The Incredible Hulk- Detailed summary
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‘Incredible Hulk‘ is a superhero movie akin to the Iron Man in many ways. During the opening credits, the back story about the origin of Hulk is narrated through montages. Five years have passed since then and Dr. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) is now a fugitive living in Rio favela, Brazil. He works as a laborer in a soda bottling plant and is learning anger management by practicing meditative breathing techniques to control his pulse rate. He has not changed into green monster for 158 days. He is also in touch with another scientist, simply known as Mr. Blue. through internet and is trying to find a cure for his condition using rare herbs with his help. All his efforts have proved to be unsuccessful so far. Mr. Blue needs details of the experiments which Banner had carried out on himself before he tries anything else. But that data is in the computer of his lab in University back in USA.
Accidentally, Banner cuts his finger and a drop of blood falls into a bottle. It travels to US and is consumed by an unfortunate old man (Stan Lee). It is enough to put General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (William Hurt) on his tracks. He sends a special team there under the leadership of a Russian born British special agent Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth) to bring him back to US. Banner tries to escape but under the duress turns into the Hulk and fights off the team in the bottle factory. Blonsky becomes infuriated at his own defeat and after General narrates the whole story about the origin of Hulk agrees to get super soldier serum injected in his body. It promises to give him enhanced speed, agility, reflexes and healing ability.
Banner, in the meantime, returns to Culver University in the United States and tries to find the data in his lab. To his disappointment, he fails to do it. He finds out that his girl Betty Ross, a cellular scientist and General Ross’ daughter, is now dating University psychiatrist Leonard Samson. He decides to keep away from her but they are reunited when she catches a glimpse of him and follow him. She had kept that data safe from her father and gives him a pen drive containing the same. The day he is about to leave, he is attacked by General and Blonsky with full force in the University campus to draw out the Hulk. A terrible fight ensues and the Hulk manages to escape along with an unconscious Betty.
Banner transfers data to Mr. Blue the next day but as Ross and his team has wired all computers, they find out the location of Mr. Blue. Meanwhile, Betty and Bruce travel to New York to meet Mr. Blue who is cellular biologist at Dr. Samuel Sterns (Tim Blake Nelson), at a university. He has found a possible antidote for Banner’s condition that may cure him completely or at least reverse the each individual transformation. He tests this antidote successfully on Banner and declares his intention to use Banner’s blood, which he has synthesized into a large supply, to enhance the human condition to the next evolutionary level. Banner is appalled by this information and tries to reason with Stern to destroy it. He is afraid that the blood supply will fall into wrong hands and the power of Hulk will be misused. Before he could convince Stern, they are attacked by Ross’ forces with Blonsky in tow and Banner and Betty are taken into custody.
While Stern is being interrogated by a female officer about his experiment Blonsky strikes her down and demands that Stern inject him with Banner’s blood. He ignores Stern’s warning that concoction of superhuman formula which he has an over dose of, and a gamma treatment could wreck havoc on his body, mutating him into ‘abomination’, and coerce Stern into injecting Banner’s blood-derivative into him.
Left with no other option, Stern complies and Blonsky is transmuted into a monster which is even more powerful than Hulk. He knocks Stern aside and escapes into the streets spawning destruction. At the lab, a sample of Banner’s blood-derivative drips into an open wound on Sterns’ temple, causing his cranium to mutate and expands. Abomination, meanwhile, indulges in mindless violence and arson, killing thousands to attract Hulk out of Banner so that he could avenge his defeat.
Banner, along with others on the helicopter witnesses the devastation caused by the ‘abomination‘ and realizes that only he can put a stop to this. He is faced with the agonizing choice of leading a peaceful life as Dr. Bruce Banner or finding heroism with the creature living inside him. Despite Betty’s pleas, he persuades General to let him go to fight ‘abomination’. He falls from the helicopter hoping that the fall will initiate the transformation, and succeeds in his plans. A fierce battle ensues and ‘abomination’ crashes down the helicopter also. He tries to kill General and Betty as they try to escape from the debris of helicopter. This further enrages Hulk who almost strangles ‘abomination’ with heavy chain but yields to mute entreaty of Betty and leaves the scene.
