Ali G Indahouse (2002)
Directed by Mark Mylod
Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the evil Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, instead of bringing the Prime Minister down, Ali is embraced by the nation as the voice of youth and 'realness', making the Prime Minister and his government more popular than ever.
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Directed by Larry Charles
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Unlike the movie version of Ali G (Ali G Indahouse) which abandoned Ali G's formula in favor of a lame, scripted adventure; Borat sticks with what made the character so great to begin with, and only amps things up by wrapping Borat's short collisions with random Americans into a single cohesive story with plot-driving scenes shot using actors.
That Ali G Indahouse is ultimately revealed to be a cliched and somewhat tedious comedy doesn't come as much of a surprise, given the one-note nature of the character that inspired it.
Shock comedian Sacha Baron Cohen may have exhausted his collection of tried-and-true characters that he developed on his acclaimed "Da Ali G Show" and brought to the big screen with varying results in such vehicles as the barely remembered "Ali G Indahouse ," the amusing-if-overrated international smash "Borat" and the simply awful "Bruno" but to judge from his latest effort, "The Dictator," he hasn't retired either his basic schtick or, in several circumstances, the jokes themselves.
Sacha Baron Cohen's film career got off to a rocky start with Ali G Indahouse , but since the box office success of Borat in 2006 the Brit comic hasn't looked back.
Between this and the infantile "Ali G Indahouse" (2002), it's clear the star is most amusing when allowed to go off-script.
Unlike Ali G Indahouse , Baron Cohen’s failed attempt to bring his most famous character into an entirely fictional universe, Borat found the comic tension in placing his Kazakhstani buffoon in delicate social situations, like a rodeo where he supports the “War Of Terror” a bit too zealously.
However, for his fourth character-based film, he's opted out of that approach and reverted to the fiction format of his debut, the now rather quaint Ali G indahouse.