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Article: Film Review: You Don't Mess With The Zohan: Hairdressing and Hezbollah
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- Scotland on Sunday
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- August 10, 2008
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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 ...