Banner moves to Bella Coola, British Columbia, and thirty one days pass without any incident. He is now trying to accept Hulk as a part of him and instead of suppressing his transformations he is practicing to bring about transmutations in a controlled manner. As his eyes turn green, a grin appears on his face. In the meantime, General is sitting in a bar when he is approached by Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) who discloses that a “team” is being put together.
Indiana Jones part 4- Detailed Summary
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The film opens in the carefree days of 1957 when the Red Scare was at its peak. The film is different from the previous ones as this time Indiana is involved with aliens and new age ideas rather than adventure centered on religious myths. This fourth part is released after nineteen years, both in real life and the time the last movie was set in.
Jeeps are seen driving into the Neveda Desert as Irina Spalko, a Russian psychic with clear connections to the Soviet Union and a number of other Soviet agents posing as U.S. officials, force Indiana Jones, an archeologist, into “Hangar 51″. Their only motive is to get the remains of an extraterrestrial creature that crashed ten years ago in Roswell, New Mexico, with the help of Indiana. Indiana and his assistant Mac, who is actually a triple agent, working for CIA, for Dr. Spalko and is also with Indiana at other times, try to escape from the grasp of the Soviet’s. Indiana is dumped at the last moment by Mac, who tells him that he is working for the Soviet’s as well.
Now that Indiana knows that he is all alone, he fights for his life. After a whole lot of fight sequence which includes a wild jeep chase, a digital clock down, whip cracks, he is finally able to escape on a rocket sled into the desert, where he staggers on a nuclear test town and manages to survive a nuclear blast by hiding himself in a lead lined refrigerator. While being questioned about the whole mission, he realizes that he is under FBI investigation, because of Mac’s Soviet ties.
Indiana, now that he has been able to save his life, tries to get back to his normal life at Marshall College, where he is a professor. But as soon as he returns to college, the Dean gives him a mandatory leave of absence, to save him from losing his job, because of the FBI investigation. Now that Indiana doesn’t have to go to college, in the next scene we see him leaving for London. At the train station, he is suddenly stopped by Mutt Williams, who informs him that one of his old colleagues, Harold Oxley, is missing after he discovered a crystal skull, near the Nazca lines in Peru.
To discuss the matter in detail and to think of a plan to find Oxley, the two men go to a local restaurant, where they discuss Akator, a supposedly ancient underground city somewhere between Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. They also discuss about the crystal skull and the Ugha tribe. Mutt then hands over a letter to Indiana from Oxley. As they leave, the Soviet agents who were keeping an eye on them start following them. After a dizzying motorcycle chase through the university and its library, they are finally able to save themselves from the agents. Indiana later realizes that the Soviet’s were actually following Mutt, as they needed him to decode the letter by Oxley, which is written in an ancient language and must be decoded in order to find out the location of Oxley and Mutt’s mother.
Indiana and Mutt now are on a mission to find Oxley, for which they travel to South America. When they reach Peru, they start finding about Oxley. Soon they are able to gather some information regarding him. They find out that Oxley was locked in a church-operated psychiatric hospital until the Soviet’s kidnapped him. They then decide to check out Oxley’s cell in the psychiatric hospital where he was locked, which actually turns out to be fruitful. In his cell, Indiana discovers clues leading to the grave of Francisco de Orellana, a Conquistador who went missing in the 1500s while seeking Akator.
With the clues that they got in Oxley’s cell, he soon finds out the crystal skull that Oxley had hidden in Orellana’s grave. At the same time, the Soviets capture them and take them to the same place where they have kept Oxley and Mutt’s mother, Marion Ravenwood. There are quiet a few things which Indiana is unaware of. The first thing that he learns is that the Soviets believe that the crystal skull, which can magnetically attract even non-ferrous objects, is from an extraterrestrial life-form and holds great psychic power. Oxley too has suffered a mental breakdown due to exposure to the skull’s powers.
