly realized fantasy world it creates to the nonstop barrage of ethnic slams, You Don't Mess with the Zohan is a comedy of contradictions.."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B- "There's just enough chutzpah to Zohan to keep it amusing and sporadically uproarious. It's a decent comedy construct: a film one unforgiving editorial pass away from greatness."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf D+ "Hopes are dashed for the screenwriting contribution of Judd Apatow to elevate Adam Sandler as a poor man's Groucho Marx..."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 4/10 "You Don't Mess with the Zohan is cacophonous and competitive comedy, more exhausting than fun."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "he film might be rated PG-13, but with this sort of verbal wit, it appears to be aimed at first-graders."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger B- "A movie that de-glorifies sex into a tool used for career advancement, altruistic joy and in lieu of "thank-you" note? Sign me up!"   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2/4 "...the latest in a long line of underwhelming Adam Sandler comedies..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1/4 "A desperate, miserable experience."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C "Just when you think they're on to something, the film reverts to the usual Sandler and Co. laziness"   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider D+ "No matter what you think about Zohan's humor or its politics, in no universe should it have been longer than 85 minutes. 112 is punishment."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 1.5/4 "Director Duggan serves up a scattershot satire that is about as funny as a Palestinian landmine at an Israeli kiddie birthday party. Broad, offensive and thinly veiled..."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C- "Another in the string of exercises in coarse infantilism that represent the studios' idea of farce nowadays."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "Three cheers for a crazy wisdom hero who wants to make the world a kinder, gentler place!"   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "The result is another flabby comedy that gets its biggest laughs from thinly-covered penises and bare buttocks."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 0/5 "Let's not mince words here, or hem and haw and add caveats about a few laughs or good intentions: You Don't Mess With the Zohan is astonishingly, impressively, depressingly bad."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 1/10 "Click here to read review"   vj.net.ua   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk C- "For as stupid as it is, part of its problem is that it really isn't stupid enough."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr C+ "With the talented eye of an experienced editor from outside the Happy Madison circle, "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" might have actually been good."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1/3 "Probablemente en un gag televisivo -los primeros minutos tienen su gracia- sean muy divertidos, pero casi dos horas de actores untados en betún es mucho. Demasiado."   Off-Off-Critica   MalaBesta "[A]voids that pitfall that brings down this genre of nutty comedy far more often than not: there's nothing meanspirited about it. It's crude in many ways... but it's never vulgar, and in fact it's often strikingly sweet."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "You Don't Mess With the Zohan tries to mix high-brow satire with low-brow gross-out humor. The combination kills the story's pacing."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "Somewhere inside this Adam Sandler slacker silliness there is a fierce and provocative little satire trying to get out."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2.5/4 "Zohan is, against all odds, Sandler's funniest effort in close to a decade. Not exactly a monumental feat given the junk he's recently made a mint foisting on the American public, but still."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "O pior filme da carreira de Adam Sandler... e se considerarmos que estamos falando do gênio por trás de O Paizão e Little Nicky, esta constatação se torna mais do que deprimente; torna-se apavorante."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1.5/5 "Were there laughs to be had? Sure, but even a "Dorf on Golf" videotape has its moments."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 "Any hopes of it actually transforming into a dark and corrosive satire are pretty much dissipated in the first few minutes when we get inexplicable close-ups of our hero catching both a Hacky Sack and an entire barbecued fish between his butt cheeks."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "Sandler prefers to fall back on cartoonish stunt action, sleazy innuendo and bodily fluid gags. These things may satisfy his core fan-base, but everyone else will leave the cinema feeling a bit cheated."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C+ "Amid the silliness, the boorishness and the vulgarity is a certain warmness and sweetness."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C+ "Like too many comedies these days, the humor is based more on the concept than execution... and the scripting is lazy. But there is a weird mixed message behind the jokes."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 1.5/5 "You don't laugh with the Zohan, either."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 3.5/5 "Sandler's best in a long time"   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson "You can tsk-tsk Sandler's penchant for dumb, crass humor all you want, but there's some meaning behind his madness. Is there nothing more human, more humbling, than the idea of smelly feet?"   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 7/10 "A silky smooth, subversively silly political satire."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 5/10 "There are really only four jokes in the movie, and each of them goes from being pleasantly goofy to positively leaden as the film's needlessly protracted running time unspools."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 2/5 Read review   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 7/10 Read review   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo  (1 - 37) of 37 OFCS Rating: 35% Rotten Page   1