This obscene, ridiculous, and occasionally very funny movie, written by Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler, and Robert Smigel and directed by Dennis Dugan, is about a fabulous Israeli counterterrorism agent (Sandler) who has a bulging crotch and deadly hands (he karate-chops Palestinian machine guns into carrot sticks).

NEWYORKER: You Don't Mess With the Zohan

What he has forgotten, it turns out, explains everything that happens to him, and the explanations are so ridiculous that we feel like idiots for having believed in the movie as long as we did.

NEWYORKER: Control Yourself

As to a donation made by the movie-makers, he says: "That's not a bribe - ridiculous!"

CNN: POSTCARDS FROM THE BEACH