The next thing that he learns is that Mutt actually is Indiana’s son and that his real name is Henry Jones III. His mother Marion is his girlfriend from the past. After all the revelations, they manage to flee from the hold of the Soviets. A whole lot of struggle ensues including a sword fight sequence between Mutt and Spalko, with Mutt swinging on vines like monkeys. They face a swarm of killer siafu ants which devour a couple of Russian soldier’s right in front of their eyes; they are able to save their lives from the siafu ants by keeping the skull in front the ants. The five manage to escape from the Soviets on an amphibious vehicle. They, then, arrive at the Temple of Akator, a Maya-style pyramid in the Amazon rainforest. To get into the temple Mac, who is also accompanying the four, claims that he is a CIA double agent and that he is working against the Soviets. He again shows his loyalty towards Soviets, by leaving a track for Spalko and the others to follow.
Five of them, then, enter the temple. Indiana uses the skull to open the door to a chamber of the tomb. When they enter the chamber, they find thirteen crystal skeletons seated on the thrones in a circle. Out of the thirteen skeletons one’s skull is missing. Soon, the Soviet does too reach the temple, following the tracks which Mac had left behind, for them to follow.
Once they are inside the temple, Mac’s true identity, of being a member of the Soviet group is again revealed to all. Spalko, in a hasty manner takes the skull from Indiana and places it on the skeleton, as it was believed that who so ever will place the skull onto the skeleton will get a great gift from them. The moment Spalko places the skull onto the skeleton; it begins talking to the rest of the group through Oxley in an ancient Mayan dialect. Indiana then translates for the group what the skeletons are saying, revealing that they want to give a “great gift” to them. At that moment Spalko quickly says that she wants to “know everything”. The skeletons then start transferring knowledge into her mind. As a portal opens at the top of the room, Oxley gets back his sanity.
He then explains to the rest of the group that the aliens are inter-dimensional beings who taught the Ugha warriors their advanced technology. Now the portal which is like cyclone, starts swallowing everything in it. Somehow Indiana, Mutt, Oxley and Marion are able to escape from the temple. Mac is sucked into the portal as he was busy collecting the treasure that was there. With all this going on, the skeletons start revolving in a circle, ultimately becoming one. In the mean time they are also refurbishing Spalko with knowledge she had asked for. But the knowledge is too much for her and she is unable handle it, causing her to burst into flames and ultimately fall to pieces. Her scattered essence is also absorbed by the portal. Finally the temple too crumbles and a flying saucer rises from the debris and disappears as the Amazon River floods the valley.
The mission here comes to an end. Finally, the four get back to their home. Indiana is given back his job and is made an associate Dean at the Marshall College. The movie ends with Indiana getting back his long lost girlfriend, as his wife.
Step Brothers- Detailed Summary
Step Brothers is a no hold barred outrageous exaggeration of sibling rivalry between Ferrell and Reilly who play 40 year old newly introduced step brothers. They both live with their parents, who have spent the last quarter of the century thinking of the right way to push them out of the nest. Brennan Huff (Will Ferrell) lives with his mom Nancy (Mary Steenburgen). Having spent large part of his 39 years in living off his mom, he occasionally finds employment only to give it up again. Dale Doback (Reilly) is a chronically unemployed 42 year old, living with his father Robert (Richard Jenkins).
Their life takes a sudden twist when Nancy and Robert fall in love, get married and start living together. Dale and Brennan are forced to share a room which immediately results in a conflict as neither boy is used to share anything. They take an instant dislike for each other. Dale, more aggressive and sullen of the two, verbally pounds his unwanted roommate. He strictly warns Brennan not to touch his Drum set. Sure enough, Brennan is tempted so much that he plays the Drums in Dale’s absence and leaves the room before he arrives. Dale notices a chip on the drumstick as soon as he enters the room and confronts Brennan about it. Despite Brennan’s denial, they start fighting till they are separated by their parents who ask them to find a job or else move out.
