‘You Don’t Mess with the Zohan’ Download and Reviews

December 28, 2009 by Paul Wall  
Filed under Action, Comedy, Drama

“You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” Movie Details

You Don’t Mess with the Zohan tagline: Lather. Rinse. Save the world.
You Don't Mess with the Zohan - DVD Cover

You Don't Mess with the Zohan DVD Cover

Actors:
Ian Fisher
Herzl Tobey Commander aka Yaron
Danny A. Abeckaser Ze’ev
Omid Abtahi Shihab
Aesop Aquarian Rabbi
Sayed Badreya Hamdi
Mike Batayeh Fry cook
Tim Bearden Pants Store Owner
Robert Benny Autograph seeker #1
Shelley Berman
John Duerler Electronic Store customer
Ido Ezra Hassan
John Farley Tom
Eric Feliciano Israeli Fan
Les Gardonyi Pedestrian
Directors: Dennis Dugan
IMDB Rating: 5.7/10 out of 47,915 votes

“You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” Movie Review

“You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” Plot Summary

An Israeli Special Forces Soldier fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist. add synopsis

To this movie makers thank you.

To comment on this movie, there are two main sides: First one would be Adam Sandler, I have always liked his movies, for the light kind of comedy he presents, you watch and you laugh but you don’t expect to come out of the movie with a deeper message or something remotely philosophic to think about, I find that when Adam Sandler tries to go deep, his movies become quite depressing and nonsensical, ‘Click’ quickly comes to mind

The thing about the Zohan, is that I laughed a lot in some parts, but I find his affairs with the older ladies to be a bit repetitive and leaning towards downright BORING. Also the crude language and the oh-too-much ‘crotch’ view makes it quite impossible to let your kids watch the movie, which is a pity, because I find the hilarious fight scenes and the Zohan’s ’supernatural’ cool stunts would have been fun for kids to watch

Second point of view would be from an Arab point of view; I started watching this movie, preparing myself to get offended, and mind you I am a very broad minded person … However, I was pleasantly surprised, for the first time in my life I see a movie that does not picture Arabs as animal-like, heartless, brainless killing machines. They are just people, trying to make a living, even the avenging one has a reason, the Zohan stole his goat

Watching this movie, I tried to forget that I am an Arab, and I see that it is portraying – in a very silly and somehow inaccurate way – two opposing sides, and suggesting that they stop fighting, get over their differences to see that they are in fact similar

The movie makers get my personal ‘thank you’ for that, it is no different than watching a movie about the conflict between ‘black’ and ‘white’ people after the civil war, or about Americans and Japanese directly after WWII, there is no prejudices against Arabs here

For the very first time, someone has discovered that Arabs are human beings too. So THANK YOU.

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‘Tropic Thunder’ Download and Reviews

September 26, 2009 by Paul Wall  
Filed under Action, Adventure, Comedy

“Tropic Thunder” Movie Details

Tropic Thunder tagline: The movie they think they’re making… isn’t a movie anymore.
Tropic Thunder - DVD Cover

Tropic Thunder DVD Cover

Actors:
Ben Stiller Speedman
Jack Black Jeff ‘Fats’ Portnoy
Robert Downey Jr. Kirk Lazarus
Brandon T. Jackson Alpa Chino
Jay Baruchel Kevin Sandusky
Danny R. McBride Cody
Steve Coogan Damien
Bill Hader Rob Slolom
Nick Nolte
Brandon Soo Hoo Tran
Reggie Lee Byong
Jason Collett Academy Award audience member
Tom Cruise
Eric Feliciano
Tri Le Cyclo Driver
Directors: Ben Stiller
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 out of 95,405 votes

“Tropic Thunder” Movie Review

“Tropic Thunder” Plot Summary

Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

The next level

This is a brilliant piece of work. A comedy/parody that actually emulates at the level of its source material. Ben Stiller has clearly done his homework and here recreates many epic battle scenes. The photography is stunning and the direction is nothing less than awesome, for the first twenty minutes or so. Although the movie loses direction a little in the second and third acts it has enough great script and sheer momentum that it never falls below excellent. This really is a stunning piece of work. Look at what else is out there. This is constantly funny but also technically brilliant and very artistic. There are no ‘longeurs’ and every scene moves the action forward. The performances are spectacularly good. Tom cruise still looks slightly too ‘Tom Cruise’ but his lines are almost perfect. As a whole his part is 1000 times better than in that defecant Magnolia. Robert Downey Jr is almost embarrassingly good. He plays Bill Cosby playing an actor in a movie, but then he slips into a stereotype of all ‘our favorite’ Black actors. He is challenged by the one real Black guy and this scene serves to show that he is an actor, playing an Australian actor who is trying to play a Black American. Ther are too many other outstanding features to mention, such as the child general and Jack Black’s best work in years. All in all, this is not a mainstream movie. It is Something Else.

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