Jun 16 2008 'Incredible Hulk' Made Money Last Weekend
1. The Incredible Hulk - Looks like the Hulk wasn't the only thing that was big and green this weekend, and I'm not talking envy! Greenbacks! American dollars! Cinema theatre profits to the tune of $54.5 million! Sorry, Kermit, looks like it is easy being green! (You should read this as if you're an announcer from the '20s.)
2. Kung Fu Panda - The formula of celebrity vocal chords + anodyne, computer-generated comedy continues to prove itself, earning another $34.3 million
3. The Happening - More like the Not Happening! Assuming we consider "happening" to be making more money than other movies. ($30.5 million)
4. You Don't Mess with the Zohan - A 57% drop to $16.4 million as moviegoers decide to wait for the unrated Zohaniest edition, with new, never-before-heard accents.
5. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - $13.5 million, but it turns out all the ticket buyers were aliens!
Jun 9 2008 'Kung Fu Panda' Messes with 'Zohan', Thus Winning Box Office
1. Kung Fu Panda - That this is both making a lot of money and getting pretty decent reviews confuses and angers me. ($60 million.)
2. You Don't Mess with the Zohan - The second-place, $40 million gross could have been much higher had Zohan opened last week, before Sandler's remaining fan base graduated middle school.
3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - The addition of another $22.8 million brings Indiana Jones to a total gross of $253,026,000. So yeah, George Lucas will order the deluxe veggie burger.
4. Sex and the City - $21.3 million and untold gallons of estrogen.
5. The Strangers - $9.2 million, easily topping competing horror movies The Loose Acquaintances and Let's Get Out of Here: I Think I Met That Dude at a Party, But I Really Don't Want to Talk to Him Again.
May 1 2008 'You Don't Mess with the Zohan' Poster Speaks for Itself
Adam Sandler's Israeli-militant-hairdresser character obscenely spreads his legs, supporting himself across the invisible borders of a poster while inexplicably flying. Now you want to see it, right?
New Zohan poster [JoBlo]
Apr 25 2008 Need Another Reason to Not See 'You Don't Mess with the Zohan'?
How about this new trailer? It's one thing to offend Israelis and anyone with a sense of humor, but to bring Technotronic's 1989 hit "Pump Up the Jam" as a backing track to this disaster? Now you're messing with Ya Kid K. Not cool, Zohan. Not cool.
It is here.
Mar 27 2008 New, Groin-Centric 'You Don't Mess with the Zohan' Trailer
After the last dodgy accent-filled trailer, I wasn't sure it was possible to make the Borat the Hairdresser comedy of You Don't Mess with the Zohan any less desirable. They'd already revealed longtime Sandler tagalong Rob Schneider plays a part; how do you make it worse from there? Oh, right, gyrating. Shot after shot of comic gyrating. I always forget about gyrating.
See the new trailer under the jump--but note that it's a rough cut, so the final gyration content could vary.
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Dec 20 2007 AM Poster Post: 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan' Bursts with Comedy
Sometimes a movie is so engorged with raw comedy that it transcends its own wallpaper-style poster, bursting through it with hilarious props, the gut-bustingly funny yet critical, uneven eyebrows of The Rock, and Adam Sandler. So much hilarity simply can't be held within the thickness of a sheet of glossy paper, and Sandler dares you to stare down the glowing, strangely-cordless barrel of comedy. Will you dare? Warning: daring will cost you around $11, and provides about the same level of fulfillment as a saltine.
Dec 13 2007 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan', Especially if This Trailer is the Result
This trailer to You Don't Mess With the Zohan is everything you'd hope for from an Adam Sandler movie-meets-Borat-meets-hairstyling. Hilarious, mildly offensive accents galore, increasingly ludicrous antics, the requisite mildly-retarded Rob Schneider character--it's got everything you hated from Waterboy and more! It's also probably what a Bollywood adaption of Shampoo would resemble, only with more random dance numbers.
Apparently, the largest consequence of messing with the Zohan is another terrible, sentence-titled comedy from the director of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
