You Don't Mess with the Zohan

You Don’t Mess with the Zohan is a comedy film which story is written by Adam Sandler himself with Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow and directed by Dennis Dugan.
A story of an Israeli, Zohan Dvir, whom considered as a greatest hero and counter-terrorism army commando but has grown tired of his service in Israel Defense Force and wanted to pursue his dream of becoming a hairdresser in New York.
The movie begins with Zohan (Adam Sandler), a Mossad agent, was on a vacation at Tel Aviv beach. He attracts several women and captures every beach-goers attention with his Hacky Sack.
He cooks fish in the nude using a dip or spread Hummus which is a popular local food in the Middle East for his friend and several women. But as he finishes cooking, an Israeli Defense Forces Helicopter arrived and took him away from his presumed well-earned vacation.
Zohan expressed his displeasure about having his vacation cut short during his subsequent briefing. But he eventually agrees to do yet another mission after he was being heckled by his officer.
His mission is to recapture a key Palestinian terrorist, the “Phantom” (John Turturro), who had been freed by Israeli government as prisoner exchange for a captured Mossad agent, and additional ‘to-be-named later’ spy.
Zohan expresses his desire to leave Israel and go to New York and become a hairdresser but was met with laughter by his parents who both had fought in Israel’s Six-Day War.
During his pursuit of the Phantom, disgruntled Zohan fake his own death, tricked Phantom of believing he had killed Zohan.
Zohan then smuggled himself into a flight to New York City in a pet crate of two dogs named Scrappy and Coco. He change his hairstyle into a 1980’s Paul Mitchell’s Avalon style and take “Scrappy Coco” as his new alias, then sets out to pursue his dreams in the Big Apple.
He was initially unsuccessful to be hired at an upscale Paul Mitchell salon as well as an African American salon and a children salon. But using his military expertise he earn new friend who give him a place to stay, Michael (Nick Swardson).
However, Zohan’s sexual relationship with Michaels’s mother, Gail (Lainie Kazan) that makes Michael feels uncomfortable. His passion for 1970’s disco runs him into a fellow Israeli name Uri (Ido Mosseri who is a Zohan fan but agrees to keep scrappy Coco’s true identity a secret.
It was Uri introduces him to a block in lower Manhattan filled with Middle Eastern Americans, who are split between a Palestinian side and an Israeli side of the street.
In a struggling salon of a Palestinian woman named Dhalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui), Zohan attempts to land a job. At first she only allows the ostentatious Zohan to sweep floors for free.
But after he pleases a senior lady with a satisfactory haircut and back room sexual service, she eventually allows Zohan to be a stylist.
Zohan’s reputation of giving a good haircut besides the sex instantly spread among the elder women of lower Manhattan. It enables Dahlia’s business to boom that upset Walbridge (Michael Buffer0 who was a corporate magnet and has been trying to force out all the local tenants on the block so that he can build a huge mall.
Zohan brags that he has a big one, which is understood as big penis, but he meant of the pubic hair to his colleague claude (Alec Mapa).
A cab driver named Salim (Rob scheider), whose goat Zohan had stolen after he throw his shoes at Zohan and spit in his face, eventually had identified Zohan. Salim wanted to exact a revenge on Zohan and convince his friends to help him.
He wants the glory of Killing Zohan for himself and rebuffs his friend’s advice to “let the professionals” take care of it. They then decide to create a bomb even they are not sure how to do it. Salim and his friends then walk into a pharmacy after thinking that they need a chemical and tried to ask for a liquid nitroglycerin. The pharmacists instead give them Neosporin after hearings Salim’s mispronunciations.
But Neosporin did not destroy Zohan’s workplace so Salim reluctantly informs Phantom through a Hezbollah hotline. Phantom then pays a visit to New York to hunt Zohan down. Phantom is now a successful fastfood chain owner.
Meanwhile, Zohan discovers that he has unexplainable erectile disfunction except in Dhalia’s presents making him realized that he has fallen in love with her. He revealed to Dhalia his former job as an Israeli counter terrorist operative who however rejected his feelings.
Upon deciding to leave Dhalia, he confronted Phantom for a Hacky Sack Game. But the fight was cut short with sudden news that racist arsonists dressed in Arabic clothing attacked the Middle Eastern block.
Walbridge hired the arsonist to instigate an inter-ethnic riot between Palestinians and Israelis and will hopefully allow him to take over their stores more easily.
Dhalia appears revealing that she is Phantom’s sister whom he called “Fattoush” as Phantom and Zohan work together to save the block.
Zohan’s personal dossier allows him to discover the true identities of the arsonist as rednecks hired by Walbridge.
Leading the united Israelis and Palestinians of the block to save their shops, Zohan and Phantom defeated the rednecks, thwarting Walbridge's plans, and the damaging of the all the shops on the block by using "The Sound" which is a combination of stereotypical Arabic rhythmic calling and stereotypical Hebrew "chhhh" sounds. Walbridge was arrested for his crimes by the police who came in the place.
The Palestinians and Israelis become united and transformed the block into a collectively-own mall. It enables to realize Zohan’s and Dhalia’s dream opening a joint beauty parlor they called “Dalohan”. Phantom also fulfills his lifelong passion of opening up a shoe store.
The movie ends happily as Zohan’s parents approve of his Palestinian wife and their salon becoming their customers themselves in a surprise visit.