I came across this trailer today and said, “Self, that was pretty funny”.
Then I went to IMDB (the haven for movie buffs) to research it a bit and I saw this:
“Written by Adam Sandler AND Judd Apatow.”
The next thing I said was “Self, if Judd Apatow is involved in this, it possibly could be the best Adam Sandler movie ever.”
Self agreed with me and so here we are. The movie is called “You don’t mess with the Zohan” and the plot summary is stranger than anything you probably could come up with on your own, even if you had all day to think and sniffed plenty of glue the night before.
A Mossad agent fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist.
Yeah, Sandler plays almost a super-awesome military guy, like a Rambo, from a Middle Eastern country, who grows tired of wars and blood, so he goes to New York to cut hair. He gets there, cuts hair in a sexy way I guess (from the trailer, it’s sort of hard to tell), and suddenly lines form outside the salon he works in.
Of course, not everyone believes he’s dead and some enemies come looking for him, or so I gather.
The bottom line is this:
It’s Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow. I don’t even care if Sandler’s last movie was “Chuck and Larry”, one of the worst he’s ever made…if he’s doing a film with the guy who brought us “Superbad” and “Knocked Up” and “Freaks and Geeks“, bring it on!
Not to mention Apatow is also a part of another new movie coming out on December 21st called “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story“, which so far has 5 fresh ratings and 0 rotten on Rotten Tomatoes and also great reviews by Richard Roeper and whoever his guest was at the time.
He’s on a roll right now, and Sandler hooking up with him to do a new film was likely a genius move.
There are also going to be some cameos in this one, from Mariah Carey to Dave Matthews (who will be playing a “red neck terrorist“). And of course Rob Schneider, who’s been in like every Sandler movie EVER.
Can’t wait for this one. It hits theaters June 6th, 2008.
Fake death, hair and Mariah Carey… count me in!
Let’s just hope it’s better than Chuck and Larry, but Sandler is almost always good.
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The local Harkins here as a teaser poster up for this movie, but you can’t find it anywhere online.
On the Zohan website it says the movie was written by Robert Smigel (TV Funhouse and Triumph the Insult Dog) along with Sandler and Apatow.
Ah, thanks John. IMDB has Apatow and Sandler listed as the two main ones, but I guess there was a “more” link I didn’t click on to view.