In the movie Don't Mess With the Zohan, Sandler plays a very likable Israeli counter-terrorist. It opens as Zohan (Sandler) struts down the beach in his sleeveless shirt and cutoff jeans. He shakes his hips and sticks out his bulging crotch. The wind blows in Zohan's unruly hair as he poses for the women, plays Hacky Sack with the guys, and engages in tug of war with a bull. The images are zany and over-the-top, but they contain a quality that lets us know everybody is having fun.

Zohan's vacation gets interrupted by the Israeli army, who need the expert Mossad agent to capture his arch nemesis, a Palestinian terrorist who calls himself The Phantom (John Turturro). But Zohan is tired of always being the go to guy when it comes to thwarting Israel's enemies. He doesn't find counter-terrorism fulfilling any more and tells his mother and father (Dina Doronne and Shelley Berman) he wants to go to America to be a hair stylist, "to make the hair silky smooth." They laugh in his face.

During an uproarious action sequence, Zohan takes out an entire Palestinian compound by himself. The man is so good he can turn around in the blink of a frame and catch bullets with his teeth. He chases The Phantom into the ocean for a game of water ping pong with a live grenade, which gives Zohan the perfect opportunity to fake his own death. He sneaks on a flight to New York with two dogs named Scrappy and Coco and appropriately assumes the name "Scrappy Coco." Zohan's goal is to work for Paul Mitchell, but after he's turned away, he makes friends with Michael (Nick Swardson) and even better friends with Michael's mother (Lainie Kazan), with whom he "makes the sticky."

Unable to find a stylist job at more reputable salons, Zohan enters the Palestinian-Israeli district, where his friend Oori (Ido Mosseri) runs a "Going Out of Business" electronic store. He points Zohan to a Palestinian salon across the street, run by the ravishing Dalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui). To prove he is worthy of cutting hair, Zohan performs no-handed pushups and treats a chair like a pummel horse. Dalia makes him hair sweeper and Zohan doesn't let one piece drop on the floor. One of the movie's biggest laughs comes when Zohan gets his first string of customers, all of them old ladies, whom he sensualizes with the shampoo and a showerhead...and then later with other things in other places.

The underlying plot revolves around a business tycoon (Michael Buffer) wanting to tear down the Israeli-Palestinian community to put up a new mall. There's also the matter of Salim (Rob Schneider), a taxi driver who wants revenge against the Zohan for stealing his precious goat back in Israel. During an amusing scene, Salim calls the Hezbollah hotline, where the answering service says things like "For terrorist supplies, press 5."

This was a great movie. There was not one person in the theater that was not laughing through out the entire movie. Adam Sandler is a great actor in this movie. So watch Don't Mess with the Zohan; you will not be disappointed.

6

If you saw the first "HULK" forget about it, this movie is better made and it goes back to the basic story of the TV series. The acting is good and it describes a lot better who really Hulk is as it will also give you a better villain than the past movie. Don't miss the ending there is a little surprise there.

5

This is a great futuristic movie that I enjoyed. There are a lot of good things on it as the little robot shows more sensitivity than humans. This movie kids will love. It's fun for all of you if you leave your grown up ego at the door.

4

At first I had my doubts about this movie. I finally convinced myself to watch it and I was surprised. It was not the same type of romantic-comedy movie that we see every year, at least this one, had more surprises and different content to make it a fun movie.

3

This was a great movie. I love martial arts and laughing watching a movie. This movie delivered it. It has so many funny things and situations. It was almost impossible to resist his kicks and his wacky moves.

2

Iron Man has a punch to be an every guy's superhero, and the man every lady wants to meet. This is one of the best superheroe movies of all time. It delivers any request die-hard fans would have, so don't miss it.

1

I loved the idea of this movie. A different kind of superhero and there was no one better for the roll than Will Smith. Ladies and gentlemen he delivers, I would like to say more, but I don't want to spoil the fun.

Now, I guess you have to be a bit of a geek to truly love super heroes. I fall into that category and do so rather proudly. When I was a youngster, I fell in love with super heroes very early on. I blame the children's television show on PBS called “The Electric Company.” They had a segment on that show where Spider-man was featured.

