dam Sandler's latest over-the-top comedy, is so stuffed with gags, cameos, gross-out humor and movie parodies that it's as if the filmmakers crammed everything they could think of into the blender. In fact, the screenplay, co-written by Sandler, Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow (before Apatow became hot), was quietly shelved after 9/11, then was revived under a different name, only to be shelved again. And here it is.

Sandler stars as the titular Zohan, an Israeli anti-terrorist operative, Zohan -more of a Mossad superagent, really. In fact, as learn in the opening scenes, he's almost an Israeli superhero, able to catch speeding bullets with his nostril, disable teams of men by himself and play hacky sack with his butt (with which he can also cook fish(don't ask)). He can make balloon animals out of the rocks hurled at him by Palestinians.

He can make balloon animals out of the rocks hurled at him by Palestinians.

But, he has tired of the fighting and wants to move to New York and make the world "silky smooth." So, in order to pursue his dream of becoming a hair stylist in NYC, Zohan fakes his own death while on a mission to capture a Palestinian terrorist nicknamed the Phantom (John Turturro).

Landing in New York, Zohan struggles to find work. Disappointed in his dream of working at Paul Mitchell's salon down the drain, he finally gets his chance from a Palestinian salon owner ("Entourage's" Emmanuelle Chriqui), who operates the salon in an ethnic neighborhood where Israeli electronics stores make the neighbourhood.

At first, the swaggering aspiring stylist is reduced to sweeping up hair for no pay. But once Dalia gives him a chance to cut hair, he proves to be quite talented — and quite popular, which is a boon to her struggling salon. His customers are older women who enjoy the attention he lavishes on them. Some of the attention is paid in a back room after their hair is done.