Awesome Movie

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

'Ali G Indahouse' is the first movie of Sacha Baron Cohen's trilogy that was followed by 'Borat' and then 'Bruno'. All three characters originated from Cohen's 'The Ali G Show' and thus, crude and vulgar humour is expected and this kind of humour isn't suitable for all. I found the humour of 'Ali G Indahouse' to be much less crude compared to the followup films. Expectedly, it's a silly movie with a predictable story but entertaining nonetheless. The execution is adequate and the writing a tad nonsensical but most of the jokes work. While actors like Michael Gambon, Charles Dance and Rhona Mitra are left with cliché roles, Sacha Baron Cohen steals the show obviously. Martin Freeman stands out as his homosexual sidekick. Of the three films, I prefer 'Bruno' because of the original story while 'Borat' is the least favourite. I wonder what Cohen has installed next.

This film is one of those few films that really...should never see the light of day, its so politically incorrect its stupid (if we compare to Sacha Baron Cohens other films, its not so bad - however i don't like the follow ups so there you go) anyway, i like to compare this film to a car crash....you shouldn't look....but you do anyway...then you know you should look away...but you just cant do it! You have to watch to the end just to see if the hapless Ali G does manage to save Staines (where i live btw, and yes, it is that much of a hole). Not a bad film, not the best film, funny in a 'im drunk and need to watch something silly' way.

Bet Charles Dance has never in his career said anything remotely like: "Is there any reason why there should be an absurdly dressed half-naked man chained to a fence being tossed off by an old blind council worker?" The half-naked man is hip hop defender of the Westside Massive turf of Staines, west of London, Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen), chained to a government building on a hunger strike (which he has just broken by nibbling on a KFC chicken tender). A rival gang leader has taken advantage of him and pulled his pants down. Whereupon a blind council worker polishing the fence is also unknowingly polishing Ali's knob. If you haven't guessed yet, ALI G INDAHOUSE is not the type of girl you take home to mama.Buoyed by the success of his criminally funny DA ALI G SHOW (where Cohen perfected the art of catching people off guard with his naive, ambiguously-wigga Ali G, using their ignorance of his parodied character against them), Cohen ambitiously ramps Ali G into movie format. Which is a big up for Cohen, but not so formidable a career move for Ali G.ALI G INDAHOUSE works more often than it doesn't. The cultural gap is not so much to blame as the aura that Cohen has built around his fake celebrity hip hopster. We are used to seeing him blindsiding real life celebrities and officials, whereas here, too many people are in on the gag.That is, we know everyone Ali G interacts with is in concert creating a "comedy" - even those people who seem oblivious to his shtick, like the Prime Minister (Michael Gambon). The movie works best when Ali can riff without too much involvement with the other cast, ironically, his own ignorance creating the humor this time.Charles Dance is Deputy Prime Minister, David Carlton (aided by perfect-9 hardbody Rhona Mitra), who fixes Ali's election into Parliament, to be the Prime Minister's adviser on gaining the youth demographic, knowing full well Ali would embarrass the Prime Minister out of office, thereby setting the stage for him to be elected PM himself. His plan works all too well, when Ali's forthright stance on "keeping it real" only skyrockets the PM's popularity.Ali's girlfriend is "Me Julie" (Kellie Bright); his posse mate, Martin Freeman (best known from Ricky Gervais's THE OFFICE), who pulls off some fine jamming for a white boy.Drug gags, sex gags, scat gags, hip hop gags, gags that fall absolutely flat and gags that fly, ALI G INDAHOUSE is an uneven potpourri of throwing everything this character has against the wall and not caring whether it sticks or not; like a British version of POOTIE TANG (2001) - absurdist comedy about a street thug rising to prominence to battle the establishment.The message that politicians are either stupid or crooked is nothing new, and director Mark Mylod, with writers Cohen and Dan Mazer, traverse no new ground imparting that message, which Ali spells out quite literally: "R.E.S.T.E.C.P! Do ya even know wha it spellz? Yes, Restecp. 'How's anyone out there meant to restecp each other, if you lot in here, don't even start restecpa-ing one another?" Unfortunately, Ali's character does not remain the resolute, clueless renegade. It is disappointing that the film gives him a "respectable" arc - he is made Ambassador to Jamaica (the wicked pot being a bonus, of course) and goes from being a drug-addled misogynist to a Parliamentary drug-addled misogynist...Now that's Restecp.

Sacha Baron Cohen is clearly a talented comedian. He is able to completely sink into the most ridiculous and obscene characters and completely break boundaries that most films only push lightly. Shock humor barely begins to describe Cohen's style. But while "Borat" was hysterical because it unashamedly tore apart parts of American culture that we'd rather not think about, "Ali G Indahouse" doesn't quite cut it.Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen) is a wannabe gangsta rapper who loves teaching kids at a community center about the gangsta lifestyle, but the center is losing money and is going to close. He goes to London to go on a hunger strike in protest, but at the same time, the Chancellor is planning on double-crossing the Prime Minister to get his job. To that end, he needs to have the Prime Minister hire a young, "in touch," person to fill a seat in Parliament, who will then fail and force the Prime Minister to resign. The chancellor sees Ali G, and immediately selects him for the role of the unknowing pawn. Needless to say, things don't go as planned."Ali G Indahouse" is a satire. It spoofs the public's concession about what is acceptable behavior in today's world while also making fun of politicians who despite showering the public with words and promises, are so clueless about what the people really want that they fail. The film allows Cohen to do what he does best, which is to act outrageously in places and situations where behavior must be kept under strict control. Yet, despite there being a few hilarious sequences, the film doesn't really work.Perhaps the reason why this film doesn't work is that there's actually a plot. In "Borat," Cohen let the character run wild and that was it. Here, Ali G is given a storyline, and maybe the film could have been better if the story was decent (which it isn't), but it closes the walls on the character, and Cohen's characters need as much room to breathe as possible.I've seen a few clips of Ali G, and he's just not as funny as Borat (I haven't seen "Bruno"). True, he can get us to laugh, but he's just an moron, instead of a man who is so clueless that he doesn't realize that his behavior is appalling, bordering on illegal. "Borat" was funny because only Cohen and the filmmakers were in on the joke. "Ali G Indahouse" doesn't have that luxury.The humor is very British, so if that's not your thing, it's another reason to skip this one.