Like the priest said to the altar boy – all good things must come to an end, and so for now has Sacha Baron Cohen’s run of mockumentary capers. The gangly Brit’s unusual mix of high brow/low brow “scatirical ” humor, made popular by Borat, suffered diminished returns in 2009′s Bruno (turns out that laughing at the ignorance of rednecks is funny the first few times but sad and mean after the ninth and tenth). The main problem with Bruno was that Baron Cohen had become too famous to go incognito, making any attempt at ambushing unsuspecting foils much more difficult. So now he has returned to the unsuccessful territory of his first feature, Ali G Indahouse, scripted comedy. The Ali G movie had it’s moments but in the absence of Baron Cohen’s anarchic, anything can happen TV stunts, was ultimately toothless. Unfortunately the same can be said of The Dictator.
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