capone666 The Hebrew HammerThe irony of Jesus being Jewish is he'd likely celebrate Hanukkah over Christmas.However, this comedy speaks to the other Christmas mascot.Bullied as a kid for his beliefs, Mordechai grows up to protect Jews from persecution as The Hebrew Hammer (Adam Goldberg).When his services are needed by the black community to help stop Santa's son (Andy Dick) from eradicating Kwanzaa, Hammer is hesitate until he learns those plans include Hanukkah as well.Backed by the leader of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front (Mario Van Peebles), the chief of the Jewish Justice League (Peter Coyote) and the chief's daughter (Judy Greer), The Hebrew Hammer hunts down Damian.With a surprisingly funny performance from Andy Dick, The Hebrew Hammer is a self- deprecating spoof of every religious observance in December with the streetwise sensibilities of a 1970s blaxploitation film.Besides, without Kwanzaa and Hanukkah decorations retailers would have half of a shelf to fill.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Hysterical beyond belief comedy flick about this Jewish certified circumcised private dick Mordechai Jefferson Carver, Adam Goldberg, known as the "Hebrew Hammer" who dresses up like Shaft and Superfly and knocks the ladies, both Jewish & non-Jewish, dead with his super cool personality and Arnold Schwarzenegger muscle flexing and head cracking like abilities.Mordechai or Mort for short is recruited by the JJL, The Jewish Justice League, to save the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah from being eliminated by young Damian Claus played by Andy Dick. Damian had it in for the Jewish Holiday of Lights-Hanukkah-as well as the African American version of it Kwanzaa for years. That in them interfering and competing with Chistmas and now in Damian being the new Santa Claus he has the power to do it. That's after him having done in, with the help of Santa's reindeer's, his Pop Old man Santa Claus, Ricard Riehle. It's Old man Santa whom Damian considered to be too liberal for his tastes in being in favor of letting everyone, regardless of race color and creed as well as religion, celebrate the winter holiday whichever way they choose.It took a while for Mort to except his holy mission to save Hanukkah in that he's been on the outs with the JJL for some time. That's in the JJL's top military chief the bagel lox & cream-cheese eating General Bloombergensteinenthal, played by a Moshie Dayan looking Peter Coyote, disagreement in his wholly unorthodox and non-Jewish crime fighting tactics. It was General "B" who had Mort booted out of that Jewsih crime fighting organization for going too far, to say the least, in his non-kosher like super crime fighting efforts. With the help of the Chief's pretty daughter Esther, Judy Geer, Mort changes his mind after a little physical, if you know what I mean, persuasion on Esther's part. Mort now seeing the light, glowing from the Hanukkah Menorah, and importance of his mission soon goes into action together with his comrade in arms KLF, Kwanzaa Liberation Front, Chief Mohammed Ali Paula Abdul Rahim, Mario Von Peebles,to stop the evil Santa from accomplishing his sinister attempt of putting an end once in for all to the ancient Jewish holiday of lights:Hanukkah!***SPOILERS*** Laugh a minute comedy as Mort & Mohammed, known as the M & M Boys, battle it out with Damian Claus and his evil Elf Tiny Tim, Shean Whalen, in preventing them from blotting or wiping Hanukkah off the face of the Jewish as well as non-Jewish calendars! The battle leads straight to the North Pole itself where a cornered like a rat Damian puts up his last stand to stop the "Hebrew Hammer" or Mort from keeping him from accomplishing his evil mission. But in the end Damian is stymied in Mort putting the guilt trip, in trying to destroy Hanukkah, on him that finally had Damian see the light as well as the evils of his ways. That lead the guilt ridden Damian Claus to almost beg Mort to do him in which in a show of genuine humanity, which Damian lacked, he doesn't.P.S Among everything else that Mort & Mohammed accomplish in the movie to save both Hanukkah as well as Kwanzaa in the end they even saved the life of former New York City Mayor Ed "How am I doin" Koch played by Koch himself in a cameo role. It was Koch who was being held hostage and set to be executed by Damian's hoof stomping and antler slicing reindeer when Damian felt the time was right and that he was no use, as a hostage, to him anymore.

Samiam3 Odd as it may sound, it takes a bit of brains to enjoy the Hebrew Hammer. The movie requires its viewers to have a fairly extensive knowledge of Jewish stereotypes, which is what the film lives off of, quite effectivelyNot since Mel Brook's last good movie (Men in Tights) have I sampled Jewish humour this laugh out loud. It's wild and wacky, and despite pushing into the red zone, it's not all that offencive (unless you are orthodox). My dad is an extremely tough critic, and is easily offended by red zone stuff, but I got him to watch part of this, and he laughed. The plot is deliberately cheesy. It concerns a pimping agent of a Jewish Justice League, who goes by the name of 'Hammer', and he takes on the mission to stop Santa Claus Jr. from destroying Chanukah (which he is unable to pronounce).The jokes keep coming, and they never get tiring, but in the climactic twenty minutes, something goes wrong. The humour starts to disintegrate a bit (except for a funny cameo by Ed Koch) and the silliness of the plot ceases to wink at itself, It goes from satirical cliché to regular cliché (the hero must rescue his damsel in distress)Well, no film is perfect. I suppose there is one other problem with the movie, but it's not as big a deal. I'm not realty sure who best to recommend it to. If I had to guess I would say this kind of stuff would be right for the same audience who embraces Team America. It is crude, crazy, satirical, but really funny.

jillandpaul1970 I had heard some people mention this movie and that it was on comedy central, but I didn't know much about it before I came across it at blockbuster. This was by far, one of the funniest movies I've seen in a really long time. My husband and I we're in tears from it, and have been quoting lines all week. The movie reminds me of something like Blazing Saddles crossed with Naked Gun and Shaft, but is more very clever and sly in how it tells a lot of the jokes. Adam Goldberg (the guy from Dazed and Confused "I just want to dance!" is the Hebrew Hammer - a Jewish Superfly/Batman kind of character who takes on an evil bi-Sexual Santa Clause. This description isn't even doing it justice. The movie is very creative and original, and you have no idea what's coming next. I was surprised something this good didn't get more notice, and I guess it was probably because it was a comedy central movie. But oh my god, if you like smart, un-PC comedies that don't let up, RENT THIS MOVIE! It's one of the funniest things you'll see. After we took it back, we bought a copy for our DVD collection - it's that good.