Holy shit Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius, I've been waiting in dire anticipation for this movie to come out for two years, thinking he would incorporate his off brand scathing satire to a topic that has been gripping the world recently, namely the Arab Spring and its aftermath.....
Holy shit was I let down...
Now I'm hanging out at a friends house where I'm forced to watch this movie for a second time...and to add insult to injury for some reason he's laughing his ass off.
To quote one of my favorite movie critics, this movie runs like one long stupid drawn out SNL skit. All sorts of retarded middle school level slapstick humor, extremely lame crude sexual and scatological jokes that normally Cohen pulls off amazingly, but here they just seemed infantile.
It's full of half ass one-liners, and thinly veiled racism, because we're technically laugh
What particularly pissed me off is Sacha Baron Cohen proclaiming "I'm not even Arab" even though he's an uppity aristocratic British Jew and the movie is full of references to Arab-Israeli relations, Waladeen played by Cohen even "recreates" the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre in a mock video game.
The only funny line in the movie was when Cohen says to an African coworker "Hey subsaharan, get me 50 child soldiers here by midnight" "I've picked up Yiddish, who picks up yiddish?' "I"m on my own spiritual journey like eat, pray, love.", and finally "are you having a boy, or an abortion."
What made The Ali G Show on HBO particularly funny was people were duped into thinking that the interviews were real and that Ali G, Bruno, and Borat were authentic characters. Cohen has an extremely quick and reflexive wit, and the art of playing dumb is not nearly as it seems, it takes a particularly bright person to play a funny stupid one. In an interview with Cohen I read that it was quite an elaborate setup, Cohen would pretend to be part of the crew that sets up the TV set, he would carry boxes and benches etc., and then "randomly" start talking to the celeb, who was duped to think that this was a "pre-interview"
Holy shit was I let down...
Now I'm hanging out at a friends house where I'm forced to watch this movie for a second time...and to add insult to injury for some reason he's laughing his ass off.
To quote one of my favorite movie critics, this movie runs like one long stupid drawn out SNL skit. All sorts of retarded middle school level slapstick humor, extremely lame crude sexual and scatological jokes that normally Cohen pulls off amazingly, but here they just seemed infantile.
It's full of half ass one-liners, and thinly veiled racism, because we're technically laugh
What particularly pissed me off is Sacha Baron Cohen proclaiming "I'm not even Arab" even though he's an uppity aristocratic British Jew and the movie is full of references to Arab-Israeli relations, Waladeen played by Cohen even "recreates" the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre in a mock video game.
The only funny line in the movie was when Cohen says to an African coworker "Hey subsaharan, get me 50 child soldiers here by midnight" "I've picked up Yiddish, who picks up yiddish?' "I"m on my own spiritual journey like eat, pray, love.", and finally "are you having a boy, or an abortion."
What made The Ali G Show on HBO particularly funny was people were duped into thinking that the interviews were real and that Ali G, Bruno, and Borat were authentic characters. Cohen has an extremely quick and reflexive wit, and the art of playing dumb is not nearly as it seems, it takes a particularly bright person to play a funny stupid one. In an interview with Cohen I read that it was quite an elaborate setup, Cohen would pretend to be part of the crew that sets up the TV set, he would carry boxes and benches etc., and then "randomly" start talking to the celeb, who was duped to think that this was a "pre-interview"
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