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Somewhere In the Top Ten Dumbest Things I Love…

Sep 24th, 2008
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...Adam Sandler movies. I get why people hate him, I guess, I just can't. I also loved old Jerry Lewis movies when I was a kid. I've liked the movies his production company makes with the inner circle of his acting stable, too - Grandma's Boy and Strange Wilderness. And on that note...I really love the clump of actors who are always in his movies - Allen Covert, Peter Dante, Blake Clark, Rob Schneider, lately Nick Swardson - and the shifting and ever-widening group of actors with their own careers who work with him over and over, at this point including Kevin Nealon, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro and most bizarre and recent: Dave Matthews. (Who actually turns out to be pretty funny, I am a little sorry to admit.) And then there are the hundred other people from SNL and whatnot who pop up all over the place.

So I saw You Don't Mess with the Zohan this weekend, which dragged a little at points mostly in the middle (the "Adam Sandler movies with no Adam Sandler in them" I mentioned earlier don't have this problem, I've noticed), but is mostly just fucking hilarious. Whatever the trailers told me about the gist of the movie, I wasn't prepared for a Popeye movie, which it kind of is. Sandler's Zohan is Israeli Popeye, Turturro's Phantom is Palestinian Bluto, they have ridiculous superhero battles and the real-world conflict setting up the movie seems to boil down to a feud between these two cartoony titans.

Sort of Popeye, anyway: Zohan is Popeye crossed with Inspector Clouseau, with a penchant for fucking older ladies - like platoons of older ladies. This is, BTW, the raunchiest Adam Sandler movie ever, and if you or your mom will not appreciate jokes about Charlotte Rae getting banged hard and giving blow jobs, you should probably stay away, but you probably knew that.

Anyway, worth watching, even if Buscemi doesn't show up in this one.

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  • st_rev

    You are dead to me.

  • st_rev

    You are dead to me.

  • I LOVE The Wedding Singer. Little Nicky and Big Daddy were kinda funny too. But my big fat gay secret is that I absolutely love the movie The Hot Chick with Schneider. I think it is hilarious. There are scenes that I absolutely believe that he is a girl in a man's body. He really downplays a lot of it so that it never gets too ridiculous. Everyone tells me I am completely moronic for liking it though.

  • vee_ecks

    I liked that one, too, although otherwise, I don't much like Schneider's movies.

  • yeah, I don't like the rest of them.

  • I LOVE The Wedding Singer. Little Nicky and Big Daddy were kinda funny too. But my big fat gay secret is that I absolutely love the movie The Hot Chick with Schneider. I think it is hilarious. There are scenes that I absolutely believe that he is a girl in a man's body. He really downplays a lot of it so that it never gets too ridiculous. Everyone tells me I am completely moronic for liking it though.

  • vee_ecks

    I liked that one, too, although otherwise, I don't much like Schneider's movies.

  • yeah, I don't like the rest of them.

  • My mom wanted us to go see that. Thank god we didn't. I thought it'd just be bad for me to be drooling over the idea of a hot Israeli operative. I wasn't sure if the trailers were blowing that aspect out of proportion or if we should really stay away.


    Pretty sure I haven't requested this from the library. That needs to be fixed.

  • vee_ecks

    Sandler's doing his usual fish out of water thing - in Israel, Zohan is the stud of all studs, but Israel is backward and they think disco and Mariah Carey are the coolest things in the world, and when he gets to the US, he's a rube and a throwback.


    It shouldn't be any kind of spoiler to say that regarding real issues, the message of the movie, ultimately, is "Can't we all get along? Yes, in America, we can!" Which is much easier to ignore than it might otherwise be, simply because the movie is so surreal, almost, in its visual and comic excess. I wasn't exaggerating when I called this a Popeye movie - Zohan is as much a comics superhero as Spidey or Batman.

  • My mom wanted us to go see that. Thank god we didn't. I thought it'd just be bad for me to be drooling over the idea of a hot Israeli operative. I wasn't sure if the trailers were blowing that aspect out of proportion or if we should really stay away.


    Pretty sure I haven't requested this from the library. That needs to be fixed.

  • vee_ecks

    Sandler's doing his usual fish out of water thing - in Israel, Zohan is the stud of all studs, but Israel is backward and they think disco and Mariah Carey are the coolest things in the world, and when he gets to the US, he's a rube and a throwback.


    It shouldn't be any kind of spoiler to say that regarding real issues, the message of the movie, ultimately, is "Can't we all get along? Yes, in America, we can!" Which is much easier to ignore than it might otherwise be, simply because the movie is so surreal, almost, in its visual and comic excess. I wasn't exaggerating when I called this a Popeye movie - Zohan is as much a comics superhero as Spidey or Batman.

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