This was not the Spider-man from the comic books. Well, OK, not to confuse things, but it was him, but the stories were not the same. He was not battling the Green Goblin who was busy throwing Peter Parker's girlfriend off of bridges and killing her. No, on the “Electric Company” this Spider-man would go up against an abominable snowman who was stealing ice cream cones. However, Spidey would inevitably be called in and would pin the villain against the wall with his webbing. This Spidey seemed to walk everywhere, without the customary swinging from the rooftops with his webs. When he shot his webs at the bad guys they made very cool sounds that I would imitate when I pretended to be Spider-man.

The thing was, it was live action and everyone in the skits would speak except for Spidey. When he spoke, word balloons would pop up over his head. This was to teach kids how to ready, you see, not to just provide them with a Spider-man interlude. So, I would say I started to learn how to read thanks to super heroes, so right there it's pretty cool to like them

To love super heroes you really have to have spent time as a geek or a nerd. I have friends who were crazily popular, and are still crazily popular, and they just don't seem to get the super hero thing either. For me, I love all of the movies and the television shows. I watch “Smallville” and I loved “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel” too. My friends cannot fathom how I can claim “Buffy” was one of the best written shows on television and keep a straight face. They just don't understand.

I was the kid who started to get fat when he was in the fourth grade. In fact, fourth grade was the time when the universe and fate decided to play most of its practical jokes on my life. Not only did I start gaining weight (for reasons never adequately explained, in my opinion) but I also started becoming near-sighted. So, yes, fourth grade was the first year I had to wear glasses. Yes, life and the universe was telling me, “buckle up for puberty kid, this is gonna be bumpy.”

I turned to comic books toward the end of junior high and then into high school. As you might imagine, as the word “teen” was added to the end of my age, things got worse for me. When you spend the entire day in seventh or eighth grade being punched repeatedly in the arm by kids bigger and stronger and with more knowledge of how to fight than you, you kind of wish you had some kind of super power to fight back. Only then can you appreciate how cool it would be to have claws, unbreakable claws no less, pop out of your hands. Only then can you appreciate how cool it would be to have superhuman strength so that a single push could send your attacker flying across the room. Imagine how cool it would be to get an angry look on your face, have your eyeballs turn greenish and then turn into a giant lumbering, impossibly strong Hulk! No one would mess with you then because no one would “like you when you were angry.”

So, it brings me back to those happier times that I spent between the pages of the comic books I loved now that they are all becoming movies. For a very long time Marvel was way behind in the comic book movie race. DC had Superman and then they started putting out the Batman movies. Finally, after years of financial issues and other wrangling, Marvel started putting out the movies. I have been there for almost all of them.

I even liked “Daredevil!” I still have it in my DVD collection. I was a huge fan of the comic book (if you can read Frank Miller's Elektra storyline and not feel something, you are clinically dead) and I was anxious about the movie. When I saw it, I thought they did a pretty damn good job. I feel that movie fell into some kind of anti-Ben Affleck vortex and that wasn't really fair for the movie.

I loved the first to “Spider-man” movies but agree the third did not work. I loved “Batman Begins” because I think it was done in a way that was different and even attempted to add some kind of shot of realism into a story that, really, when you stop to think about it, is pretty ridiculous. I don't know anyone who can dismiss that movie just because it was the fifth one in the last few decades as mentioned in the Entertainment Weekly article. Anyone who can see the preview of “The Dark Knight” and not get excited about seeing Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker is too dense for real human thought in my opinion. I think it looks like a career-making role and it makes his sudden death all the more sad. No more gay cowboys for this actor after this role. I can't wait.

They have made another Hulk movie. I have to admit, I kind of liked the first one, although I still don't really understand what happened at the end of that movie. This one looks like it's mostly action and the Hulk fighting the Abomination and, you have to admit, that does seem a bit cooler than the angst-ridden, heavily dramatic version Ang Lee (he of the gay cowboy movie mentioned above) came up with.

I loved the “Iron Man” movie and I was not a fan of the comic book character. Robert Downy Jr. was brilliant. The movie had me from the first frame and carried me right through. It made me more of a fan of Iron Man than I was when I collected comics.

I liked the last “Superman” movie. I enjoyed “The Punisher.” The only thing that doesn't work are the comic book comedies. “Mystery Men” and “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” and “Super Hero Movie” juts didn't work. We geeks take our comic book super heroes seriously. Therefore, I am not predicting great things for the Will Smith super hero comedy “Hancock” due out later this year.