The boys soon find out that they have a lot in common including their love for ninjas, COPS, porn-mags and comfort of living in the fantasy world of extended adolescence. Another factor that strengthens their bond is their intense dislike for Brennan’s younger brother Derek (Adam Scott) who comes to visit them with his family. Derek is brutish, insincere and self involved executive at a helicopter charter firm. To Dale and Brennan, Derek presents a nightmarish vision of adulthood. They hide in Dale’s tree house to avoid him. But ultimately, they have to face him. Angered by Derek’s mocking, Dale punches him on the face. It works like a magic on Brennan who always wanted to do that but never had the courage. It seals their friendship. This incident has another interesting outcome. Derek’s long suffering wife Alice(Kathryn Hahn) finds it extremely arousing and gets passionately obsessed with Dale after he punches her husband squarely on face.
As warned by their parents, they start looking for jobs but perform very badly at the interviews as expected. One day while walking home they have a brain wave to start their own company by the name of ‘Prestige Worldwide‘. They run into kids who regularly beat up Dale. The kids humiliate Dale and Brennan by making them lick dog’s feces after beating them up.
At home, their parents disclose that Derek is selling the house. To sabotage Derek’s evil designs, Dale and Brennan dress up as bad neighbors and fake Brennan’s death in front of prospective buyer. Later, they shoot a music video on Robert’s boat to promote their talent and show it to everyone including their parents and Derek. The footage reveals that the boat was crashed into rocks, prompting Robert to punish them. Things come to head when they attack Robert while sleepwalking during Christmas time. Unable to put up with the boys anymore, Robert is forced to divorce Nancy. He holds Dale and Brennan responsible for their separation who, in turn blame each other and turn their backs on each other. Finally, divorce of their parents goad them into doing something that nothing else could. They find jobs and become independent, moving into their separate apartments. Brennan starts working for Derek and Dale becomes a caterer. But they miss each other and become miserable.
They meet again at a sales party of helicopters arranged by Brennan that is referred to as the Fucking Catalina Wine Mixer. The whole family is present there along with Nancy and Robert. Robert realizes that Dale and Brennan are miserable just as the band playing at the party quits because of a heckler. He encourages them to be true to themselves and take the chance that life has thrown their way. They must come together to fulfill their dreams. They go on stage as “Prestige Worldwide” and everyone cheer them. Robert and Nancy along with Derek have a change of heart when they listen to Brennan singing. Parents fall in love again and Derek regains love for his brother.
Everything falls into place after that. Robert and Nancy get married again and shack up. They have a new tree house made out of the damaged boat just for Dale and Brennan, who after their unexpected success turn professionals. They become successful karaoke duo.
The best is saved for the last. During the credits at the end of the movie, Brennan and Dale arrive in a helicopter and take revenge from the kids by beating them.
Hancock- Detailed Summary
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Hancock is a superhero albeit with a difference. He is alcoholic, cynical, and completely down and out with his super heroism thrust upon him. A reluctant superhero you can say who goes about saving the world while leaving a trail of destruction. He is mad at world that jeers at him and at best ignores him. He lives in Los Angeles and is an absolute bum. Residents of the city think of him as a nuisance they can very well do without instead of a savior who is helping them by making the city a safer place. His each heroic deed is met with criticism and court subpoenas for property damage he has caused.
The movie opens to three goons being chased by the police. Our superhero is awoken from his drunken slumber by a little boy and reminded of his duty as a superhero. Hancock reluctantly flies off to the scene of crime and manages to pin the criminals only to be severely criticized by the public and administration alike for causing damage worth several million dollars.
