The Hebrew Hammer: Critic Reviews

Would have worked brilliantly as a five-minute late-night comedy sketch.

Desperation is the project's principal quality.

The result is explicit, if less than hilarious.

The movie hits as much as it misses, with enough witty observations to ensure that somewhere, Kesselman's mother is kvelling.

An insubstantial but highly entertaining flick.

Kesselman keeps the movie crackling with the raucous energy absent since Mel Brooks' heyday.

Kesselman's thin script generally is funniest when it's riffing on Jewish stereotypes and goyish bigotry.

A hit-and-miss affair.

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.

A crass, sophomoric and, more to the point, offensively unfunny parody.

Unfunny rather than outrageous as intended.

Corny and crude at times, but effective in its single-minded pursuit of laughs.

[E]nds up veering from ridiculous but pointed commentary into abusing and insulting those [the film] intends to champion...

Everybody needs a little burlesque fun with his digital reprogramming, and the politically incorrect good times barely let up in this story.

A scattershot assortment of jokes that is funniest when it sticks to its neat premise.

The movie starts out hilarious but like The Hammer's Jewish mother, it starts to nag at you after awhile.

plays like a lower (much, much lower) budgeted, Jewish version of Malcolm Lee's funnier Undercover Brother

Uneven, profane and occasionally flat-out hilarious.

Doesn't quite nail it, but it's not as bad as it sounds, either.

The corker-to-groaner ratio heavily favors the latter as the bagel-and-dreidel jokes begin to lose their spark, as does the story.

You may not always laugh at it. But you can't help indulging its junior-high jitters.

Even a gentile can appreciate the witty wordplay and visual puns flying off the screen at a mile a minute.

One of the biggest joys here is the conversion of Adam Goldberg from 'colorful backup' to 'comic action hero', and while The Hebrew Hammer may not vault the actor into leading man status, he easily carries the entire movie.