You Don't Mess with the Zohan

Continuity mistake: During the opening credits, Zohan walks surrounded by girls. On the far left of the screen is a girl with a green bikini and large sunglasses. When the angle changes she's suddenly moved to the far right end of the screen.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Zohan is in the cab, in the background you see that a truck suddenly appears at the right side.

Continuity mistake: Zohan pulls the bull inside the sand hole, making it fall on its head and balancing his back on the air, but half a second later the bull is standing perfectly on its four legs.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While Zohan eats with his parents, his hand is either away or holding the soda bottle, depending on the angle focusing on him.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Zohan kills the bad guy with a knife and sends him flying away, he lands close to the back wheels of the car. But an immediate shot shows him away from the car, to the left of it.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While Zohan eats the chocolate bar while being told about the terrorist, the amount of wrap on the bar appears and disappears depending on the angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Zohan Pinches the little kid, in one shot he reaches his left hand towards the kid, but in another shot, he uses his right hand.

Continuity mistake: Zohan pinches the kid's shoulder and knocks him out, but his arms keep changing position from relaxed by the side to bent between shots, despite him being unconscious.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Zohan makes a kick in the air and breaks through a wall. The hole it makes differs in shape the second time the camera shows it.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Zohan is washing the hair of his first client he lifts up her hair and puts it in the basin, but in the next shot of her, her hair is back outside of the basin, then in the next shot it's back in.

GuruRose

Continuity mistake: When the movie starts, a woman on the left with curly hair is either clapping or waving her arms, depending on the shot. This changes back and forth.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Zohan dines with his parents, when the camera angle is on his dad the bottle is facing a different side than on the rest of the shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: The first time Zohan watches the hair salon it's broad daylight, then a shot later it's quite dark, then in the next shot it's not so dark, but it's dusky and not as sunny as it was in the first shot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When they throw the Neosporin on the window it lands approximately two feet in from the right edge in the shots taken directly from in front of the store. In the in between shot that's taken from an angle, the blob is now right next to the frame of the window above the "Closed" sign instead.

jerimiah

Continuity mistake: When Zohan is in the cab, in the background you see that a truck suddenly appears at the right side.

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Trivia: Paul Mitchell actually died in 1989. As an inside joke, the man portraying him when he talks to the Zohan on the phone is his business partner John Paul Dejoria. Dejoria has been the face of the Paul Mitchell company since Paul Mitchell's death, which has caused many people to believe that Dejoria is Paul Mitchell.

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