We're only too willing to oblige. We struggle to muster a smile at the lifeless punchlines in a misfiring script cobbled together by leading man Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow, the creative spark for The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up.

Sadly, there's no touch of genius here, just puerile humour and cultural stereotypes born from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, plus a waft of homophobia left over from Sandler's previous film, the execrable I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry.

Counter-terrorist commando Zohan (Sandler) is the toast of his homeland, but secretly has little interest in espionage. Instead, his burning desire is to cut hair. So he fakes his own death during a duel with arch-nemesis the Phantom (John Turturro), and heads off to America where he invents a new identity. However, his past comes back to haunt him when the Phantom turns up in the Big Apple, eager to resume hostilities.