You Don't Mess With The Zohan!

I laugh just saying the name of this movie. It was Hilarious!

I am a big Adam Sandler fan anyway but this film reminded me of his earlier movies. He went back to basics so to speak of using the formula that made Billy Madison, Happy Gillmore and The Waterboy such huge successes. I saw an interview with Sandler and he said that he wrote it with his buddies about 7 years ago, so that may be why it is more like the humor that we saw back then.

I will give you a little warning about this film and that is that it is VERY sexually oriented. I would say that 90% of the jokes and lines in this movie were related to SEX. If that stuff offends you then this movie probably isn't for you.

The Zohan is the most popular guy in his town, everything just falls into place for him. He is a Covert Israeli anti-terrorism specialist and no-one is better then he is at it. It starts out with the Zohan getting picked up for a mission while he's at the beach and he is told that he must capture his Nemesis the Phantom....Again!

He goes to the Phantoms stronghold to capture him but he is secretly wanting to escape the life of a super soldier and make everyone's hair Silky Smooth (A borrowed line from Billy Madison, as if you didn't already know that) so they can be happy. Well after many funny scenes including one of my favorites where the Zohan disassembles one of the bad guys machine guns just by moving his hands up and down he has a show down with the Phantom. Zohan eventually fakes his own death instantly immortalizing the Phantom among his people.

Zohan then heads to New York the work in the Paul Mitchell hair salon to finally fulfill his dream. He doesn't want to be recognized by anyone so he borrows the name Scrappy Coco from a couple of pouches he met on the plane ride to america.

Long story short he finally talks Rafaella into letting him cut hair at her Salon not knowing that she is really the Phantoms little sister. They start falling in love and Zohan has to help her and the other business owners in her neighborhood fight a greedy land developer (The guy that is famous for saying "Are you ready to rumble" at sporting events through out the USA) to save the day. He teams up with the Phantom and they kick some butt against the Developers hired Redneck Thugs led by Dave Mathews (without his band) and save the day.

All in All this is one of those movies that you are guaranteed to laugh out loud at.