Ray Embrey is a public relation person who unsuccessfully pitches his All-Heart logo to corporate houses who are, or at least want to be perceived as extremely charitable. While returning home after one such unsuccessful meeting, his car gets stuck on the rail tracks because of heavy traffic. All his attempts to escape from his car on seeing a freight train approaching prove to be futile. Just as he thinks that it’s the end of him Hancock comes to his rescue. Hancock picks his car from the tracks and throws it on other cars. He steps right in front of the train to stop it and derails it in the process. Public starts jeering at him for causing so much damage and nearly killing the driver of the other car. Ray is the only one who realizes that Hancock has saved his life. He thanks him profusely and Hancock graciously drops him to his home (quite literary) along with his car. There Ray introduces him to his wife and son and invites him for dinner. Ray’s son is a huge fan of Hancock but his wife is skeptical of the superhero.
After the dinner, Ray tries to convince Hancock to have image makeover. And for the first time the loneliness and vulnerability of Hancock surfaces. He is not as indifferent as he seems and the warmth shown by Ray touches him deeply. After his initial refusal, he agrees to let Ray handle things for him. Hancock publicly apologizes for his indiscretion and agrees to be incarcerated for the damage of property he had caused at Ray’s instance. The only problem is that jail is full of criminals, who were sent there by Hancock. But it is actually no problem for Hancock as he knows how to handle them. They soon learn that it’s best to leave him alone.
Hancock gradually opens up and his apathetic attitude towards other people begins to melt away. Ray and his family’s undiluted affection and concern changes Hancock as he no longer feels neglected or uncared for. Finally Ray’s plan succeeds and public realizes the importance of having Hancock amongst them. The crime rate shoots up and police is unable to control the situation. Ultimately, the police chief calls Hancock to help them with a bank robbery. Hancock arrives in his new suit provided by Ray and saves the life of an officer before he foils the robbery and rescues the hostages held by the leader of the robbers, Red Parker.
This time, people of Los Angeles respond with elation and applaud their superhero. Hancock becomes popular with the residents of the city as Ray had predicted. To celebrate, Hancock goes out for dinner with Embreys. Over the dinner Ray narrates the story of his first meeting with Mary after his first wife’s death during childbirth. Hancock also talks about his amnesia of last 80 years and his apparent immortality.
Back home, Hancock tucks a drunk Ray in bed before he comes down to Mary. Both are drawn to each other and it is revealed that Mary also has superpowers like Hancock.
But Mary asks Hancock to remain quiet and leave their family alone. He threatens to expose her unless she tells him more about them.
She visits him next day and tells him that they were made in pairs and have been around for about 3000 years. They were called gods and angels at other times and now they are the only two of their kind left. She admits that she actually is his wife. Hancock wants to talk to Ray immediately but Mary tries to stop him. A struggle ensues between them resulting in considerable damage to the downtown Los Angeles where Ray is present for a meeting, who sees and recognizes Mary using her superpowers.
Disillusioned Hancock goes to a liquor store to get a bottle and gets shot in torso while foiling an armed robbery attempt. He starts bleeding and has to be hospitalized. Mary visits him and reveals what she had withheld earlier. She tells him that when a pair of immortals comes close, they start to lose their powers. They turn into ordinary humans and die like them. She recounts many instances when they were separated while trying to save each other including the time 80 years ago when he was attacked in an alley while they were going for a movie. Fractured skull caused him amnesia and she decides to stay away from him so that he could recover.
While they are talking, hospital is attacked by Red Parker, the bank robber along with two other jail inmates who have a score to settle with Hancock. Mary gets injured just as Hancock manages to stop the two fellows. Red Parker tries to finish off Hancock but Ray aborts his attempt by throwing a fire axe at him.
Blood rushes out of Mary and her pulse becomes very weak. All attempts to revive her come to a naught. At one point no pulse could be seen. So Hancock, with the last ounce of his energy, takes off from the hospital. As the distance between Mary and him grows, both begin to heal.
