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The Dictator
Directed by
Larry Charles
Produced by Scott Rudin, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, Anthony Hines, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer, and Todd Schulman
Written by Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, and David Mandel
Produced by Scott Rudin, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, Anthony Hines, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer, and Todd Schulman
Written by Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, and David Mandel
With:
Sacha Baron Cohen, Sayed Badreya, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, Jason Mantzoukas, John C. Reilly, Adeel Akhtar, Fred Armisen, Edward Norton, Megan Fox, Garry Shandling, Chris Parnell, Fred Melamed, Kevin Corrigan, and Kathryn Hahn
Cinematography:
Lawrence Sher
Editing: Greg Hayden and Eric Kissack
Music: Erran Baron Cohen
Editing: Greg Hayden and Eric Kissack
Music: Erran Baron Cohen
Runtime:
83 min
Release Date: 16 May 2012
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 16 May 2012
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color
Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles’ follow up to Borat and Bruno is a much more traditional narrative comedy rather than their usual fake-documentary. There are a lot of laughs in the film but its SOOOO sloppy--too sloppy for me to like. It also lacks any shock value so the humor just comes off as crass and occasionally cruel. These are really all the same jokes as in Borat and Bruno and the same production standard, its funny, but it gets less and less funny each time out. What Cohen does as Borat, Bruno and Ali G is expose stupid people and their stupid attitudes--there is truth in that. As the Dictator he is just acting stupid and it makes one feel kind of stupid for laughing at it.