| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"The movie's villains aren't the Israelis or the Palestinians. They're the rednecks and white-collar titans desperately colluding to defame and displace outsiders." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"I found myself enjoying it a surprising amount of the time, even though I was thoroughly ashamed of myself." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Matt Pais |
"Recommended for the drunken college guy in all of us." more... |
B- |
E! Online
Alex Markerson |
"...unwieldy, frequently appalling ..." more... |
D |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"Forget Monty Python, You Don't Mess With the Zohan is a circus that never really flies." more... |
C+ |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
"Things that amused most of us in elementary school continue to entertain the 41-year-old Sandler today." more... |
D+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden |
"A genial, hit-and-miss return to the ridiculous for Adam Sandler." more... |
C+ |
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen |
"...frustratingly uneven..." more... |
C |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"Directed with sledgehammer subtlety..." more... |
C |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
"...a lot of the crude bodily-function jokes are actually pretty funny..." more... |
C+ |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...feels like an extended collection of skits tied together by a flimsy umbrella story." more... |
C |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"By the end of the film, the cliché of everybody getting along is reduced to both sides working together in the ultimate monument to capitalism: a mall. Some message." more... |
C |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"Another lousy Sandler movie." more... |
D |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker |
"Like too many comedies these days, the humor is based more on the concept than execution..." more... |
C+ |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...funny, but a bit of a mess." more... |
B- |
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