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10/18/08
Hebrew Hammer (2003)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:12
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.1/10
Synopsis: THE HEBREW HAMMER is a holiday movie that is most definitely not for kids. Adam Goldberg stars as Mordechai Jefferson Carver, also known as the Hebrew Hammer, a private detective who has an... [More]
Starring: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick, Sean Whalen
Director: Jonathan Kesselman
Reviews for Hebrew Hammer
Top CriticCorny and crude at times, but effective in its single-minded pursuit of laughs.
02/09/05
[E]nds up veering from ridiculous but pointed commentary into abusing and insulting those [the film] intends to champion...
12/21/04
Profane, shockingly un-PC and often laugh-out-loud hilarious, this is the sort of parody that the folks who made the Airplane and Naked Gun movies used to make -- funny.
04/29/04
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04/17/04
Everybody needs a little burlesque fun with his digital reprogramming, and the politically incorrect good times barely let up in this story.
04/09/04
A scattershot assortment of jokes that is funniest when it sticks to its neat premise.
04/08/04
Kesselman keeps the movie crackling with the raucous energy absent since Mel Brooks' heyday.
04/08/04
Desperation is the project's principal quality.
01/30/04
Top CriticThe movie starts out hilarious but like The Hammer's Jewish mother, it starts to nag at you after awhile.
01/09/04
The movie hits as much as it misses, with enough witty observations to ensure that somewhere, Kesselman's mother is kvelling.
01/02/04
Kesselman's thin script generally is funniest when it's riffing on Jewish stereotypes and goyish bigotry.
12/23/03
Top CriticAn insubstantial but highly entertaining flick.
12/20/03
A crass, sophomoric and, more to the point, offensively unfunny parody.
12/19/03
Doesn't quite nail it, but it's not as bad as it sounds, either.
12/19/03
Uneven, profane and occasionally flat-out hilarious.
12/19/03
A hit-and-miss affair.
12/19/03
plays like a lower (much, much lower) budgeted, Jewish version of Malcolm Lee’s funnier Undercover Brother
12/19/03
Would have worked brilliantly as a five-minute late-night comedy sketch.
12/18/03
Top CriticUnfunny rather than outrageous as intended.
12/18/03
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