The Hebrew Hammer

Name: The Hebrew Hammer
Genre: Comedy
Released: December 19, 2003
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Adam Goldberg, Andy Dick, Judy Greer

2003

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Comedy Central | Release Date: December 19, 2003 | Unrated

Starring: Adam Goldberg, Andy Dick, Judy Greer

Summary: By creating The Hebrew Hammer, writer/director Kesselman has brought to life a character rarely seen in Hollywood or off-Hollywood films: a sexy and powerful Jewish action hero. (ContentFilm)

Director: Jonathan Kesselman

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 85 min

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Steven Rea

A wickedly funny, Naked Gun-style parody that conflates old-style private-eye pics with Shaft and, yes, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

You don't have to be Jewish to love Jonathan Kesselman's uneven, profane and occasionally flat-out hilarious parody of vintage blaxploitation pictures, but it helps. Read full review

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Writer/director John Kesselman serves up a stylin' live-action spoof that irreverently milks stereotypes and bravely pokes fun at that which is usually sacrosanct. Read full review

Robert Abele

But the corker-to-groaner ratio heavily favors the latter as the bagel-and-dreidel jokes begin to lose their spark, as does the story Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Ultimately more interested in exploiting clichés than subverting or commenting on them, and Coyote and Dunn's grotesque caricatures are embarrassing. Read full review

J. Hoberman

The result is explicit, if less than hilarious. The Hebrew Hammer lacks the edge of Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song," although as anti-seasonal fare, it would make a suitably unbearable double bill with Terry Zwigoff's "Bad Santa." Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

A crass, sophomoric and, more to the point, offensively unfunny parody that sets out to remake Shaft and his blaxploitation ilk as a Jewish action hero. Read full review

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