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Article: JEW-LANDER; Zany "Zohan" puts a whole new accent on what we expect from Adam Sandler.(VITA.MN)(Movie review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 5, 2008
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Byline: COLIN COVERT; STAFF WRITER
There's a spirit of avant-garde goofiness to the new Adam Sandler movie that sets it apart from his usual sophomoric work. Sprung from the fertile comic imaginations of Robert Smigel ("Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog") and Judd Apatow (the grand vizier of film comedy), it exists in a slap-happy parallel universe. In "You Don't Mess With the Zohan," Israeli commandos dream of styling mousse and blow driers, hummus is a dip served with eyeglasses, and Mariah Carey asks terrorists to explain Bluetooth technology.
Zohan is a top Israeli counterspy who bops down the boulevard like Borat imitating a disco-era Travolta snapping Chuck Norris ...
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June 5, 2008 ;
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...REVIEW You Dont Mess with the Zohan HH Rated PG-13 (crude and sexual...Directed by Dennis Dugan Starring Adam Sandler, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Rob...imaginable, "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" is really rather conventional...Romeo and Juliet," wrapped in Adam Sandler's trademark ...
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