For me, filthy films are not my normal cup of tea, nevertheless I did enjoy this but I need a long shower after watching it.Vijayashanti (born 24 June 1966) is an Indian actress, producer and politician. So if you have no guilty conscience, welcome vulgarity and all things "un-pc" with open arms, do not despise Sacha Cohen Baron and are willing to kiss his armpits (last one is optional), then I reckon you will enjoy this film. Alas, it seems vulgarity is more favoured. There are a couple of moments political satire that stands out in hilarity and I wish there was more of it. And then there are a few special cameo celebrity guest appearances (or victims, rather) sprinkled around. John C Reilly also gives a short but hilarious turn. A good supporting cast thankfully gives this zany film a little bit more variety, particularly Anna Francis, comically playing off the Dictator's character who frankly dominates almost every frame (as I guess a dictator would). However, Sacha's Dictator has pretty much the same political correctness that Borat has but with more hilarious Dictatorship cravings such as executing anyone that annoys him. This film, however is purely fictitious, Naked Gun style comedy very much similar to Eddie Murphy's Coming to America with obviously a lot lot less subtlety. With those previous films, real people are sought after and ridiculed by scrutinising their reactions and moral bases. This is a departure from the Borat, Ali G, and Bruno stable. Another burning question I ask myself, while watching this is do I feel guilty laughing at some of the offencive jokes? Yes I do, my guilty conscience raises its ugly head but then I realise (or perhaps I'm just making excuses) that I am laughing at the Dictator's naivety and hilarious sense of misplaced morality while others around him frown at his demeanours. There are enough roll in the isle moments to make this worth the ticket but there are also plenty of misfired jokes too, some of which really makes you groan but that's to be expected for a relentless joke firing machine which incidentally has (perhaps mercifully) a short run time of 84mins. The important question is, though, is it funny? Yeah.mostly. I don't know how the hell he gets away with it. No one, including white folks and straight men. Sacha gets away with it because no one is left out. As expected from Sacha's previous outings and trailers, this film is in extremely bad taste with plenty of filth, blatant offence (disguised as naivety) of every race, gender, age, animal, disability, sexual orientations, terrorism and politics. I saw a preview screening of this in London.
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