All that you see in the trailers are in the first 15 minutes and that is the best part (and even the scenes in the trailer aren't exactly the same in the film). Once he meets Anna Farris and is mingling with new yorkers,the film goes downhill. Sure it has an ocassional good joke here and there, but not enough to save it from being called a turkey. 3/10
I've loved just about everything Sacha Cohen has put out, but i was never interested in this movie. I didn't even find the trailers funny. (where normally the best stuff is) I may grab a torrent when i come across one but even then it will probably sit in my downloads folder for a while.
the movie was very funny, the trailer DOES NOT show the best parts, panchy just has some sort of agenda. I give it a solid 7/10, a good comedy. I felt the same way whiskey, the trailer did nothing for me, but the movie was actuually good.
I liked it. It wasn't great, but I laughed. It was more Hollywood than his other work, too much formula. It was funny though.
IMO, the last movie Cohen will ever do. Nothing special, it happens to pretty much every comedian - he needs to move onto something fresh...
I never liked anything this guy did. Although I admit seeing his first Borat film against my will I did laugh, it's not the kind of comedy I go looking for. I passed on the sequel and unfortunately my girlfriend wants to see this one so expect a negative low scoring review sometime in the near future.
I cannot honestly recommend this film. What was best after the first fifteen minutes? that kind of plot formula has been done many times before and Cohen did not added anything new nor amusing to it. I can give BORAT a solid seven, but this one I was being generous with the a three score and that is mainly because I like Anna Farris in any role she plays.
I laugh out loud a few times...Of course it's not as good as Borat....but still very solid funny comedy. 6.5/10 General Aladeen: Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1% of the people have all the nation's wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes. And bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests. General Aladeen: You seem educated. Zoey: Yes, I went to Amherst. General Aladeen: I love it when women go to school. It's like seeing a monkey on rollerskates. It means nothing to them, but it's so adorable for us.
Got to admit, after initially watching this film I first felt that it was like Borat, a steaming pile of unwatchable garbage that made me laugh hard a couple times but otherwise not worth the trouble. But after constantly going over certain scenes again and remembering how funny they were, I realized not only did I enjoy The Dictator but that I want to see it again. It was very funny and I was dead wrong about it, even after seeing the trailer. So far The Dictator and The Three Stooges are the surprise comedy films of 2012.
:: The "misogynistic" parts were some of the funniest parts of the movie imo. Aladeen: "Are you going to have a boy or an abortion?"
