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August 4, 2007 11:25 AM

Night of the Living Jews: Exactly what it sounds like. The trailer is NSFW.
posted by brundlefly (22 comments total)

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posted by brundlefly at 11:26 AM on August 4, 2007

Why is everything about Jews exactly what it sounds like? Have they lost all their mystery?
posted by ORthey at 11:33 AM on August 4, 2007

The Incredible Jew


After physicist Dr. Bruce Berkwitz was caught in the blast of a orthodox bomb he created, he was transformed into the Jew, a naggin monstrosity.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 11:35 AM on August 4, 2007

Since the movie is called Night of the Living Jews, I think it would have been much funnier to have a film about a couple of Jewish guys hanging out around New York one night. Just as they hit the bars and talked about their jobs and stuff.

Also, for comedic movies in the theme, they will never beat the Hebrew Hammer for awesome Jewness.
posted by quin at 11:49 AM on August 4, 2007

The part where he squeezes that zombies boobs and then punches it in the face is pretty damn funny.
posted by Alex404 at 11:59 AM on August 4, 2007

Also, for comedic movies in the theme, they will never beat the Hebrew Hammer for awesome Jewness.

Ha! I just came in here to say that this movie looked terrible but it did make me want to go rent the Hebrew Hammer.
posted by GalaxieFiveHundred at 12:02 PM on August 4, 2007

Sometimes I wonder if Jewishness as a comedic device has been played out, and if it's really funny, or it's just referential-funny. I'll still laugh I guess.
posted by hanoixan at 12:55 PM on August 4, 2007

Q. Why did the call it Blackula?
A. Because Count Chocula was already taken.
posted by furtive at 1:01 PM on August 4, 2007

It was pretty meh.
posted by oddman at 1:46 PM on August 4, 2007

That was terrible...the trailer managed one payot joke and one reference to non-kosher foods. Jeez, even For Your Consideration's bad-Jewish humor was better done.

(And they couldn't have called it Night of the Living Dybbuk?)
posted by kittyprecious at 1:55 PM on August 4, 2007

one payot joke

Damn, I hate the Sephardicization of American Jewosity. What's wrong with payess?
posted by languagehat at 2:50 PM on August 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

Fry: "I'm never gonna get used to the thirty-first century. Caffeinated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? Admiral Crunch?"

Leela: "Well if you don't like that, try some Archduke Chocula."

(I have nothing to say about the goofy trailer)
posted by gwint at 2:53 PM on August 4, 2007

eh, kind of tastless and played out imho. "There are JEWS on the lawn. ZOMBIE Jews." Yes, we get it. Jews are scary. Dead-alive Jews are scarier. Funny? notsomuch.
posted by paddingtonb at 3:02 PM on August 4, 2007

The impetus for the film began with the most significant Jewish discovery since Moses invented the bagel—that deceptively simple, groundbreaking formula: add Hasidic Jews to any situation and that situation instantly becomes a million times funnier.

Does that mean Schindler's List is a comedy?
posted by PostIronyIsNotaMyth at 3:44 PM on August 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

add Hasidic Jews to any situation and that situation instantly becomes a million times funnier.

If that were true, the Giant Eagle in Squirrel Hill wouldn't be such a miserable place.
posted by ludwig_van at 3:50 PM on August 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

PostIronyIsNotaMyth writes "Does that mean Schindler's List is a comedy?"

Only if you play Yakety Sax over the end credits.
posted by brundlefly at 4:11 PM on August 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

I've heard of blood libel, but this is ridiculous.
posted by No-sword at 4:25 PM on August 4, 2007 [2 favorites]

add Hasidic Jews to any situation and that situation instantly becomes a million times funnier.

That's weirdly true, like when you hit your thumb with a hammer.

"Hahaha, that didn't hurt! I meant to do that!"
posted by Mblue at 4:41 PM on August 4, 2007

That would have been funnier if it had been funny.
posted by Astro Zombie at 6:40 PM on August 4, 2007

"For this I should pay eight bucks?!"
posted by rob511 at 6:41 PM on August 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

Does that mean Schindler's List is a comedy?

A million times zero is still zero.
posted by Schlimmbesserung at 9:11 PM on August 5, 2007

"Night of the Living Jews" should really be an uncomfortable-funny Holocaust movie (i.e. indulge the fantasy that the dead of Auschwitz rise again). Or maybe it could be spun as a serious, scary movie.
posted by grobstein at 11:07 PM on August 5, 2007