ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Wordiezett So much average

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

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.

hwadkins 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.

RainDogJr The very first time I saw Sacha Baron Cohen's character Ali G (the ultimate wigger!) was in the Madonna music video of her song "Music", a video that was on MTV countless times every day (back in the day when I watched MTV) and in which Ali G is Madonna's driver. When I saw on the big screen what I think is the funniest film of 2006 (and probably of the decade so far, brilliant film!), Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, I didn't knew a thing about Sacha Baron Cohen and it was until later when I knew about Da Ali G Show but still as for today I, sadly, have seen only a bit of that show. Of course I have as much desires to see more of Da Ali G Show (can't wait to get the DVDs!), as I have to see the third film based on a Cohen's character from Da Ali G Show and second Sacha Baron Cohen/Larry Charles (Larry Charles' Religulous is another of my most- wanted films) collaboration Brüno. But anyway, and about this film, Ali G Indahouse (directed not by L. Charles but by Mark Mylod and released in 2002), well not long ago I saw parts of it but until yesterday I saw it for the very time entirely (last week I got finally its R4 DVD). And one of the parts that I had seen before yesterday is when Ali G meets Borat (they don't really like each other!). I have never seen Borat stuff from Da Ali G Show but here in this film is clear that this character of Cohen was still not totally polished, you know he sounds different. Like I said, I haven't seen much of Da Ali G Show but I'm pretty much it was in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan when Cohen reached his top (my prediction is that Brüno will be as hilarious as Borat but I don't think it will be more hilarious but who knows, can't wait!), by comparing "his" two feature films there's no doubt that Cohen learned, in 2006 he gave the audience the home run but certainly a double ain't that bad, right?And yes, for me Ali G Indahouse is mostly like a double but sometimes it's actually like a triple yet sometimes like a single but never less than a hit (for sure it deserves a much better IMDb user rating than a 5.9/10). As I think you already know, this is fiction in its entirely and it's quite a typical film: Ali G becoming a politician, is typical stuff with the evil one of the film (played by Charles Dance) choosing Ali G as a candidate for his own benefit obviously only to find out that his plan will not be really successful at first and when he finally gets what he wanted Ali G and pals are ready to kick his butt (not really literally, you know Ali G is only a complete badass in his dreams!). Cohen is simply great, this one was sort of my introduction to his character Ali G (I clearly remember the bit I saw of Da Ali G Show was with Brüno in a beach) and I'm a fan. And well for sure it's easily better than Harry Potter! ("If you is watching this, Potter, I is better than you. You probably ain't even slept with a girl"). Respect.R4 DVD extras: commentary by Ali G and Ricky C (!), "Video Diary" (hilarious, see how Ali G needs tons of makeup to become a white man!), "Talking the Talk" ("this bit is for people of countries where they don't speak English…like Scotland." Funny stuff, learning to speak real English like Ali G: "I's Ali G, the dominatin' MC Making bitches touch their punani" = "Hello, my name is Ali G, your master of ceremonies encouraging females to manually stimulate their pudenda"), photo gallery, trailer, teaser trailer-Ali and teaser trailer-Tupac.

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.