Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

PeterMitchell-506-564364 I remember just before Christmas 2001, I was up late with my dad watching this show he recommended to me, Da Al G Show. After three or four minutes, I was in titers and guffaws "Who the F is this guy". Well he's the name wave comedian of the millennium. Sasha Baren Cohen, who's not just funny as hell, but has great insight in to subjects that come through in his scripts, where he takes so many so many digs at stuff, some stuff that ought to be dissed. The following year, this movie came out. Though really wanting to see it, "Oh, I wait till it's comes out on DVD", and it did in the four months that ensued. I should of gone to see it at the cinema, for this is such funny stuff, only the first in a series of Cohen classics, you could never tired of watching it, where those same funny moments, would still have you kicking yourself, you wouldn't find it less funny. The film too, has a good, if original story. Ali G is such a character you can't hate, and too, like many of us, lives off the dole. His dog really likes to get intimate under the sheets, where Ali: Alistair likes to have sexy dreams, where may'be we see a little bit more of this guy when we should, when his johnson dangles out, whilst in the middle of a shootout, Ali, heavily outnumbered. He teaches kids stuff about self improvement, at the John Mikey Leisure centre, where kids get badges for majoring in advanced swearing. Only now the centre is about to be closed down, where Ali, demonstrates his disapproval in another hilarious uproariously funny scene. Suddenly luck turns his way, while again revealing too much of his anatomy, where he's used as a pawn to overthrow a Governor (Gambon, great) by an evil political adversary, wonderfully played by Charles Dance, who can pack a few punches as seen near the film's end. In return, Ali may just be able to save his centre. And they way Ali tries to get votes, is just another series of funny scenes, where if you don't vote, you may want to check out your letter box. Ali G's girl is a nurse, who really hasn't got a problem with one of her colleagues either. And we have a misunderstood conversation by Gambon and another political party. Highly funny, vulgar and crass in parts, hey that Cohen's trademark, Ali G Indahouse, is essential viewing for comedy fans, or lovers of Cohen's films, where if they've seen the other ones, and haven't seen this, this one finishes the picture perfectly, and delivers at the same level of laughs. Hey, who wouldn't want to see Dance in a woman's leopard outfit and having to be made Ali's bitch.

aadc1 Perfect parody of the hip hop scene! Rating 10I am surprised, as I used to ignore this movie for a long time. After seeing the movie "Borat" and "Brüno" from Mister Sacha Baron Cohen I was looking for more good stuff with the same quality and from the same source and did not get disappointed.As most people I hate the stupid analphabetic low end hip hop monkeys, which are unable to articulate themselves in an understandable way.But here comes the exception to the rule and it is named Ali G! I will check out later the TV series of Ali G and let you know.In the movie you recognized a lot of elements of scenes, which in the later movies are repeated in a different and equal funny or even funnier way.So, the message to all the wanna be hip hoppers out there is: Check this and take it as an example of how to score among the people.

Chrysanthepop '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.

johnnyboyz What we have in Ali G Indahouse is actually a rather cynical film; a needless and low-brow attempt to cash in on the success of what was a relatively funny television show, a television show that tried to insert a certain energy or 'updating' of interview shows of old; a breath new life into what had essentially become either old men in suits sitting around talking to one another or young adults nattering about on post-modern looking sofas early on Saturday mornings, trying to inform the youth of the time about current music and popular culture - but really just acting as a means to 'tell' the kids what to like. While Ali G's interview with the Beckhams remains one of the funniest pieces of television I think I've ever seen, the transition from screen to screen in this case does not go well at all.The most obvious and most striking difference is the placing of the character of Ali G in the 'real' world, by bringing him out of this television personality persona and inserting him into a part of England in which he must live normally and interact with those around him accordingly. The formula that was not broken on television has been fixed for the cinema, it would seem. On the TV, Ali G (played by Sacha Baron Cohen), is a rude and crude TV personality that dresses extravagantly and pokes fun at casual drug use, homophobia and certain parts of the female body. In the film, he goes the whole distance and exhausts jokes about these things to the point he runs out of ideas and has to revert to out-and-out racism; sexism and jokes about bestiality – all in the name of a runtime.Baron Cohen essentially casts himself as this misunderstood and budding political genius of a man that unwittingly enters politics and ends up revolutionising it anyway. Initially, he is accompanied by Michael Gambon and Charles Dance, two actors that were roped into this by God only knows how. Ali works at a local leisure centre, teaching young kids how to present themselves and act, thus trying to transform them into the louts of the future. These are quite sickening passages of film that hinge on the fact we might find young kids swearing relatively amusing. But Ali has another close knit group of individuals, in the form of Ricky C (Freeman) and Dave (Way), two people that make up his Staines posse. What is on the surface, a stereotypical jab at a 'chav' archetype when antagonism with another gang arises, is essentially Caucasian people mimicking African American gangs in body language and voices while acting out and thus trivialising gang violence, particularly when the fact there's a possibility one member might get shot for wearing the wrong 'colours'.What with the leisure centre closing down, Ali takes it upon himself to enter a bi-election in order to save it when he is spotted by Charles Dance's David Carlton during a hunger strike that is additionally used as a means of meek humour. As his off-beat ideas and erratic approach to everything draws more and more attention to himself, Ali becomes embedded deeper into the world of politics and corruption, culminating in a dastardly plot to demolish his home of Staines for sake of construction work. Is Ali G Indahouse supposed to acts as some sort of statement on how easy it is to get into politics within our contemporary world - with promises of big and erratic ideas while systematically fooling everyone? Is it some sort of look at the corruption that supposedly goes on in politics – the battle or struggle for power? I don't think it is, but if someone were to credit it with these accolades, I have a feeling the film-makers would more than likely snap it up.The film is empty-headed and offensive in ways that doesn't see it deliberately attack certain groups, but just runs so quickly out of ideas that it needs to resort to barrages of grotesque and offensive humour. Like Ali G in one scene during his television interview with another party member, the debate goes on for a while before our lead just resorts to 'out of thin air' accusations and insults that further drive the piece. If you are a healthy; white; heterosexual male between the ages of 18 and 30 and are in relatively good shape but without much of a brain, then chances are you won't be offended - which means you'll probably laugh. For anybody else, the film is an ordeal – you might loose count of the number of people the film should offend: from overweight people; to Thais; to people that might actually live in Staines.Bizarrely, the film feels it can change tack at absolute will. The pastiche of contemporary youth in the form of young males, influenced by contemporary African-American culture, is long gone by the time we're meant to believe Ali G goes on some kind of realisation odyssey and learns that his 'Julie' (Bright) is the right girl for him rather than skimpy, seductive secretary Kate Hedges (Mitra). We're not buying it, and the film has no right to peel off into this realm of emotion, epiphany and heart-ache amidst all these jokes about the size of phallus' and fellatio with a horse – it's absurd. If we are to place it in a canon of recent, low-brow British comedies; it's probably a mite better than Sex Lives of the Potato Men but slightly worse than Kevin and Perry Go Large. Essentially, this is the best you can say about the film.