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Go For Zucker
First Run Features
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Henry Hübchen,
Hannelore Elsner,
Udo Samel,
Golda Tencer,
Steffen Groth,
Anja Franke,
Sebastian Blomberg,
and
Elena Uhlig
From the producers of "Run Lola Run" and "Goodbye Lenin!" comes the German box office smash, Go for Zucker, a film about a comically dysfunctional Jewish family. (First Run Features)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Holger Franke
Dani Levy
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Dani Levy
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 19, 2006
Theatrical: January 20, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Germany |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
German (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Alles auf Zucker!"

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75
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
Go for Zucker is far from a perfect film but it brings easy laughter and joy.

70
The New Yorker
David Denby
Watching the antic inventions of Go for Zucker, I was moved by the thought that Jews have achieved a kind of Germanness again, and even more moved by the thought that Germans have achieved a kind of Jewishness again.

70
Variety
Derek Elley
Picture lets loose an experienced cast of vets on a well-honed script that has broad appeal.

70
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Zucker!'s a bona fide hit in Germany, where, apparently, there's been a shortage of Jewish comedies since, oh, 1939, give or take. But it deserves its imported rep; rare's the movie that has an Orthodox Jew tripping on Ecstasy while getting a massage from a Palestinian prostitute hours before his mamala's funeral.

70
LA Weekly
James C. Taylor
Writer-director Levy occasionally relies on cheap gags, but his light tone and breezy visual style are a nice contrast to Go for Zucker's metaphorical subtext about familial - and German - reunification.

70
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Zippy, well-played, Wilder-esque farce.

70
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Henry Hübchen is dynamic as the title character.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
It's not quite masterful enough to achieve all its goals, but Zucker is undeniably ambitious despite its relatively lowbrow and farcical approach.

60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
It's the rare German movie calling itself a comedy that is actually funny, even if only in bits and pieces.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Funny, director and co-writer Dani Levy suggests with no little coldness, how the scent of money can do what religion, ideology, and ethical principles cannot.

50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Mildly tasteless (natürlich), if not exactly uproarious.

50
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Go for Zucker was a smash back home, where it was hailed as the first German comedy about Jews since World War II. But it will take more than that to make American audiences laugh.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A tiresomely madcap story with extremely faint political (and politically incorrect) overtones.

50
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
It remains a diverting, mildly entertaining movie, far short of provoking the controversy (or hysterical laughter) it apparently prompted during its release in Germany.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Perhaps the humor has been lost in translation.


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