...attempts to ring humour from topical subjects like home-made bomb-making sit uneasily with Sandler’s obvious ambitions to political gravitas, with the gags drying up in favour of an climactic mix of sentiment and action...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 20, 2024

You Don't Mess With the Zohan is hysterical and gives Adam Sandler one of his finest comedic roles in a comedy that puts its own spin on the conflict and need for peace.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2023

America's favourite man-child returned to his routinely mediocre and mildly misogynist formula with this 2008 "comedy".

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2021

The laughs ring hollow and the slapstick violence seems in bad taste.

| Nov 15, 2020

Laugh out loud funny, endearing, richly human, and with a touch of political intelligence.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

The high-handed premise doesn't always work in Zohan but you have to admire the chutzpah in trying it.

| Aug 26, 2018

Nothing about You Don't Mess With the Zohan is profound or profoundly classic; it's both wildly uneven and intermittently entertaining, mostly because it wants to fuse lowbrow comedy with a satiric punch.

| Jan 2, 2018

It's perhaps not much of a schtick, but it's a cohesive schtick, with the sub-schticks of the entire cast well integrated in support and counterpoint.

| Jul 29, 2015

As a remedy for the Mideast's woes, American pluralism might be slightly impractical; but as a premise for a summer comedy, it's real enough to be funny

| Nov 4, 2013

| Original Score: B- | Apr 21, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

I know someone out there must like these things, because Sandler keeps getting the money to make what is turning out to be the same movie over and over again, but I must not be tuned into his comedy wavelength.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 28, 2010

Warts and all, Zohan adds to a beautiful vision

| Aug 26, 2009

...the latest in a long line of underwhelming Adam Sandler comedies...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2008

| Original Score: C- | Oct 18, 2008

You have to give Adam Sandler some credit: He is trying new things and working to expand his particular brand of juvenile comedy, albeit not always successfully.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

I cracked up during a lot of this movie.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

The ideas and some of the individual bits in Zohan work, but the crudeness of the execution undermines the results.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: B- | Oct 18, 2008