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

Other mistake: When Zohan/Scrappy Coco is watching the "Phantom Muchantuchan" on YouTube, half way through the video bar goes back to the beginning and then goes back to where it was.

simonr

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

Other mistake: When Zohan and the Phantom are comparing shoes while fighting the enemies, Zohan has two different trouser colors on his legs.

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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

Deliberate mistake: When Zohan and Phantom are seen on the Palestine beach competing about which one is the tougher, they let themselves get bitten by a piranha to prove their point. While piranha are by legend very vicious fish, its presence here is a two-fold mistake, for a) piranhas are found in South America, and b) they are fresh water fish. (I know that this is for pure humour, but the writers should have picked a rabid crab or something; that would be more appropriate for the setting.).

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

Zohan: I just want to make people silky-smooth!

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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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