Right around when Adam Sandler’s hair goes from ‘fro to flaming in the latest trailer for his summer hairdresser bomb-edy You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, I started to cringe as if locked inside a salon/prison. When the sight of Sandler quietly handling guns makes you wax nostalgic for his flop Bulletproof for its entire duration, something is wrong. The parts here with the great Shelley Berman do the trick, but then I started remembering what funny is and funny is Mr. Berman on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Lastly, is there really room in this mixed-up world for Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno (2008) and Sandler’s Zohan?
Will jocks show up for two loud comedies with blow dryers as laff accessories? Will you? I feel like I have hairspray in my mouth after watching this, like when I hear C.C. Music Factory at the dentist’s office.
Click here to watch the new trailer, or just pour a glass of red wine on your carpet.
Adam Sandler’s You Don’t Mess with the Zohan brings the trendy fierce! to theaters on June 6th, 2008.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Not as funny as the first tailer. It’s good to see Sandler doing stupid/senseless comedy again though. After his success with all of the comedies “with heart” his flicks kinda went downhill…although I’m sure some of you will massively disagree. Give me Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore over Click and Big Daddy any day. Why do I feel as though this comment is about to get me pummeled? (insert sound of a thousand fists)
March 27th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
@ Eddie
No, I like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. However, I don’t get the comparisons of those flicks to Zohan.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I should have poured the red wine.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Well…. I guess we should be lucky Steven Brill didn’t direct it… cuz instead of being just merely crap it would have turned into pure shit.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Wow, this has “waste of time” written all over it. And to think
I used to really like Adam Sandler movies, he just keeps
putting out lame crap. What happened to the days of
Happy Gilmore. Now that shit is funny as hell.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Zohan looks like total crap. Didn’t Night at the Roxbury and Zoolander teach hollywood anything about this crapola. Obviously not.
On Bruno, not my favorite character of SBC’s. But if Cohen does this documentary style, and maybe visits the bible belt and goofs on the hillbilly’s maybe it has a shot. If he goes the Ali G route and tries to give Bruno a story, it’s gonna suck like a…well you get the idea.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
this doesn’t look like the final trailer (initials and columbia picture letters in a shot). Leaked somehow? They sure got their work cut out for them if they’re trying to improve this trailer before whatever deadline Columbia gave!
March 27th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
@ Hunter
Just in the sense that it appears to have no focus on human emotion. That said I haven’t seen it yet and even though it seems like it could just be silly humor it may be mediocre like say Little Nicky. Oh crap, I brought up the Brill-gate again.
March 27th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Finally, a movie that will stop the insanity, of the idea that anything centered on jews or israel is automatically or inherently funny.
March 27th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
i think this movie has potential, i mean with sandler, apatow, and robert smigel…looks promising. so dont hate too soon, give it a chance
March 27th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
You can’t fault Adam Sandler for putting out derivative comedies. They sell and it shows from the box-office receipts. Sure they’ve diminished over the years but they’ve still made a good mint.
Perhaps Sandler should do something to appease his older fans. Like a sequel to “Waterboy”?
By the way was “Bulletproof” really a box-office dud? It was an enjoyable flick though. Perhaps I should re-watch it and see how it stands up.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
the first thing i thought of was that it looks like they spent a lot of money on this, while happy gilmore was made for 10 only mil. they need to take the big budgets away from these guys and send em back to their roots, when comedy was the most important thing. sandler, ferral, eddie murphy, i know im forgetting some others - but they could all use a flashback to what they use to be like - what made us crown them the funniest guys alive. we want to like their movies, but sadly know they’re gonna be just terrible. i really can’t believe sandler read that zohan script and said, ‘yes, thats funnny & i wanna dump millions into it.’ sweet fucking christ what happened to him?
March 27th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
@ alcaTsar
Bulletproof is not a good R-rated buddy action comedy (re: Damon Wayans), but it’s worth a watch when you’re nodding off and a little drunk. Personally, I just like it because I like to see Sandler switch it up and wear something besides man-shorts while he shrugs 100 times. And yeah, it flopped, $21 milly.
@ orange cinema
Yeah man, that’s what happens when you get married. ;) I wish Sandler would just make a PG-13 movie where he’s the stoner manager of a putt-putt course. Budget: $5 million. The only person who can save Eddie Murphy is Quentin Tarantino (who turned 45 today), and he could rock a raunchy comedy with Sandler as well. As for other comedians, Steve Martin needs to stop kicking Peter Sellers in the balls to millions of families’ enjoyment.
March 28th, 2008 at 9:35 am
give me this over Indiana Lucas any day.