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After engaging Phantom in a fight, Zohan fakes his own death and subsequently smuggles himself to New York City. Phantom's supposed success in killing Zohan garners him much fame across the Arab world , leading him to open the "Phantom Muchentuchen" restaurant chain.
But once Zohan fakes his death and escapes to America rather than track down the Palestinian terrorist known as the Phantom (John Turturro, a reliable Every-ethnic), the comedy gets old just...
Jun 6, 2008 · You Don't Mess with the Zohan: Directed by Dennis Dugan. With Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson. An Israeli Special Forces Soldier fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist.
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- Action, Comedy
- Dennis Dugan
- 2008-06-06
- Brian Vanhooker
- Unsurprisingly, Critics Didn’t Love It. In a red-carpet interview, a reporter asked Smigel what Triumph the Insult Comic Dog thought of You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.
- ‘Zohan’ Fought ‘Kung-Fu Panda’ The movie was a hit in Israel but was banned in most Arab countries (it earned $204 million globally). In the U.S., it debuted in second place, after Kung-Fu Panda, and made it across the once-coveted $100 million mark.
- Speaking of Middle Eastern Food. Zohan led to an increase in the sale of baba ghanoush and other Middle Eastern culinary favorites — a la the just-mentioned hummus — were referenced throughout the film.
- Hummus: The Miracle Food. In addition to being eaten in the film, hummus is used as coffee creamer, toothpaste and to put out fires. Advertisement.
No one is harmed, but Zohan fakes his own death so that he can leave and head to the U.S. to pursue his dream. There's a traffic accident between a car driver and Michael on his bike, with that man taking Michael's bike and throwing it into a trashcan.
Jun 5, 2008 · If you were an Israeli spy, but would really rather be a hairstylist, what would you do? To pursue his secret dream, Agent Zohan (Adam Sandler) decides to fake his own death and head for New York City.
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Going up against his arch-enemy The Phantom (John Turturro), he fakes his own death, and finds his way to New York, where under a pseudonym Scrappy Coco, he exhibits the much stereotyped mannerisms that all male hairdressers have broken wrists.
