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...DISTRACTING FACIAL HAIR: Zohan: Goatee Borat: Mustache Jesus: Goatee...
...Mess with the Zohan's premise is so vivid and promising - a legendary Israeli counter terrorist wants to give up violence and find his bliss as a hair stylist - that it entered funny movie legend land months in advance of its release. Ideas like that don't occur every day in Hollywood. Or every year for that matter...
...Cheerful" is the operative word here. The sheer good nature of all concerned disarms the movie's constant flirtations with bad taste. For example, The Zohan gets a job in a rundown beauty parlor and rises from sweeping up the floor to creating sweeping hair-dos - and incidentally to providing sexual services for its aging clientele. It's a variation on a gag that happily served Mel Brooks in The Producers, and as in that enterprise, the result is more innocent merriment than discomfort for the audience. But still...issues keep arising...
...titanic an issue. And it's a big narrative lurch, too, which maybe we shouldn't dwell upon. Much better to focus on the purely comedic, beginning with Sandler's performance. It offers hilarious satire on James Bondian heroics. And Zohan's manic desire to provide "silky smooth" hair dressing represents good comic value, too. There's always been a sweet disconnectedness to Sandler's screen character, and when it is married to his contrasting, obsessive quest for a peaceful, more or less conventional civilian life, as it is here, this slightly rickety movie bounces along very likeably...
12/13/07: The former owner of a Cambridge hair salon is convicted of raping a former Harvard undergraduate and sentenced to seven to 10 years in prison...