70
Writer-director Levy occasionally relies on cheap gags, but his light tone and breezy visual style are a nice contrast to Go for Zucker's metaphorical subtext about familial - and German - reunification.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
Watching the antic inventions of Go for Zucker, I was moved by the thought that Jews have achieved a kind of Germanness again, and even more moved by the thought that Germans have achieved a kind of Jewishness again.
70
Picture lets loose an experienced cast of vets on a well-honed script that has broad appeal.
50
Mildly tasteless (natürlich), if not exactly uproarious.
50
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
A tiresomely madcap story with extremely faint political (and politically incorrect) overtones.
58
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Funny, director and co-writer Dani Levy suggests with no little coldness, how the scent of money can do what religion, ideology, and ethical principles cannot.
75
Go for Zucker is far from a perfect film but it brings easy laughter and joy.
70
Dallas Observer by Robert Wilonsky
Zucker!'s a bona fide hit in Germany, where, apparently, there's been a shortage of Jewish comedies since, oh, 1939, give or take. But it deserves its imported rep; rare's the movie that has an Orthodox Jew tripping on Ecstasy while getting a massage from a Palestinian prostitute hours before his mamala's funeral.
60
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
It's the rare German movie calling itself a comedy that is actually funny, even if only in bits and pieces.
50
Go for Zucker was a smash back home, where it was hailed as the first German comedy about Jews since World War II. But it will take more than that to make American audiences laugh.