An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- to make his dreams come true.
Director Dennis Dugan knows his way around shin-whacking slapstick, and Sandler is mesmerizing.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
9 Jun 2008
rotten:
This moviegoer has no trouble with lowbrow comedy. The problem with Zohan, however, is that it's like a kid who tells you a silly joke, gets a laugh, and immediately tells the same joke again.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
16 Jun 2008
fresh:
Zohan is both exponentially stranger than Larry and about twice as amusing.
– Amy Biancolli,
Houston Chronicle,
18 Jul 2008
rotten:
Another sloppily concocted and naggingly non-controversial pretext for Sandler to pelvic thrust his way though a succession of increasingly wacky fish-out-of-water situations.
– David Jenkins,
Time Out,
15 Aug 2008
rotten:
The ideas and some of the individual bits in Zohan work, but the crudeness of the execution undermines the results.