Hancock finally lands in New York working as a superhero. To show his gratitude to Ray, he paints All-Hearts logo on the moon before calling him and asking Ray to look up to see the world wide advertisement of his logo.
Sex and the City- Detailed Summary
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‘Sex and the City‘ is a romantic comedy filled with wit, drama and of course, plenty of sex. The movie opens four years after the events of series’ finale. The four friends have moved on with time though they continue to search for the best way to juggle their jobs, relationships and friendships. Carrie, the narrator in the film, is looking for an apartment with Mr. Big so that they can move in. In the course of their search she falls for a penthouse suite far above their price range. But Mr. Big, gallantly, agrees to pay for it. However, Carrie has serious doubts about the practicality of such arrangement since they are not married and she would have no legal rights in case they decide to go separate ways. To quell her fears, Mr. Big suggest that they should get married.
Samantha has moved with Smith Jerrod into a beach house in Los Angles. Smith is a successful TV actor now. Samantha shuttles between LA and New York, dividing her time between Smith and her friends, rarely finding time for herself. She is giving monogamy her best shot but apparently even her best is not good enough. She is constantly grappling with her desire to have sex with other men especially her striking and sexually active next door neighbor Dante (Gillies Marini). Charlotte is leading a happy and contented life with her husband Harry and her adopted Chinese daughter Lily. Life could be perfect but for her one unfulfilled desire of having her own child. Miranda has her hands full with a career as lawyer, a home and a child. She is trying her best to juggle it but confesses to her girl friends that she and Steve did not have sex for almost six months. The last straw comes when Steve confesses to his one night stand which leaves her devastated and she leaves him immediately.
Carrie plans her wedding so meticulously that soon her plans get escalated into a lavish event. Mr. Big begins to have second thoughts about the whole idea. Things take a ugly turn at the rehearsal dinner. Miranda, still upset over Steve’s indiscretion, after an argument with him, tells Mr. Big brusquely that Carrie and he must be crazy to get married as marriage ruins everything. On the appointed day Mr. Big develop cold feet and to Carrie’s utter disbelief and horror, he refuses to go through with the wedding. Devastated and humiliated over the betrayal she flees from New York Public Library where ceremony was supposed to take place. Mr. Big subsequently has a change of heart and he intercepts Carrie’s limousine but she attacks him with her bouquet and screams her dismay at him. Miranda and Charlotte give her furious looks but to no avail. However, four friends take the Honeymoon Carrie had booked to Mexico and make use of that time to de-stress and rejuvenate. While they were in Mexico, Charlotte discovers that she is pregnant.
After returning home, Carrie hires an assistant Louise (Jennifer Hudson) to assist her in managing her day to day affairs and with her help moves back to her old apartment. Miranda subsequently discloses the conversation which had taken place between her and Mr. Big at the rehearsal dinner to Carrie, leading to a temporary rift between the two friends. Miranda later reflects on that particular conversation with Carrie and agrees to go for couple counseling with Steve. Things take turn for better when they are able to sort out their problems and issues eventually leading to their reconciliation
Samantha resorts to overeating to keep herself from cheating on Steve with Dante. She finally realizes that her relationship with Steve is taking a toll on her and she needs to put herself first. They break up and she moves back to New York.
A chanced encounter with Mr. Big makes Charlotte so agitated that she goes into the labor. Mr. Big takes Charlotte to the hospital and waits there till baby Rose is born hoping to run into Carrie. His hopes are dashed to the grounds but Harry understands what’s going on in his mind and delivers the message to Carrie that Big would like to talk to her. He also informs her that he has been writing to her regularly despite of not receiving any reply from her. Carrie searches her correspondence for his mails before it dawns on her that Louise must have kept his mails password protected from her. Actually, Carrie had once proclaimed that she wanted to severe all ties with him and Louise had taken her words quite literally.
