Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Hang_All_Drunkdrivers Back in the 70s there was a genre called blacksploitation best exemplified by the classic "Shaft" about a super-cool black detective. Those movies were semi-serious but this show about a cool Jewish detective is played strictly for laughs and it delivers. Adam Goldberg plays Mordechai Carver who tries to be cool but sometimes just can't help but lose it. His stereotyped Jewish mother played by Nora Dunn esp drives him ballistic with her whining about how she wishes he was a lawyer and by her disgusting habits like changing the cat's diaper at the dinner table!! She is a scream.The plot centers on madman Damian Claus who murders his father Santa and then sets out to destroy Hannukah. He's played by Andy Dick who does a great job as the evil sadistic villain. May not sound funny but he is.My only complaint with the movie is with the grossness of some of the humor. You got people spitting on each other and then you see this green stuff running down their faces. If it wasn't for that i'd give this a ten. Of course if you're 12 or a republican you'll prolly think that's the best part . Still it's a great show and they even do a take-off on the super-famous music from Shaft. "He's a complicated man and no one understands him but his mother."

tedg I admit a weakness for these types of self-conscious parodies when done well.For me, that means a mix of riches. First, it has to be brutal. There's no sense in toying with something stupid and at time showing sympathy for that stupidity. All the better if the targets of the thing have some sort of societal proscription.MASH was funny (when it was) because it treated war like something completely without honor or value. Anything that Mel Brooks does fails the brutality test. He's merely juvenile, and not ashamed to shift perspectives for a giggle.This is funny because it destroys two boundaries. The most obvious is the Jewish stereotype. Yes, it exists. Yes, like any other group, they identify themselves, quite actively bending their lives, by drifting toward those very characteristics as a matter of definition.There's a long tradition of stage humor where Jews make fun of themselves and I assert that all these societal parodies spring from it, at least in the US.But the other bit is ever so clever. What they've built on is a pastiche of blaxploitation movies (and a few others as well). Part of the cleverness is in revealing these things to be even dumber than we readily admit; they take us to extremes we wouldn't otherwise go. Its a bit risky, that.So we have a triple layer here: Jews making fun of the kind of Jewishness they cling to. All of us making fun of a similar dynamic in blacks that black culture isn't mature enough to disparage. (Though half of Chris Rock's stuff comes close.) And on top of that we get some posturing, not much, but some that rigorously belittles us for being the moviewatchers we are. In recent memory the second Charlies Angels did it best, but there wasn't the delicious edge this has.Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.

jillandpaul1970 I had heard some people mention this movie and that it was on comedy central, but I didn't know much about it before I came across it at blockbuster. This was by far, one of the funniest movies I've seen in a really long time. My husband and I we're in tears from it, and have been quoting lines all week. The movie reminds me of something like Blazing Saddles crossed with Naked Gun and Shaft, but is more very clever and sly in how it tells a lot of the jokes. Adam Goldberg (the guy from Dazed and Confused "I just want to dance!" is the Hebrew Hammer - a Jewish Superfly/Batman kind of character who takes on an evil bi-Sexual Santa Clause. This description isn't even doing it justice. The movie is very creative and original, and you have no idea what's coming next. I was surprised something this good didn't get more notice, and I guess it was probably because it was a comedy central movie. But oh my god, if you like smart, un-PC comedies that don't let up, RENT THIS MOVIE! It's one of the funniest things you'll see. After we took it back, we bought a copy for our DVD collection - it's that good.

shumiluvr This movie reminded me of "UnderCover Brother". Sure, this movie was rather tasteless and obviously a low budget film. It was very funny. I myself am Jewish and was able to laugh and relate to this movie. I do not know if you would enjoy it if you were of another religion, but I still recommend this movie. There were many hidden references and of course some basic Yiddish humor packaged in. It easily could have been a modern Mel Brooks movie, and if you enjoy his humor i recommend this film. Although some jokes became repetitive, and were overdone, there are many MANY funny jokes that I could laugh about.This is one of those movies you should see multiple times. I guarantee you will catch more jokes and references making each viewing funny. So overall it was a cheap lo budget comedy. But a Funny cheap low budget comedy. A rare find indeed.