You Don't Mess With the Zohan

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You Don't Mess With the Zohan

PG-13

2008

1h 53m

Comedy

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Tired of all the fighting in his country, legendary Israeli commando Zohan fakes his own death and goes to New York, where he can fulfill his fondest dream: to become a hairstylist. Zohan's sexy way with a cut and curl makes him a hit with Manhattan's women, but when enemy Arabs spot him, Zohan has to call on his military skills if he is ever to wield scissors again.

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Critics Consensus

You Don't Mess With the Zohan features intermittent laughs, and will please Sandler diehards, but after awhile the leaky premise wears thin.

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

Oct 18, 2008

2/4

The ideas and some of the individual bits in Zohan work, but the crudeness of the execution undermines the results.

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

Aug 15, 2008

1/5

The worst thing about the film is not that but the constant, feeble sexual innuendos with which Sandler saddles himself.

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Anna Smith

Metro Newspaper (UK)

Aug 15, 2008

3/5

It helps that this is Sandler's least irritating comedy role: instead of being a whiny misfit, he's a local hero who becomes a fish out of water - Crocodile Dundee with a bouffant mullet.

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Eddie Harrison

The List

Feb 20, 2024

2/5

...attempts to ring humour from topical subjects like home-made bomb-making sit uneasily with Sandler’s obvious ambitions to political gravitas, with the gags drying up in favour of an climactic mix of sentiment and action...

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

Jun 6, 2023

4/5

You Don't Mess With the Zohan is hysterical and gives Adam Sandler one of his finest comedic roles in a comedy that puts its own spin on the conflict and need for peace.

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James Croot

The Post NZ

May 6, 2021

2/5

America's favourite man-child returned to his routinely mediocre and mildly misogynist formula with this 2008 "comedy".

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cohen M

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Joshua H

@JoshuaHawes Jul 13, 2026

This was really silly & over the top, but it did make me laugh a few times, while trying to have a good moral message within it. Yeah, I had a lot of fun, and I did enjoy myself; I just don't know if it was very good.

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Gabriel M.

@Anonymous12 Apr 21, 2026

My sister wanted me to see this film and I honestly found it boring.

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Yash B

@yashbansal Feb 19, 2026

"You Don't Mess with the Zohan" is an Adam Sandler comedy that feels like a time capsule due to its poor age. I feel like there is a lot of silly comedy in here, and I genuinely found a lot of it funny, even when I felt bad for laughing. The movie is a fun watch if you go in just for ridiculous comedy, but the story just really isn't very engaging. I think a lot of the humor does get a bit repetitive, and it is longer than it needed to be. Overall, it is a movie with some fun to be had, but on a technical level, the movie isn't really good either, which I'm sure could be said for several Adam Sandler comedies.

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Christian P

@XtraChrispy Jan 6, 2026

I´m normally a fan of lowbrow PG-13 comedies. One of my all-time favorite films, for example, is The Waterboy, always good for a reliable laugh. Heck, I even enjoyed The Ringer, which tells you my standards for these kinds of films are pretty low. However, You Don´t Mess With The Zohan is just too bad to ask anyone else to sit through it. I tried, I really tried. A buddy of mine and I set it up in the home theater and gave it our best shot, but we had to end the misery. There is crude sexual humor, and then there are gross sexual attempts at humor. This is the second catergory. It´s just uncomfortable, constant, and so foul that it makes you dislike the main character for being a part of it. Trust me, it takes a lot for me to dislike an Adam Sandler character! This movie accomplishes it. Don´t ruin your impression of goofy Sandler films with this mess. Trust me.

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Andrew S

@Malasita Oct 27, 2025

One of Sandlers post 90s best comedies.

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Synopsis

Tired of all the fighting in his country, legendary Israeli commando Zohan fakes his own death and goes to New York, where he can fulfill his fondest dream: to become a hairstylist. Zohan's sexy way with a cut and curl makes him a hit with Manhattan's women, but when enemy Arabs spot him, Zohan has to call on his military skills if he is ever to wield scissors again.

Director: Dennis Dugan
Producer: Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo
Screenwriter: Judd Apatow, Robert Smigel, Adam Sandler
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Happy Madison Productions, Relativity Media, Columbia Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Crude and Sexual Content|Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 6, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $100.0M
Runtime: 1h 53m

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