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"A good natured Judaic spin on the 70's Blaxploitation genre, the 'Hammer' owes much to Mel Brooks and to the 'Naked Gun,' 'Airplane!,' 'Austin Powers' tradition of broad comedy…infectiously silly..."
David Rooney, Variety |
"It's to die for!" - Mrs. Carver | |
"...an edgy, often shocking jewploitation action film...continuously funny...near-perfect zaniness..."
Michael Bronski, Forward |
"A masterful debut from first time writer/director Jonathan Kesselman...utterly brilliant..."
Paul Fischer, Dark Horizons |
"...let us clarify that this is a big time, Mel Brooks (in his prime) inspired spoof."
Dov Kornits, Filmink Magazine |
"3 ½ out of 4 stars."
Greg Dean Schmit, Yahoo Movies |
"...one of the best Jewish comedies of the past ten years, blending smart satire with a barrage of just-plain-stupid sight gags to winning effect..."
Caroline Westbrook, Jewish.co.uk |
"Mrs. Kesselman must be proud...Such a good-looking boy, that Adam Goldberg!"
Joanne Ostrow, Devner Post |
"...an instant classic...reminds me of Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein...infinitely quotable..."
Judy Frankel, The Capital Times |
"An actual funny comedy...everyone in the theater was laughing."
Rebecca Hodges, Salt Lake Tribune |
"...by far the funniest movie I've seen in a long time…a strange mixture of Shaft and Batman."
Jake McGee, Get Underground |
"This is a hilariously good time...Goldberg is hilarious...Kesselman has crammed this movie with unlimited gags and I found myself laughing throughout the picture. You really can't ask for more from a comedy. This is a movie that would make the Zuckers proud."
Zboneman.com |
"...the comedy in this film, is not only very bloody funny, But The Hebrew Hammer has got one of the cleverest, almost obscure, sly sense of humours I’ve laughed at, in a very long time."
Marc Fennell, The Program |
"...I rarely get to the point of tears in my eyes from laughing at a film but I did with this. It's so seditious, so beautifully timed, so clever and so nicely performed for real..."
Margaret Pomeranz, The Movie Show |
"...profane, shockingly un-PC and often laugh-out-loud hilarious, this is the sort of parody that the folks who made the Airplane and Naked Gun movies used to make -- funny."
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel |
"...an original and laugh-out-loud comedy that has created a new type of action-hero and certainly qualifies as the first 'Jewploitation' film...one need not be Jewish to find this outrageous film uniquely funny...[Kesselman] has scripted and reified a comedic action film which has several layers of humor to be discovered at every turn...Andy Dick (Reality Bites, The Cable Guy) is deliciously devilish as the evil Damian Claus; the versatile Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City, Ali) makes a stylish ally to Hammer as leader of the KLF; and Peter Coyote (E.T, Erin Brockovich) projects subtle comedic genius as the leader of the JJL, irresistibly funny as he sports a Star of David patch over one eye (ala Moshe Dyan) and screams commands while never being too far from a bagel and cream cheese."
Rachel Markus, Filmfestivals.com |
"...it's Kosher, baby."
Ilana Urbach, Pop Crazy |
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