Rant & Raves

During the weekend, I went to watch You Don’t Mess with Zohan with a group of friends. It was one of the most anticipated movie from Adam Sandler but I left the cinema unsatisfied and wanting for more.

First of all, Zohan is a really funny movie. But after some of his best (so far) like 50 First Dates, Spanglish, The Longest Yard, Click, Reign Over Me, and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Zohan is a bit of a disappointment.

50 First Dates is just pure funny and yet romantic in a way. Spanglish (with the super yummy Paz Vega) is hilarious yet very meaningful, and Click, which has lots of meaning to it and it touched a lot of people’s heart and hilarious at the same time. Reign Over Me is not a comedy, I think, but it was one of the best Adamn Sandler’s performance that showcase how passing of a love one can affect a perfectly healthy person.

But Zohan is based on stupid-nonsense-erotic-cheap jokes where the director and the actors were playing cheap jokes on penises and boobs and vaginas. I mean, at the beginning it was damn funny, but towards the middle of the movie, I got tired of those cheap jokes and wonder where’s the usual depth in Sandler’s movies. Maybe, just maybe, I don’t get the issues about Palestine and Israel and the whole middle east, but I think I do know enough about their political situations that it wasn’t funny as Sandler portrayed it.

I am not going to go into details of the movie, as you can go to the various website or the official Zohan website (here) to get a glimpse of the movie or something because I don’t think I want to spend that time to write about something I didn’t really enjoy (well, to be fair and frank, I did enjoy the company of the friends very much).

Was it worth the RM10 for the movie admission?

There are two ways to look at it. If you are looking for the usual good stuff from Adam Sandler, then no, save that RM10 and buy back one of those older movies from Adam Sandler’s. But if you are bored and looking for cheap laugh, then yes, it will definitely worth that hard-earn RM10 of yours.