Zohan (Adam Sandler) is an ace counter-terrorist soldier in the Israeli military. He is tried of the fighting and fakes his own death to follow his dream of becoming a hair stylist in New York. First he doesn't find it easy and then he gets his chance. He finds love with a Palestinian woman Dalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui) who owns the hair salon. However, the landlord of the buildings in the are wants to run everyone out by any means to make way for his new mall and Zohan may not be able to escape his past if people recognize who he is.

YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN is an absurdly over-the-top comedy. The story isn't good, but the humor is what sells the film even when it's really bad that it's funny. Any good hair salon would have never hired Zohan or fired him for a small amount of things he does like banging clients in the back room after cutting their hair. Zohan is an over-sexed hair stylist. Women love him for it (read middle-aged women). The message of the film seems to be that you can go for your dreams and get together once you go to America and away from the middle east conflicts that have been going on for 2000 years. The film does make fun of the conflict. Famous hair stylist Paul Mitchell (and his salon) and singer Mariah Carey even make appearances. The film plays everything for laughs from characters doing the disco dance, the hackey sack with the cat scene, and featuring music from the 1990s. If you're a fan of stupid comedies or ones that don't have smart humor, YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN is one for you. Don't tax your brain too much and sit back to enjoy the absurd nature of the Zohan.

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