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a little singing, a little dancing, a lot of hummus.
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A musical comedy set in the fast-paced, fast-food world of competing falafel stands on the West Bank...
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Won Oscar.
Another 5 wins
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Tactless musical satire sinks fast.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ben Newmark | ... | David |
 | Noureen DeWulf | ... | Fatima |
 | A.J. Tannen | ... | Ariel |
 | Joey Naber | ... | Ahmed |
 | Haguy Wigdor | ... | Ruvik |
 | Oren Rehany | ... | Uri |
 | Nicholas Massouh | ... | Mustafa |
 | Will Greenberg | ... | Shlomo |
| Sharif Abrams | ... | Mahmoud / Masked Palestinian |
| Daniella Diezba | ... | Ludmila |
| Keith Lal | ... | Mohammed |
 | Assaf Cohen | ... | Menorah Mickey |
| Raymond Del Barrio | ... | Bruce |
 | Anthony Shams | ... | Palestinian Costumer |
| Roger Marks | ... | Israeli Customer |
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21 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Dolby SR (Digital)
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Ahmed:
Your side of the screen is encroaching on my side of the screen.
Ariel: No. You are clearly tainting my side of the screen.
Ahmed: Excuse me? Its *my* side of the screen!
Ahmed, Ariel: [simultaneously] You back up and start listening to me! You're *clearly* tainting my side of the screen!
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Ariel: No. You are clearly tainting my side of the screen.
Ahmed: Excuse me? Its *my* side of the screen!
Ahmed, Ariel: [simultaneously] You back up and start listening to me! You're *clearly* tainting my side of the screen!
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Spoofs Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
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This smug short subject Oscar winner made in the US is a clumsy piece of heavy handed satire that borders on being downright offensive. Lacking in wit or originality the film parodies West Side Story in the comic environment of the Palestinian Israeli conflict (see Paradise Now). Both Jews and Palestinians are reduced to buffoons as they battle for fast food supremacy from their respective eateries Kosher King and The Hummus Hut.
Director Ari Sandel's less than inspired idea degrades even more upon fruition as he turns his characters into arch cliché (Menorah Mickey?)and seething ignoramus, wearing funny hats, singing to camels and joking about suicide bombers. The choreography is lack lustre and the parody side of the music score falls flat on its face. West Side Story is filled with identifiable melodies and ripe for satirical lyrics but Bank doesn't employ them and the concept defeats itself. The slapstick, broad and over the top (ululating cashier firing an AK 47 into the ceiling as well as a fiddler on the roof) completes this sweeping failure of a satire that is overlong at twenty minutes. It's condescension is only surpassed by it's artistic ineptitude.