Going through his mails, she realizes that he had sent her dozens of letters copied from a book named Love Letters of Great Men Vol. 1 that she had shown him weeks before their proposed wedding. The last letter was written by him where he had shown remorse over his thoughtlessness and apologized for screwing up the wedding. He had ended the letter by promising to love her forever. An hour before the locks of their shared penthouse are scheduled to be changed, Carrie goes there to collect her mint condition Manolo Blahnik shoes she had left there. She finds Mr. Big in the walk in closet he had got made for her. Her anger and resentment dissipates the moment she sets her eyes on him. They both fall into each other’s arms and kiss passionately. They spend rest of that hour talking and apologizing to each other. Mr. Big proposes Carrie again using her diamond encrusted shoe instead of a ring. They marry alone this time in New York City Hall. A simple wedding where Carrie wears her original wedding dress she had bought from a vintage shop, is followed by a get together with friends at a local diner.
The film closes on four friends celebrating Samantha’s 50th birthday while sipping Cosmopolitan sitting around a table in a restaurant.
You don’t mess with the Zohan-full synopsis
YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN
The movie opens at a beach where Zohan (Adam Sandler), a Mossad agent is attracting a lot of attention of all the women around with his prowess. He shows his extraordinary power and skill by playing ball and cooking fish simultaneously, in nude, using copious amount of hummus for his friend, several women and himself. Just as he serves fish, his much deserved vacation is interrupted by Israeli Defense Forces helicopter. Reluctantly, he goes with them to complete a mission waiting for him.
Back at the base, he openly expresses his displeasure at being called back. He finally agrees to do another job of recapturing a Palestinian terrorist, beside another spy who is to be named later, after being heckled by his officer. The terrorist ‘Phantom’ (John Turturro) was freed in exchange of a captured Mossad agent. While having dinner with his family, he tells them that he is fed up with the ongoing war and wants to do something creative. He expresses his desire to go to America and become a hair stylist. His parents laugh at his wish and advice him to remain a soldier. He becomes disgruntled and cries himself to sleep.
He goes to capture Phantom and finds him quite easily using his superhuman agility and power. But Phantom evades arrest by jumping out of window with Zohan in hot pursuit. They have a fight in the sea from where Zohan manages to disappear leaving behind his trunks, to assure everybody including Phantom of his death. Phantom becomes a hero in Palestine for killing Zohan, who smuggles inside a pet crate aboard a flight to New York. He changes his hairstyle into a 1980s Paul Mitchell’s Avalon style and trims his beard. He also takes up the name of two dogs in whose crate he is traveling, Scrappy Coco, as his nom de plume.
Zohan’s initial attempts to find employment at various hair salons fail miserably. The chic Paul Mitchell salon and an African American beauty salon refuse to hire him despite his showing off his military skills. At a kids’ salon, he manages to frighten all children waiting for their turns to get a haircut, resulting in a pandemonium. Zohan helps a cyclist, Michael (Nick Swardson) using his astonishing military skills who, at once, becomes his friend and takes him home. Michael offers Zohan a place to stay but finds his overt sexual relationship with Michael’s mom, Gail (Lainie Kazan) quite disgusting.
Zohan’s love for disco takes him to a discothèque where he runs into a fellow Israeli Uri (Ido Mosseri) who is a great fan of Zohan. He recognizes him immediately but agrees to keep mum about Scrappy Coco’s true identity. Uri offers him a job at his electronic store which is turned down politely. After a few days, a disillusioned Zohan visits Uri’s store looking for a job. Uri refuses him saying that he must follow his dreams as working in an electronic store tend to kill dreams. But, Zohan is unwittingly introduced by Uri to a block in lower Manhattan packed with Middle Eastern Americans. The street is split in Palestinian side and Israeli side.
