Slapstick comedy usually doesn’t go well with me, even if I do enjoy bits and pieces of the movie. And this was the baap of all slapstick comedies. Really it was!
I don’t know if they started out making this a superhero spoof movie and then mid-way decided to make it funny and towards the end wanted to send out a social message against terrorism and hatred. So there is this Isralei army man, Zohan, who has superstrength and invulnerablity and a Palestine supervillain, whose name I can not pronounce, much less spell.
Zohan eventually decides that he has had enough of war and absconds to America to pursue his dream of becoming a hair stylist. And while the slapstick tone was set in this part of the movie with a very visibly large dick, or bush as it turns out, Zohan, it’s in America where they really take it too heights never seen before, not even in the most insane of Govinda or Priyadarshan movies.
So Zohan styles hair, screws old ladies, woos his hot employer and manages to retain peace in a very volatile neighbourhood comprising of Arabs, Isralies, Palestinians and Mexicans under his alias of Scrappy Coco. Till he gets recognized which brings his old nemesis in the town to have a final showdown. And oh yeah, the real bad guy is a construction company which keeps trying to instigate riots in that volatile neighbourhood to vacate everyone so he can build a mall.
So the plot, I am sure you get it, is nothing to talk home about. The jokes are so explicitly sexual that they can not really be called sleazy. I mean, if they show Zohan screwing an old lady in front of the son and make jokes about it, is that sleazy? Gross, maybe, but not sleazy. And if you can swallow that kind of humour, you’d enjoy the movie. So if you are looking for some cheap fun this movie suits the bill nicely. Well, cheap is hardly the word you’d use with the multiplex ticket rates these days! Wholesome entertainment... this movie left that out pretty much completely.