This movie is pretty funny at times, but it's a bit just too conventional for Cohen and it's not very well directed. The jokes should be funnier, the comic timing is off (early in the film especially), and the grossness veers into Adam Sandler land. Actually, that's a bit of an insult to Adam Sandler since You Don't Mess With the Zohan is not only funnier than this film, but as a satire Zohan is maybe more mature and politically pointed.
Sacha Baron Cohen is a brilliant guy, but this film is rather middling and comes off as kind of rushed. The jokes sometimes work, but sometimes they seem like they were probably funnier on paper. Other things are just kind of head-scratching (like the perverted ambassador from China; now a perverted IMF boss from France would have been funny).
Worth seeing but maybe save your money and get it on Netflix. Speaking of Netflix, better movies along the same lines are Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator and Woody Allen's Bananas. Those are really funny and very unique films about "dictators". The Dictator has its moments, but I guess I expected more from SBC.
Sacha Baron Cohen is a brilliant guy, but this film is rather middling and comes off as kind of rushed. The jokes sometimes work, but sometimes they seem like they were probably funnier on paper. Other things are just kind of head-scratching (like the perverted ambassador from China; now a perverted IMF boss from France would have been funny).
Worth seeing but maybe save your money and get it on Netflix. Speaking of Netflix, better movies along the same lines are Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator and Woody Allen's Bananas. Those are really funny and very unique films about "dictators". The Dictator has its moments, but I guess I expected more from SBC.