Well what else can you expect from a Adam Sandler film? Especially with a poster as wild as the split he had there! Hahaha! In the grand tradition of "Billy Madison", "Happy Gilmore" and "The Waterboy," Adam Sandler again comes up with a most outrageous title character.
Zohan is a top-notch Israeli special forces soldier which practically super-human powers. However, he is tired of that life, and he would want nothing more than to go to America and try his luck in....Hairstyling! That in capsule is the whole ridiculous plot, as stupid and hilarious as those various Mariah Carey baby t-shirts that he wears throughout the film.
And they manage to fill the 113 minute running time up with what seemed to be non-stop crude sexual jokes. It is also replete with very daring Jew, Palestinian and Arab jokes. OK, some jokes fall flat (one can only take too much crotch close-ups and ethnic double entendres!), but yes, in general they are funny. The first scenes of Zohan under cover on the beach is one long laugh-out-loud sequence. Also Zohan's exciting yet side-splitting fight scene with his nemesis, the Phantom (John Turturro).
As for acting, this was classic Adam Sandler all throughout. He has not lost his comic touch. Rob Schneider has a supporting role as an Arab (?) whose goat was stolen by Zohan. I never saw Rob look more Filipino than in this film (because of his make-up)! He actually looked a bit like Ronnie Lazaro here. LOL! There is also a very surprising cameo appearance of an unexpected celebrity somewhere in the film, though it was definitely not in the league of Bob Barker in "Happy Gilmore."
Overall though, it is brash and shallow fun (especially if you are not from the Middle East). Along the way among the jokes, there is that requisite positive message of world peace and unity somewhere there. I thought it was a good way to laugh away the stresses of the day. Just a mindless, careless and ultimately retarded diversion.
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