Zohan (Adam Sandler) is an Israeli counter-terrorist tired of fighting. He decides to fake his own death to pursue his dream of becoming a hairstylist in New York City. As he struggles to make his dream come true, a Palestinian with a grudge recognizes him. He’s forced to take his old life head on in order to live in peace.

This is one of the first Adam Sandler movies in a while that is silly like past hit, BILLY MADISON, but it goes so far into the ridiculous that it’s just not that funny. The storyline starts off strong incorporating the silly with genuinely funny writing and acting, but it all starts to unravel when he gets to New York. A solid 90% of the jokes are about Zohan’s penis and his numerous sexual liaisons with ridiculously old women. Maybe my sense of humor is not refined enough to enjoy seeing a 60-year-old woman’s sagging ass, or to enjoy shampoo bottles falling from the walls of the salon as Zohan pleasures an 80-year-old grandmother.

While the jokes were less than thrilling most of the time, there were surprisingly good moments commenting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The “political” discussion about which U.S. president or presidential candidate had the most bangable wife warmed my cold, icy heart (side note, apparently Word doesn’t recognize “bangable” in its dictionary). Despite the random plot twists, the script kept the pace up enough to hold my interest.

There won’t be any awards for the acting, but the number of random actors involved is impressive. Dave Matthews actually makes an appearance as a racist-for-hire and sports a mullet for the roll. Rob Schneider is of course in this movie, but Nick Swardson, John Turturro, Kevin Nealon, Mariah Carey, Henry Winkler and Chris Rock join him. It was a veritable reunion of Sandler alums with a few washed up singers thrown in.

Video: 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen

Audio: 5.1 Dolby Digital in English and French

Commentary with Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel, Rob Schneider and Nick Swardson: This commentary feels like you’re hanging out with all four guys as they make fun of each other and comment on the ridiculousness of their own movie. If you’re going to listen to a commentary, this is the one worth listening to.

Commentary with Director Dennis Dugan: This is the typical director commentary of where they shot each scene, who did which special effect and all of that. Luckily, Dugan is funnier than a lot of directors so the commentary is less dry than most. If you’re only going to listen to one commentary on this film, go with the first one.

Featurettes: This special is 26 minutes long, and he explains all the cameos as people that came to visit him on the set. Most of the featurette includes extended scenes and behind the scenes looks at all of the cameos with some added intros by Sandler and Dugan. There’s also a special look at Dugan and all of his witty moments behind the scenes. The part about how the stunts were done and why was particularly interesting and cool.

Deleted Scenes: The deleted scenes are mostly more of the same with snippets of new stuff.

Previews are also included.

This is a definite rent don’t buy situation. It has it’s funny moments, but you really have to rent it to see how many bizarre cameos you can point out while dodging looking at naked old ladies and Adam Sandler.