Zohan visits a salon run by a Palestinian woman named Dhalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui) and persuades her to hire him. Tentatively, she allows him to sweep the floor. In his enthusiasm, he does not let even a single strand of hair fall on the ground. Dhalia objects to his shop talk that is filled with sexual innuendoes. But the elderly female customers say that they don’t mind. Rather a woman specifically asks for him to style her hair. Dahlia allows him to be a stylist after he satisfies a senior lady with a good hair cut and gratifying back room sexual services. Soon the business picks up and there is a long queue of women out side the salon for Zohan’s services. Elderly women flock from all over Lower Manhattan and are heard commenting that “besides the sex, he gives a pretty good haircut.” The booming business of Dhalia upsets Walbridge (Michael Buffer), a corporate magnet who wants to construct a roller coaster mall in place of that street and has been trying to force all the tenets out of the block. Zohan suggests his Chinese American colleague to follow his techniques to please the customers. He shows him how to rub his crotch against the shoulder of a customer while giving her a head bath.
Zohan is finally recognized by a Palestinian cab driver named Salim (Rob Schneider) who once got into a fight with Zohan. Once, Zohan punched his face and took his goat away after Salim had thrown his shoe at him and spat on his face. Salim talks his friends into helping him eliminate Zohan. He rejects their suggestion that Zohan’s assassination should best be left for the professionals, like Phantom to handle. He argues that Phantom is already a hero, whereas he wants to become a hero after killing Zohan. They decide to make a bomb but don’t know how to do that. They just know that chemicals are used for the purpose. One of them remembers that nitroglycerine is one such chemical. They go to a pharmacy looking for that but due to faulty pronunciation by Salim they end up buying ‘Neosporin’, a medicine for minor cuts and burns. When it fails to blow Zohan’s work place, they have no other option but to contact Phantom through a Hezbollah hotline. Phantom, now, owns a successful fast food chain. Once he recognizes Zohan’s picture, he at once, agrees to come to New York to finish him off.
Zohan, in the meanwhile, falls in love with Dhalia but he is afraid to tell her that he is an Israeli. He starts suffering from erectile dysfunction except in her presence. Even visit to a doctor proves to be futile. He shares it with Gail and others at home and she explains to him that Dhalia must be the special one for him. Gail also encourages him to come clean with Dhalia about his true identity. But Dahlia turns his proposal down when she comes to know that he is a former Israeli counter-terrorist operative and asks him to leave because she knows that her family would never accept him.
Phantom reaches New York and confronts Zohan. Their fight is cut short by the news that Middle Eastern block is under attack by arsonists wearing Arabic clothes. These arsonists are actually racist whites hired by Walbridge to set off inter-ethnic riots between Israelis and Palestinians. He wants them to destroy each other’s property thus, paving way to the construction of his mall. Phantom and Zohan work in tandem to douse the fire and save the block. Dahlia appears and reasons with Phantom whom she calls “Fattoush” as he is her brother. She explains that everybody there is just trying to make a living and whether Palestinian or Isreali, everyone is tired of war. Their personal dreams and ambitions are being sacrificed at the altar of war. Phantom confesses that he always wanted to own a shoe store as he loves shoes.
Zohan’s personal dossier makes it possible for him to recognize the arsonists as Rednecks hired by Walbridge. A united Israeli and Palestinian front is lead by Phantom and Zohan to save their shops. They defeat the rednecks ruining Walbridge’s plans while damaging all the shops on the block by using “The Sound” which is a combination of stereotypical Arabic rhythmic calling and stereotypical Hebrew “chhhh” sounds. The police arrest Walberg for his crimes.
The block is now converted into collectively owned mall by both Israelis and Palestinians. Zohan and Dhalia open a joint beauty salon named ‘Dhalohan’ in the same mall. Phantom also fulfills his lifelong dream of owning a shoe store. The movie ends on a happy note when Zohan’s parents give him a surprise visit and approve their Palestinian daughter-in-law and his new salon by becoming its customers.