Adam Sandler decides to dub an Israeli accent for his new comedy, You Don't Mess With The Zohan. This gets into its preachy moments from time to time but overall is his funniest since 2004's 50 First Dates, and succeeds in not being offensive - instead being just plain funny.
Zohan is an Israeli counter-terrorist agent who hunts down his country's enemies and kills them swift and efficiently. But while he loves serving his country, he tires of all the violence and dreams of being a hair-designer. So when chasing a famous terrorist 'The Phantom', he fakes his own death and moves to New York City under the alias Scrappy Coco, and gets a job at a Palestinian hair salon. He loves his new job, but becomes famous locally and risks exposing his alias.
Yes it's a completely idiotic and unrealistic premise, but that's the beauty of the whole movie. Zohan is essentially a superhuman, and several hilarious scenes build off of it. But the weaknesses lie in the back plot.
A tacked-on romantic subplot that's forced and contrived bogs down the movie, and the end just makes it all too soft and melodramatic. But Adam Sandler does much more right than wrong here. B-
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