Okay, I admit it. I really like a couple of Adam Sandler movies (Reign Over Me and Punch-Drunk Love are great, Anger Management and Little Nicky are good and even Click‘s okay) and I can live with others. Yes, most are in the no-brain-needed department [excluding the first two I mentioned], but I’m pretty good at turning it off, so that’s fine by me.
When deadra and me made our cinema plan this weekend, we both were kind of curious (although deadra never has seen a complete Sandler movie because she thought all of them awful [but she has never seen either Punch-Drunk Love or Reign Over Me]) and decided to watch You Don’t Mess With the Zohan.
So, we enter the theatre, sit down, put the safety belts on and turn off our electronic equipment and brains. And it started off okay, but pretty soon it was evident that it would not stay that way.
I’m not easily shocked or disgusted and I can go really big lengths overlooking demeaning behaviour, especially if I am in NO-BRAIN-mode. But this film just was so incredibly disgusting and offensive that my brain started itself a couple of times [Knowing that I wouldn’t survive this with a brain that was running, I choked it into oblivion again]. And I’m not talking offensive in the sense of antisemitic [because it wasn’t], I personally felt offended because somebody made this crap [and as a woman. And as someone, who knows gay people]. I seriously considered leaving the theatre (in the end, I didn’t, for two reasons – I always hoped it would miraculously transform in a better movie and I was jammed in the middle of the row in a pretty full theatre) and I have seen a lot of crap I never walked out of.
But the worst thing was that it wasn’t even funny. Yes, it had its moments [so very, very rare], but mostly I gasped and figuratively rubbed my eyes, not believing what I saw.
It also was noticeable in the rest of the audience. They laughed more than I did, yes, but in the end, it got less and less and less until there were moments you knew were supposed to be funny, but it stayed completely silent.
A woman sitting behind me summed it up pretty nicely afterwards: “Well, that was a catastrophe.”
I want bleach for my brain, please.
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I thought Zohan was okay. I wasnt all that disgusted. But it wasnt great either.
I don’t know… Not great somehow doesn’t cover it. I mean, I’m fine with dick jokes, but a movie should be made of more than that.
Oh well…
Lol…I just watched it on Saturday. Normally, this is the sort of movie that I would…well react to the same way you did, but oddly enough, I didn’t. Maybe because I had just(as in, left in the middle of the interval half an hour earlier) escaped “Singh is Kinng” (yes, that IS how u spell it, coz the numerologists said the normal spelling was “unlucky”), which is SOOO much worse.
I get being offended as a woman, but what’s the “gay people” bit for?
The “gay people” bit – there just seemed to be a general hostility and a reenforcement of already very strong stereotypes (guy wants to be a hairdresser – gay… etc.). Nothing I can really pinpoint it to.
But it probably is better than Singh is Kinng. I’ll give you that. :)
You know when I knew Zohan wasn’t going to be as funny as I expected? When he starts doing that fish trick with his butt…that’s when.
Tsk tsk…comedy it seems.
Oh, yes! That was EXACTLY the moment, when I lost all hope of really being entertained…
I will NOT remember the pain.
I will NOT remember the pain.
I will NOT remember the pain.
…
[*takes deep breaths*]
Yeah, just keep telling yourself. The pictures of that movie keep on haunting me.