An average movie

Like most of us, I was really impressed by ‘Borat’ which must be one of the funniest movies made in the last 10 years and, from then on, it seemed that Sacha Baron Cohen would become the next comedic genius. Then, he used the same trick for ‘Bruno’ and I thought it didn’t work that well this time. With this in mind, I tempered my expectations for his next feature, and this time, he made a smart move and decided to try something different , which was a more traditional comedy with a real plot and no semi-documentary shenanigans. Eventually, I thought it was not bad but nothing really amazing, I’m afraid. The point is that, even though the approach was different, the humor was still the same and I think I’m getting a little bit tired of his really crude jokes. Furthermore, the plot was not really amazing, it was basically a mix of ‘The Great Dictator’ and ‘The Emperor’s new groove’ with a rather underwhelming romance on top of that. Above all, only half of the jokes really worked, the other half was just really tedious. For example, the scene with John C. Reilly as a murderer/torturer was great and so was Cohen´s speech about ´What if America was a dictartorship?’ but the rest was hardly memorable. To conclude, even though it was only a slight improvement on ‘Bruno’, it remains a decent comedy and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10