For me, these are the characters I loved as a kid. These are the movies I dreamed about back then. These are the movies I have been wanting. You can keep your “Armageddons” and your “Independence Days.” Give me some dude hanging on the side of a building battling some other goofy guy in a costume.

So let's start with the movies we all know are coming:

Blending seamlessly from Batman Begins, although Rachael Dawes appears to have had plastic surgery changing from actress Katie Holmes to Maggie Gyllenhaal; The Dark Knight welcomes the return of Batman's most popular villain The Joker. Sadly the movie will have its own dark cloud in the knowledge that this was the last completed movie of Heath Ledger, who was reportedly disturbed by making the movie. But this cloud is surely only going to solidify the movie at the box office with fans coming to see Ledger at what could be his finest. Christian Bale reprises his role as Bruce Wayne AKA Batman, and fellow actors Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman also return. This could be the biggest movie of the year; it's certainly been one of the longest promoted.

Hard to believe but it's been nearly 10 years since Fox Mulder and Dana Scully finally closed the X-files, but as we learned with Indiana Jones, Rocky, and Rambo it's never too late to return. Shrouded in secrecy X-Files: I Want To Believe reunites Mulder and Scully when Mulder uncovers something sinister, will getting Scully to leave her hospital job be a big struggle? We'll see soon enough. Billy Connelly is apparently the movies villain, with the terror starting in the snow covered wilderness.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars, although an animated movie is said to have the essence of the original three movies. In this tale we follow the adventures of Mace Windu and Annakin Skywalker in a story that takes place between Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith. Samuel L. Jackson, and Anthony Daniels are aboard adding vocals to the animated characters.

Although they have been in the same movies, getting Roabert De Niro and Al Pacino to be in the same scene has been a stumbling block. Director Jon Avnet has managed it though and delivers a sharp and compelling cop thriller entitled Righteous Kill. Police officers Turk and Rooster are near the end of their serving days and have grown more and more discontent with the crime in the country and their work, but when a serial killer strikes it causes them to question what is right and wrong.
The Love Guru sees the return of Mike Myers to physical acting rather than just adding vocals, as Pitka he returns to the US after being bought up by Guru's. On returning he sets himself a mission to restore love to the world starting by focusing on a professional Ice Hockey player who's life and romance is on the downturn. Jessica Simpson, Justin Timberlake, Jessica Alba and Kanye West also star.

November brings The Quantum Of Solace to our screens, the 22nd James Bond movie with Daniel Craig reprising his role as 007. Unlike previous Bond stories this one picks up literally where Casino Royale left of as a direct sequel. Bond finds that wealthy businessman Dominic Green is organising a deal where he will gain control of all the world's most precious resources turning the Earth into a prison planet.

Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince sees now not so young Harry begin his sixth year at Hogwarts, following on from the previous movie Harry is about to uncover something that will change the world for he and his friends forever.

Now here are some of the movies you might not know about:-

Set in 1976 Bottle Shock is the true story about a world wine contest with a surprising entrant a Californian winery, believing it to be a joke Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) a wine aficionado is sent to California to investigate but his findings shock the world. Bottle Shock is a serious intelligent movie that has been given a comedic tint, apparently. This could well be the Sideways style runaway hit of 2008, also stars Bill Pullman and Elizu Dushku.

Fernando Meirelles the director behind City Of God and The Constant Gardner brings us a very different movie in which the residents of a City awake one day blind, without explanation why; why some have been spared its very much a case of follow my leader in order to survive. This is one of the movies I am really looking forward to. The movie stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, and Danny Glover.

The big movie this Christmas will be David Fincher's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, a story that follows a man on his journey from the end of his life to the beginning. This might not sound anything unusual but this is not told in flashback, Benjamin Button actually grows younger as the movie progresses. Starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett the movie looks magnificent from clipsseen so far, and could be a real epic.

Slapstick comedy gets a makeover several times as the autumn closes in first up My Best Friends Girl in which loser Dustin (Jason Biggs) hires the most offensive man he can find, Tank (Dane Cook) to help win over the heart of his girlfriend Alexis (Kate Hudson). This might sound like familiar territory but I'm informed there is something very different about this comedy offering.

Always a pleasure to see Anna Farris stars in The House Bunny, in which an ex playboy bunny heads off to university to act as house mother in a fraternity house filled with nerdy young women. The movie pokes fun at all the things that annoy those over 30 about the younger generation.

