Let's see here: He plays a former agent of Mossad, Israel's secret service, who moves to New York and gets a job in a Palestinian-American woman's hair salon. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? The picture has been a big hit in Israel.'

But what do I say about it? Where do I begin? Director Dennis Dugan has taken the most sensitive of today's racial/ethnic adversity and turned it into an Adam Sandler movie. Adam Sandler and Robert Smigel co-wrote this film, and it is not surprising - anyone familiar with the US comedy show Saturday Night Live will know that it moves just like one of their comedy skits that lasts for one hundred and twelve minutes rather than the usual five. Adam Sandler (of Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and Click fame) has come out with this new film guaranteed to either have you rolling on the floor laughing (which would be good) or your face in your hands crying (which would be bad). As Camilli mentions, Sandler plays a retired agent of Mossad, and carries the pressure of the Middle East on his shoulders throughout his life, including his closet passion for cutting and styling hair. Zohan Dvir even keeps an outdated copy of Paul Mitchell's hairstyles under the furniture in his apartment and, as a bonus to faking his death in some fancy water-fight footwork in a conflict with The Phantom (John Turturro), he resurfaces in New York and goes straight into the pursuance of his dream - to be a hair stylist with Paul Mitchell. And not be ridiculed by people around him.

Along the way he meets Dalia (Canadian-born Emmanuelle Chriqui) who owns a hair salon. The only bad thing is she's Palestinian and therefore it just wouldn't be fate for her to end up with a man from Israel. Meanwhile the attraction is there, and the endless references to sex during his eventual career as a hair stylist - I will never look at shampooing the same ever again - and I won't spoil it but I will say: this is an Adam Sandler movie.

In its own right this film contains all the major components to the traditional American romantic comedy, without the romance. Trying to make something that isn't funny funny and then add meaning to it is something that few people are brave enough to dare to do. But in my point of view, they do a good job.

And Rob Schneider plays Salim, the infuriated and bad-done-by Palestinian cab driver.

The familiar face of the leader of the White-is-Right-Trash group is Dave Matthews, who puts in an unexpectedly effortless performance, only adding excitement to this racially-mixed and racially-defined clash of powers.

And so, if Mamma Mia! is sold out, why not go for this one? It is after all slightly intelligentand if you're an Adam Sandler fan this will be a riot for you. But hopefully not the wrong kind of riot.