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.

namashi_1 'Ali G Indahouse' works primarily due to Sacha Baron Cohen's Terrific Performance. The actor is truly hilarious in here, as he manages to pull-off the non-sense stuff with great style. 'Ali G Indahouse' Synopsis: Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the evil Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain.'Ali G Indahouse' is funny in parts, not in totality. Some jokes & gags, especially in the first-hour, are excellent & bring the house down. But, in the second-hour, the writing material loosens & doesn't quite register an impact. Sacha Baron Cohen & Dan Mazer's Screenplay works in parts, while Mark Mylod's Direction is fair.Sacha Baron Cohen's performance as Alistair "Ali G" Graham, is terrific & deserves special mention. The talented actor who delivered fantastic performances in films like 'Borat' & 'Brüno', proves his mettle yet again. Here's an actor who deserves a massive fan-following, due to his sheer talent. I would love to see more of him. Another performance that I truly liked in here, was by Martin Freeman, who scores as Ali G's best friend. On the whole, 'Ali G Indahouse' is a fair comedy. Watch it for Sacha Baron Cohen!

moviesleuth2 Sacha Baron Cohen is clearly a talented comedian. He is able to completely sink into the most ridiculous and obscene characters and completely break boundaries that most films only push lightly. Shock humor barely begins to describe Cohen's style. But while "Borat" was hysterical because it unashamedly tore apart parts of American culture that we'd rather not think about, "Ali G Indahouse" doesn't quite cut it.Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen) is a wannabe gangsta rapper who loves teaching kids at a community center about the gangsta lifestyle, but the center is losing money and is going to close. He goes to London to go on a hunger strike in protest, but at the same time, the Chancellor is planning on double-crossing the Prime Minister to get his job. To that end, he needs to have the Prime Minister hire a young, "in touch," person to fill a seat in Parliament, who will then fail and force the Prime Minister to resign. The chancellor sees Ali G, and immediately selects him for the role of the unknowing pawn. Needless to say, things don't go as planned."Ali G Indahouse" is a satire. It spoofs the public's concession about what is acceptable behavior in today's world while also making fun of politicians who despite showering the public with words and promises, are so clueless about what the people really want that they fail. The film allows Cohen to do what he does best, which is to act outrageously in places and situations where behavior must be kept under strict control. Yet, despite there being a few hilarious sequences, the film doesn't really work.Perhaps the reason why this film doesn't work is that there's actually a plot. In "Borat," Cohen let the character run wild and that was it. Here, Ali G is given a storyline, and maybe the film could have been better if the story was decent (which it isn't), but it closes the walls on the character, and Cohen's characters need as much room to breathe as possible.I've seen a few clips of Ali G, and he's just not as funny as Borat (I haven't seen "Bruno"). True, he can get us to laugh, but he's just an moron, instead of a man who is so clueless that he doesn't realize that his behavior is appalling, bordering on illegal. "Borat" was funny because only Cohen and the filmmakers were in on the joke. "Ali G Indahouse" doesn't have that luxury.The humor is very British, so if that's not your thing, it's another reason to skip this one.

James Hitchcock Alistair Leslie Graham ("Ali G") is a young man from Staines, a small suburban town to the west of London. The central joke of the film is that Ali is white, British, middle-class and lives in a quiet part of suburbia but tries to imitate what he believes to be the lifestyle and culture of working-class urban blacks, although his idea of black culture is a curious mixture of American inner-city gangsterism and Caribbean Rastafarianism. Ali's fast-talking dialect is a mixture of Jamaican patois and London street slang; the character is said to be based upon the white disc jockey Tim Westwood, who affects a Caribbean accent despite being the son of the Anglican Bishop of Peterborough.Ali G, of course, is a creation of the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, and existed well before this film was made, having appeared in various television programmes since 1998. (Another of Cohen's characters, the Kazakh journalist Borat, makes a brief appearance here). The format of "Ali G Indahouse" is different to that of Cohen's next film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan". That film is a spoof document in which Cohen tries to persuade real-life members of the public that Borat is a real person. Although in the original television programmes Cohen had tried to persuade people that Ali too was a real individual, often in spoof interviews with celebrities, he obviously realised that by 2002 the character was too well-known for such a format to work. The film, therefore, is simply a fictitious story with Ali at the centre.Ali and his gang ("Da West Staines Massiv") get involved in a campaign to prevent the closure of a local leisure centre and as a result are dragged into a murky political intrigue by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to supplant the Prime Minister; this plot line may reflect the difficult relationship between the then Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Chancellor Gordon Brown, often seen as plotting against Blair. As a result of this intrigue Ali is elected to Parliament in a by-election; the word "Indahouse" in the title is a corruption of "In the house", the house in question being the House of Commons. After various vicissitudes all ends happily and Ali's beloved leisure centre is saved."Ali G Indahouse" is not quite in the same class as the ""Borat" film, in which Cohen had some serious points to make behind all the vulgarity and the madness. The idea was to express outrageous views in order to shock people or to trick them into agreeing with him, and thereby to expose levels of racism and prejudice in the United States. There is nothing quite of this nature in the "Ali G" film; despite the political send-ups it is not really making any serious points about British politics. The political plot, in fact, is not really important. The film is really an excuse for a display of Sacha Baron Cohen's brand of humour, which can be an acquired taste. As in the "Borat" film, the humour on display here is often vulgar, crude and offensive - and often hilarious. Ali talks a lot about "respect" (or "restecp" as he spells it), but he doesn't have a lot of restecp for anyone, certainly not for the powerful or the pretentious, and punctures their pretensions with a series of devastating put-downs. (Most of his one-liners, alas, are too crude to quote here).The film is not for anyone easily offended by sexual, scatological or drug references, or for anyone holding to high standards of political correctness. (Ali habitually refers to women, including his girlfriend "Me Julie" as "hos" or "bitches" and to homosexuals as "batty boys"). For anyone else, however, there is a lot to laugh at. 6/10