Iain Blair

Not surprised that You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, Adam Sandler’s new comedy, did great box office over the weekend. It really delivers – if you’re a 12-year-old boy with fairly unsophisticated tastes. But then Sandler has never paid much attention to critics, and has always done his own thing. This time, with a wacky script cowritten by Sandler, comedy guru Judd Apatow (whose fingerprints are on nearly every comedy out there these days) and Robert Smigel (“Saturday Night Live”), Zohan is directed by frequent Sandler collaborator Dennis Dugan (Happy Gilmore) and co-stars a large ensemble cast that includes John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Chris Rock, with cameos by the likes of Mariah Carey and John McEnroe.  The film opens in Tel Aviv and Sandler and Dugan actually went there to shoot, using an all-Israeli crew. “But some of the beach scenes were also shot in Mexico,” says Dugan. “In Israel there’s a very distinctive orange umbrella, so we shipped about 100 down to Mexico.” The resulting continuity’s perfect – you’d never know the difference.

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