Article: Film Review: You Don't Mess With The Zohan: Hairdressing and Hezbollah

YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN (12A) ** Director: Dennis Dugan Running time: 113 minutes

THERE are two types of moviegoers: those who love Adam Sandler and those who would prefer a good bout of gastric flu. You Don't Mess With The Zohan offers bad taste for the willing but also an optimistic contribution to the war in the Middle East: if Jews and Arabs can get along in the multicultural melting pot of New York, they could eventually end their long-running, ongoing conflict.

Is Sandler suggesting that the solution to the Arab-Israeli problem is that everyone move out of their holy lands? Don't spend too long thinking about this because Don't Mess With The Zohan hasn't. Despite the veneer of ...

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