The ideas and some of the individual bits in Zohan work, but the crudeness of the execution undermines the results.

The worst thing about the film is not that but the constant, feeble sexual innuendos with which Sandler saddles himself.

It helps that this is Sandler's least irritating comedy role: instead of being a whiny misfit, he's a local hero who becomes a fish out of water - Crocodile Dundee with a bouffant mullet.

...attempts to ring humour from topical subjects like home-made bomb-making sit uneasily with Sandler’s obvious ambitions to political gravitas, with the gags drying up in favour of an climactic mix of sentiment and action...