PLANET SICK-BOY: http://www.sick-boy.com "We Put the SIN in Cinema"
© Copyright 2004 Planet Sick-Boy. All Rights Reserved.
Released in the UK before his critically lauded HBO show, Sasha Baron Cohen's Ali G Indahouse is now available on video/DVD after bypassing theatres in North America. Ali G, in case you aren't familiar with the show, is one of three characters Cohen portrays in a drop-dead hysterical form of ambush comedy that is more intelligent than Tom Green, and makes The Tonight Show's "Jaywalking" segments seem as original as a phony phone call about running refrigerators. A "wigger" from West Staines, the dimwitted Ali G is all about dope, pussy and drive-by shootings, even though the former is the only he has access to on a regular basis.
Indahouse plays like a cross between Spice World (a hastily-produced UK-based money grabber full of stars who should have known better) and Malibu's Most Wanted (another crazy wigger adventure spun off from a television character), only much funnier. Just not nearly as funny as Cohen 's show, sadly.
The plot? You're almost better off not knowing. Somehow, Ali G becomes the right hand man to the British Prime Minister (Michael Gambon, Harry Potter), and inadvertently provides the PM's biggest rival (Charles Dance) with enough damaging information to lead a coup at 10 Downing Street. There isn't much more to it than that, though it is held together with a number of strong set pieces revolving around.dope, pussy and drive-by shootings. Recommended only for fans of Da Ali G Show.
========== X-RAMR-ID: 39027 X-Language: en X-RT-ReviewID: 1339088 X-RT-TitleID: 1136597 X-RT-SourceID: 595 X-RT-AuthorID: 1146 X-RT-RatingText: 5/10
The review above was posted to the
rec.arts.movies.reviews newsgroup (de.rec.film.kritiken for German reviews).
The Internet Movie Database accepts no responsibility for the contents of the
review and has no editorial control. Unless stated otherwise, the copyright
belongs to the author.
Please direct comments/criticisms of the review to relevant newsgroups.
Broken URLs inthe reviews are the responsibility of the author.
The formatting of the review is likely to differ from the original due
to ASCII to HTML conversion.
Related links: index of all rec.arts.movies.reviews reviews