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Lokar

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Okay, it's kooky, but it's got some laughs!

An Orthodox Jewish superhero has to help keep Santa Claus from wiping Hanukkah off the map forever. The jokes are corny, but you'll find yourself laughing quite a bit. This holiday isn't in...
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Okay, it's kooky, but it's got some laughs!

An Orthodox Jewish superhero has to help keep Santa Claus from wiping Hanukkah off the map forever. The jokes are corny, but you'll find yourself laughing quite a bit. This holiday isn't in a lot of movies, so it's nice to see one about it. The hero's secret supervisor bugs him about protecting the whole "future of the Jewish people." Some of the jokes are classics right out of the best Mel Brooks movies. Others are new to this story. In any event, in its oddball way, this movie is a lot of fun.

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Posted dec 9, 2007 10:48 am pt

MichaelMargetis

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Funny, but ridiculous. Adam Goldberg is hysterical, so is Andy D*ck as Santa. Grade: C+

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Posted jun 30, 2007 3:03 pm pt

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Funny, but ridiculous. Adam Goldberg is hysterical, so is Andy D*ck as Santa. Grade: C+

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Posted jun 30, 2007 3:02 pm pt

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Funny, but ridiculous. Adam Goldberg is hysterical, so is Andy D*ck as Santa. Grade: C+

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Posted jun 30, 2007 3:02 pm pt

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Funny, but ridiculous. Adam Goldberg is hysterical, so is Andy D*ck as Santa. Grade: C+

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Posted jun 30, 2007 3:02 pm pt

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Funny, but ridiculous. Adam Goldberg is hysterical, so is Andy Dick as Santa. Grade: C+

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Posted jun 30, 2007 3:02 pm pt

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Funny, but ridiculous. Adam Goldberg is hysterical, so is Andy Dick as Santa. Grade: C+

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Posted jun 30, 2007 3:02 pm pt

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Funny, but ridiculous. Adam Goldberg is hysterical, so is Andy Dick as Santa. Grade: C+

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Posted jun 30, 2007 3:02 pm pt

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There are funny parts in this attempt at comedy, but chatting with friends would probably get you more laughs. Andy Dick has never bee funny, but sometimes it's funny to see him fail to get a laugh. This is the only DVD in my collection that I...
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There are funny parts in this attempt at comedy, but chatting with friends would probably get you more laughs. Andy Dick has never bee funny, but sometimes it's funny to see him fail to get a laugh. This is the only DVD in my collection that I haven't listened to the comentary on, and it's also the only DVD I wish I didn't buy. Sad, since it was also the cheapest DVD I've bought.

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Posted jan 26, 2007 5:31 am pt

• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  75
  A wickedly funny, Naked Gun-style parody that conflates old-style private-eye pics with Shaft and, yes, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  60
  You don't have to be Jewish to love Jonathan Kesselman's uneven, profane and occasionally flat-out hilarious parody of vintage blaxploitation pictures, but it helps.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  60
  Writer/director John Kesselman serves up a stylin' live-action spoof that irreverently milks stereotypes and bravely pokes fun at that which is usually sacrosanct.

  by Staff (Not credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  Although amusing as often as not, the material remains more comedy-sketch fodder than a fully developed feature.

  by David Rooney | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  50
  A hit-and-miss affair.

  by Megan Lehmann | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  50
  This circumcised "Shaft" plays half-awesome, half-aw-shit; it exists almost as if to prove you can cram every Jewish joke in the Old Testament into a single movie.

  by Robert Wilonsky | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  40
  Ultimately more interested in exploiting clichés than subverting or commenting on them, and Coyote and Dunn's grotesque caricatures are embarrassing.

  by Nathan Rabin | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  40
  The result is explicit, if less than hilarious. The Hebrew Hammer lacks the edge of Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song," although as anti-seasonal fare, it would make a suitably unbearable double bill with Terry Zwigoff's "Bad Santa."

  by J. Hoberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  40
  But the corker-to-groaner ratio heavily favors the latter as the bagel-and-dreidel jokes begin to lose their spark, as does the story

  by Robert Abele | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  40
  Would have worked brilliantly as a five-minute late-night comedy sketch, flogs its premise for nearly an hour and a half, generating too few laughs to justify the enterprise.

  by Dana Stevens | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  30
  Unfunny rather than outrageous as intended.

  by Kevin Thomas | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  30
  Desperation is the project's principal quality, characterizing everything from the misfiring jokes to the surprisingly distinguished cast.

  by Mark Jenkins | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  20
  A crass, sophomoric and, more to the point, offensively unfunny parody that sets out to remake Shaft and his blaxploitation ilk as a Jewish action hero.

  by Michael Rechtshaffen | Read Full Review »