adel imam is coming back with a new idea about the relation between Egypt and israel putting the idea in a nice frame work of a story,interesting topic and interesting idea,but the thing that i don't understand is why does he always put these scenes in his movies?i mean these sexual appealing shots in the beginning was not a necessary as far as I'm concerned.and again he has to link sex to every single topic he discusses to get a laugh.he has been always like that since his movies in the 70s and now he is still doing the same thing.i think its about time now that he should stop doing this because he has his big name now and he does not need to do this to make people laugh.back to the movies i think it was a good trail to expose how the Egyptian feel about any Israeli presence in Egypt.but i didn't like the young hot good looking girl joining and actually leading the protests.i think this does not happen in real life.together with the whole Communism idea was out of place.and again he has to put some scenes in any movies to pick on the Islamic groups.i think this scene was also out of place and didn't serve the main idea he was trying to discuss
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lakers4276 November 2006
The last comment by Afro Lian is 100 percent false. First this movie was hilarious, and shows how Egyptians and Arabs as a whole hate the Jews of Israel. It shows how the Israelis play us into doing stuff that us Arabs don't want to. WHat ammo Lian said that was wrong is women do go to protests i don't know what this infidel is talking about. He obviously has never been to one. I think he should think before he writes stuff like that giving a false image to Islam and contributing to the infamous belief that in Islam and Arab world Arab men downgrade women . . . . . . and just so u know i had to say his name wrong of the user because of the guidelines...but u should know who I'm talking bout u will see him . .
seriously...
Eishael956 November 2006
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My mom's friend, Dana copied this movie from the internet, and sent it to us to watch. It was an absolute pain in the rear, I can't stop myself from laughing at this movie. But it was sad at the end, when the Palestinian boy that lived with the guy, got killed. The first part was really a pain in the rear, because he kept on stuffing women's underwear in his pocket and shows it to everybody. And when he sits with the English man and discovered that they were wearing different pairs of socks. One for the English guy, and one for the Arabian guy. Oh... and the romantic part was when he meets this protester, which is a lady, when at the end she works with the guy. I want to send this movie to my family in Lebanon too.
My real opinion
khalidpsn6 June 2020
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I guess this is one of adel emams best movies, I almost always prefer to watch good contents rathar than actor based movies, however, this actor is a different story, from out of nowhere, I've been addicted to his movies for 2 years, I think he's got special comedy and drama which will be missed after he passes away,
From my opinion, the movie dealt with the Palestinian question directly, and shown that some people can sell their honor for money, and some would rather to die for honor, and we shouldn't misjudge anyone, because he/she maybe blackmailed. A really good movie I would highly recommend it specially for adel emam fans
From my opinion, the movie dealt with the Palestinian question directly, and shown that some people can sell their honor for money, and some would rather to die for honor, and we shouldn't misjudge anyone, because he/she maybe blackmailed. A really good movie I would highly recommend it specially for adel emam fans
Bad propaganda rather than entertainment
basato9216 November 2013
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Growing up as an Egyptian, I watched a lot of movies, lots of which from Adel Imam whom I'm a fan of. Unfortunately, this entry disappoints and fails on many accounts.
The first half hour is typical of an Adel Imam film, a lot of sex jokes, normally he manages to make them funny, unfortunately there's more emphasis on sex here rather than jokes, it just wasn't funny.
The movie improves though when he gets to Egypt, there were some good jokes, but it all goes downhill when he find out that he lives next to the Israeli embassy.
Anyone familiar with Egyptian customs knows all about their conflict with Israel given their history and Muslim's general feelings towards Jews. That's the movies biggest fault, it's an anti Israeli propaganda film that's there to paint them in a negative light. As a Coptic Orthodox Christian, I'm neutral on the Egypt/Israel conflict. So I don't like seeing that in my entertainment.
It doesn't say anything profound or anything funny. The truth is this movie had a lot of potential to be funny, the scenario of an average Egyptian living next to an Israeli embassy given the animosity between the two cultures has comedic potential but it was discarded in favour of a mean spirited anti-Israel piece.
Thankfully his subsequent movies, Yacoubyan Apartment and Morgan Ahmed Morgan are much better films with his trademark humour. In fact, Hassan & Marcus, starring himself and Omar Sheriff, deals with a similar topic of prejudice between Egyptian groups, the Copts and Muslims, it's much better because it's not one sided, both the Muslim & Coptic characters are represented as people, and it's quite humorous at times, making the movie accessible despite the heavy topic. I recommend watching those and skipping this one.
The first half hour is typical of an Adel Imam film, a lot of sex jokes, normally he manages to make them funny, unfortunately there's more emphasis on sex here rather than jokes, it just wasn't funny.
The movie improves though when he gets to Egypt, there were some good jokes, but it all goes downhill when he find out that he lives next to the Israeli embassy.
Anyone familiar with Egyptian customs knows all about their conflict with Israel given their history and Muslim's general feelings towards Jews. That's the movies biggest fault, it's an anti Israeli propaganda film that's there to paint them in a negative light. As a Coptic Orthodox Christian, I'm neutral on the Egypt/Israel conflict. So I don't like seeing that in my entertainment.
It doesn't say anything profound or anything funny. The truth is this movie had a lot of potential to be funny, the scenario of an average Egyptian living next to an Israeli embassy given the animosity between the two cultures has comedic potential but it was discarded in favour of a mean spirited anti-Israel piece.
Thankfully his subsequent movies, Yacoubyan Apartment and Morgan Ahmed Morgan are much better films with his trademark humour. In fact, Hassan & Marcus, starring himself and Omar Sheriff, deals with a similar topic of prejudice between Egyptian groups, the Copts and Muslims, it's much better because it's not one sided, both the Muslim & Coptic characters are represented as people, and it's quite humorous at times, making the movie accessible despite the heavy topic. I recommend watching those and skipping this one.
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