Zohan Dvir works as a Special Agent and lives with his orthodox parents in Israel. He wants to give up this life full of dangerous encounters with Palestinians. While in the process of apprehending a Palestinian activist known simply as the Phantom, he fakes his death, hides in a dog-kennel on a plane bound for New York, and decides to try his hand as a hair-stylist. He is refused employment initially, but when he offers to work for free, Dahlia hires him as a cleaner. When a hair-stylist named Debbie quits, Zohan replaces her, winning over elderly female clientèle, and falling in love with Dahlia herself. Before Zohan could propose to her, Dahlia's landlord, Walbridge, who has been raising rents regularly, hires skinhead goons to terrorize the neighborhood, creates misunderstandings between Jews, Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians, and drives them out, so as to enable him to construct a new building which is topped by a roller coaster. When Zohan decides to confront these skinheads, he...
4 January 1980, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
18 March 1967, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
24 December 1985, Tel Aviv, Israel
January 3, 1986 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Armenia]
8 January 1940, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
18 November 1953, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
8 January 1945, Hillsdale, New Jersey, USA
26 July 1922, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
5 September 1946, Wheaton, Illinois, USA
28 November 1954, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
26 June 1940, New York City, New York, USA
31 October 1963, San Francisco, California, USA
July 29, 2015
It's perhaps not much of a schtick, but it's a cohesive schtick, with the sub-schticks of the entire cast well integrated in support and counterpoint.July 18, 2008
Zohan is both exponentially stranger than Larry and about twice as amusing.June 16, 2008
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.October 18, 2008
The ideas and some of the individual bits in Zohan work, but the crudeness of the execution undermines the results.June 16, 2008
I'm all for politically incorrect humor, but there has to be humor in the political incorrectness, and I didn't get it here.July 06, 2010
The idea that the unholy trinity of Sandler, regular cohort Rob Schneider, and director Dennis Dugan could re-unite after ...Chuck and Larry begs the question: just how much did these guys sell their souls to get another film green lit?October 24, 2008
...the latest in a long line of underwhelming Adam Sandler comedies...December 28, 2010
I know someone out there must like these things, because Sandler keeps getting the money to make what is turning out to be the same movie over and over again, but I must not be tuned into his comedy wavelength.November 04, 2013
As a remedy for the Mideast's woes, American pluralism might be slightly impractical; but as a premise for a summer comedy, it's real enough to be funnyAugust 15, 2008
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.June 09, 2008
Director Dennis Dugan knows his way around shin-whacking slapstick, and Sandler is mesmerizing.