Comments on: New Movie Trailer for Adam Sandler’s You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. Still Not Funny.

By: Butch Newton

Butch Newton — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:35:36 +0000

give me this over Indiana Lucas any day.

By: Hunter Stephenson

Hunter Stephenson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:40:11 +0000

@ 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.

By: orange cinema

orange cinema — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:27:09 +0000

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?

By: alcaTsar

alcaTsar — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:19:18 +0000

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.

By: optimistic

optimistic — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:39:11 +0000

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

By: notfunny

notfunny — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:53:49 +0000

Finally, a movie that will stop the insanity, of the idea that anything centered on jews or israel is automatically or inherently funny.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:15:37 +0000

@ 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.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:45:50 +0000

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!

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:24:04 +0000

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.

By: A.J.

A.J. — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:52:50 +0000

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.

By: jonny

jonny — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:44:50 +0000

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.

By: Dan Berdusco

Dan Berdusco — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:39:35 +0000

I should have poured the red wine.

By: Hunter Stephenson

Hunter Stephenson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:25:21 +0000

@ Eddie

No, I like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. However, I don’t get the comparisons of those flicks to Zohan.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:16:35 +0000

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)