Plot: General Admiral Whatever Aladeen, a dictator in some African nation visits America for the first time.
I only remember the face of Ali G, Borat's trailer caught my interest but I haven't seen it yet and Bruno just passed by me. Soooooo this is actually my first Sacha Baron Cohen movie and my expectations were like: smart satire & a funny overuse of racial humor. Boy was I disappointed! First of all let me point out that I'm not easily offended by this type of humor. "Offensive" humor here didn't actually try to offend but to satire and besides that, if a joke is a good joke, then I can tolerate almost anything
So why didn't I like it? Well, let me steal, (and slightly change), a Bill Maher's phrase Because I'm not a 6-year old who giggles when I see pee pee parts!!! 50% of the jokes were way too immature to be regarded as satire. Some examples: #1 Woman battles with Aladeen by using her ginormous breasts #2 Aladeen crashes into a window and his tiny penis sticks out scaring a woman #3 Aladeen loses his mobile inside a vagina and has to talk through it. OK, so these are the more "slapstic"-style ones, what about the more "sophisticated" and satiric ones? Well, it makes fun of racial stereotypes and all kinds of fundamentalists but everything is somewhat boring, predictable and just not funny or smart at ALL! If you like the movie's humor though, you are in for a treat because what it lacks in quality it gains in quantity since you will literary hear a joke every 15 seconds.
But now my main complain. Most people know that when it comes to humor everything revolves around the HOW. It's how you tell a joke and not which joke and S. B. Cohen is –for me- a terrible comedian. The rest of the crew and especially Mantzoukas, Reilly and Lee have done a great job and probably play in the best scenes of the movie, however even this guys couldn't save us from this disaster. Bad movie? Nuh more like a "meh" one. It has its moments and the pacing won't make you want to slit your wrists. But that's not enough for me.
FINAL VERDICT: Simplistic humor & a worthless attempt at satire (3.5/10)
Also Check: Borat (2006) - The Campaign (2012) - Zoolander (2001)
I only remember the face of Ali G, Borat's trailer caught my interest but I haven't seen it yet and Bruno just passed by me. Soooooo this is actually my first Sacha Baron Cohen movie and my expectations were like: smart satire & a funny overuse of racial humor. Boy was I disappointed! First of all let me point out that I'm not easily offended by this type of humor. "Offensive" humor here didn't actually try to offend but to satire and besides that, if a joke is a good joke, then I can tolerate almost anything
So why didn't I like it? Well, let me steal, (and slightly change), a Bill Maher's phrase Because I'm not a 6-year old who giggles when I see pee pee parts!!! 50% of the jokes were way too immature to be regarded as satire. Some examples: #1 Woman battles with Aladeen by using her ginormous breasts #2 Aladeen crashes into a window and his tiny penis sticks out scaring a woman #3 Aladeen loses his mobile inside a vagina and has to talk through it. OK, so these are the more "slapstic"-style ones, what about the more "sophisticated" and satiric ones? Well, it makes fun of racial stereotypes and all kinds of fundamentalists but everything is somewhat boring, predictable and just not funny or smart at ALL! If you like the movie's humor though, you are in for a treat because what it lacks in quality it gains in quantity since you will literary hear a joke every 15 seconds.
But now my main complain. Most people know that when it comes to humor everything revolves around the HOW. It's how you tell a joke and not which joke and S. B. Cohen is –for me- a terrible comedian. The rest of the crew and especially Mantzoukas, Reilly and Lee have done a great job and probably play in the best scenes of the movie, however even this guys couldn't save us from this disaster. Bad movie? Nuh more like a "meh" one. It has its moments and the pacing won't make you want to slit your wrists. But that's not enough for me.
FINAL VERDICT: Simplistic humor & a worthless attempt at satire (3.5/10)
Also Check: Borat (2006) - The Campaign (2012) - Zoolander (2001)