I wasn’t quite sure what would be worse, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan or The Love Guru.

I suppose when you go in with low expectations, it helps, but I didn’t think that either of these movies were completely awful.

YDMWTZ follows Adam Sandler’s former Israeli spy in his quest to cut hair in the United States and leave the Israeli-Palestinian conflict behind. John Turturro plays his nemesis Fantom and the movie is dotted with cameos – folks like the mom from My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Sandler-constant Rob Schneider. Emmanuelle Chriqui (Sloan from Entourage) plays Zohan’s love interest Dahlia, a beauty shop owner who gives Zohan his first haircutting opportunity.

Is it childish? Yes.

Are there too many horrible stereotypes? Of course.

Is there a cameo by Mariah Carey? You bet.

Is there a scrap of a point in this otherwise childish feature-length fart joke of a movie? I suppose.

I think that Sandler’s doing his best to make a point about how people still fight after 2000 years and nothing has ever been accomplished and what would happen if people just stopped fighting. But when that message is buried in a movie about an ex-Israeli assassin who has a dream of being a hairdresser while he discos and schtoops old ladies in the back room, it tends to get  little lost.