Go for Zucker
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings
- Starring: Hannelore Elsner, Henry Hübchen, Udo Samel
- Summary: 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)
- Director: Dani Levy
- Genre(s): Comedy
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Positive: 8 out of 15
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75Go for Zucker is far from a perfect film but it brings easy laughter and joy.
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70Writer-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.
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70Zucker!'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.
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60It's the rare German movie calling itself a comedy that is actually funny, even if only in bits and pieces.
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Alex8Somewhat better than the highly successful MEET THE FOCKERS and its more germane, equally successful sequel. And not much worse.
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BenK.8The film understands the faults of the characters and forgives them. A funny film. What else can you say about a comedy?
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ChaimL.7Funny movie especially for those of us who are committed Jews. The scenes on learning to seem observant are hysterical.
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JanisV.3
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