Ali G Indahouse

Oh my god what a pathetic excuse for a movie this was.

I watched HBO's "Da Ali G Show" and it was hysterical. Then, last year, Sacha Baron Cohen came out with his Borat movie, and it was a pretty big success, so I figured, before I watch that one, let me check this one out, since it came out first.

Big mistake.

In the HBO show, Da Ali G is a journalist who conducts interviews with all sorts of people -- politicians, Nobel laureates, US Generals, entertainers, teachers, religious fanatics, and more.

The fact that these people actually fell for his gimmick and trickery is both unbelievable and outrageously funny, because he gets them to say things that no other journalist ever could.

It's also a testament to Baron Cohen's enormous comedic talents. He's pitch perfect in any one of the roles on his show, be it Ali G, Borat, or Bruno. He's a modern day Peter Sellers.

In this pile of crap, however, there's no reminder of the qualities that made the Ali G character so memorable, original, and funny.

The plot (a term employed here very loosely...): Ali G lives a delusional, empty, and lazy life, leading his three-people strong posse against a rival bunch of losers from his small English town.

Meanwhile, the Tories' approval rating is in a free fall and the Prime Minister is finally realizing that they'll lose the upcoming elections unless they can somehow fix their old-fashioned, conservative image, appearing hipper and more modern.

The PM's right hand solution is to have Ali G run for the Tory Party in his district, where he wins. What a shocker. Now a Member of Parliament, he proceeds to bring his flavor of foul language, childish jokes, and thorough dumbness to the institution, and obviously everyone falls for it, as if that's all they had been waiting for.

Then he finds out that he's been used all along and he has to find a way to get his white trash girlfriend back, save the PM, save his life, the country, etc...

Bored yet? At this point I have nothing left to add, confident that you can easily figure out the ending.

I'm sure nobody set out to remake "Citizen Kane," but still, they wasted a chance to do something funny and original with an established character and a talented actor.

Let this smelly turd alone and you'll do yourself a favor.

Grade: 2