重貼:凸務咔啦蘇I am crazy about this movie I tell you, although I am far away from the Middle East or USA ...but this movie is appealing to everyone in the world as long as they get a brief understanding about the Middle East politics and its tragic history.
It is absurd, it is hilarious, and yes, I do think the "make-love" scenes are overdone and the close-ups of men's reproductive organs (although covered by trousers) appear too frequently to nearly discredit the movie as bad-taste, you are so wrong if you think this is just another senseless comedy. Ridiculous or weird perhaps the Middle East people are in the movie, but they are pictured as a group of innocent people tired of endless hatred, struggling to live a simple, and not even affluent, life. They come to the America in pursue of their dreams, which end up to be no more than empty wishes…
Despite how poor they are materially and spiritually, and the lack of respect they gain from the local community, the place has offered those Middle East migrants a treasure they have no hope to find in their homelands: understanding between each other, mutual respect, living in peace, and in the end, joining hands to fight against a common enemy. The gossips about which US president's wives are sexier among the Israeli and Palestinian in the US are just fabulous to show that there are basic human desires beyond races and cultures; recognition and harmony are there as long as you open up the conversation.
Adam Scandler is awesome (note his accent!), but you have to applaud all the "foreign" actors. Finally, of course, we should also clap hands for the director who dared to film so many Middle East faces, to pick such a sensitive topic but assigned it a refreshing and entertaining theme.
Some critics blamed the movie as too much nonsense while others criticized it as not crazy and fun enough; well, it is always easy to pick faults. Yet, it takes coverage and talent to work out something creative and different. And this movie is even more
You have to experience the laughter and irony yourselves, if someone dared to bring the film to HK.