Man of the moment Shia LeBeouf appears in yet another massive budget blockbuster movie, in Eagle Eye his character Jerry finds himself a target of terrorists, or so it seems, not to become a victim but to become the perpetrator of a terrorist incident. Told for much of the movie in real time Eagle Eye is said to be the best thriller of its type for years and looks absolutely stunning.

City Of Ember looks like an interesting movie, after the fall of humanity the survivors move underground to start a new civilization. But after several centuries allowing the population to increase everything in the underground city is falling apart and the generators are failing, it's a rush for survival to make it from the city to the surface before everything is destroyed, but maybe the biggest danger yet is what is above the surface. Looking like a combination of City Of Lost Children, Beetlejuice, and The Poseidon Adventure; City Of Ember looks like a fantastic fantasy movie. With a great cast including Bill Murry, Tim Robbins, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau, and Heathcote Williams.

Taking a step back and returning to the roots that made Will Ferrell successful his next movie finds him starring alongside John C. Reilly as two men joined by the marriage of their parents. Stepbrothers finds two men connected by fate trouble being both are still incredibly immature, and hate each other with a passion.

Based on the bestselling novel Twilight tells the story of Isabella Swan (Kristen Stewart) a young girl who falls madly in love with a vampire.

Not for me I have to say but The Mummy series spits out yet another offering in Tomb Of The Emporor Dragon, most of the cast return with the exception of Rachael Weiz. This time our explorers find themselves battling creatures an army of martial arts trained soldiers.

Horror is on its way too first up is Midnight Meat Train in which a homicidal maniac played by Vinnie Jones stalks people on the underground tube system, Alias' Bradley Cooper is all that stands in his way, in this movie penned by the master of horror Clive Barker.

Tropic Thunder is a movie about a movie, and how a bunch of actors filming a war movie themselves walk into a real life war. Expect to hear a lot of good and bad things about Robert Downey Jr, who blacks up to play an African American actor. Jack Black and Adam Sandler also star.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona isa movie that has been shrouded in controversy but director Woody Allen is no stranger to controversy and this movie set in Spain is destined to be his most controversial movie yet. There is allegedly explicit sex between Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall and Oscar winning Javier Bardem, in this story about two friends who become besotted with the same man.

Henry Poole Is Here pokes fun at religion as Luke Wilson who plays Henry Poole discovers a strange stain on the side of his house, while all he wants to do is treat it others believe it to be the image of the Virgin Mary. But as people claim to be cured by the image is it just a stain or something else?

Nicholas Cage finds himself a hit man in a strange land in Bangkok Dangerous, a remake of a Pang Brothers movie, our hitman here finds that he must wrestle with his conscious after his target turns out to be someone he never expected it to be.

The Coen Brothers return to their comedy roots with Burn After Reading , astory about two men who find a disc that just happens to contain the diary of a CIA agent and all of his work, the Coen brothers poke fun at the lapses of security across the world as we hear weekly of similar stories. The movie stars Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Frances McDormand.

Quite familiar territory nowadays but Whiteout follows 30 Days Of Night and Insomnia in a story set in a snow ridden location where they battle the elements as well as the light. Kate Beckinsale stars as a woman hunting a vicious killer. More exciting however is the return of Tom Skerritt to big budget movie making.

Taking a nod and a wink from Arlington Road, Lakeview Terrace finds a mixed race couple played by Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington as they move to their dream home. Sadly their neighbour is a man with strict moral values who does not like mixed race couples or the public showing of affections. As he launches a hate campaign against them the couple have little choice but to call in the police, tragically however one of the leading local police is the same neighbour carrying out the campaign of mental and physical violence against them also stars Samuel L. Jackson as the neighbour from hell.

Earlier this year the Spanish movie Rec. Obliterated George Romero's Diary Of The Dead at the box office focusing on a deadly virus in a city apartment block. Quarantine is the US remake starring Jennifer Carpenter.

One of the last movies of the year is Frank Miller's The Spirit, following a similar passage to Sin City. A young cop killed in action returns from the dead to fight the forces of evil that hide in the shadows of Central City. Battling against a master villain known as The Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) this movie is reported to be the best superhero style movie of the year. Also stars Scarlett Johansson and Gabriel Macht.

So that's it my brief look at some of the movies for the rest of 2008, i'm sure you'll agree the best is yet to come.