Great Film overall

Expected more

Captivating movie !

Best movie ever!

Sacha Baren Cohen has created a masterpiece that will be loved by audiences all across the globe! The film has some great one liners that will keep you laughing until it hurts. I have the film on DVD and have watched it at least 10 times, and it never seems to get old! It is quite cringe-worthy in some places but that's what makes ALI G so lovable and this film so brilliant. This is outlined in how it grossed over 10 times its budget and the music in this movie is just brilliant too! This, along with Borat are Sacha's best works and he deserves all the credit that comes his way. The girls aren't have bad in the movie and the films all round display should be admired!

Before there was Borat, there was Ali G.Released in 2002, "Ali G Indahouse" was the first of three films featuring the three characters from Sacha Baron Cohen's TV series, "Da Ali G Show"--the other two films being 2006's "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" and 2009's "Brüno." Unlike the latter two films, which used the unscripted man-on- the-street format of the TV show, "Ali G Indahouse" suffers from using a script.The story is mostly contrived. Alistair Leslie Graham, who goes by his wannabe name, Ali G, is a white kid from the London suburb of Staines who wants desperately to be black. He lives with his grandma and has a girlfriend he calls Me Julie. When the government threatens to close down the center where he teaches a group of boy scouts how to be gangstas (scenes of wasted comedic potential), Ali G goes on a hunger strike outside Parliament to protest. The hunger strike quickly ends when the reporters covering the event tempt him with some KFC. Ali G is then recruited by a conniving Member of Parliament, David Carlton, to run for the representative from Staines. Carlton's plan is for Ali G to fail miserably, embarrassing the Prime Minister (Michael Gambon, Dumbledore from all but the first two Harry Potter films), causing the PM to be ousted in a no-confidence vote, clearing the way for Carlton to become PM. Contrary to Carlton's plans, however, Ali G proves to be wildly popular by "keeping it real." The PM's approval rating soars, and Ali G becomes the PM's adviser. Of course Carlton isn't going to sit by idly while this happens.The movie falls back on lazy, juvenile humor. Most of the jokes are stillborn and fall flat. What made the TV show so wildly funny--playing off the character with interview subjects who weren't in on the joke--is completely absent from the movie. The movie does have some good moments, such as when Ali and the gang break into the PM's residence and have to break dance through an "Entrapment"-inspired security system criss- crossed with laser beams. And there is some funny commentary on modern society, such as when Ali has to clarify over the phone an indecipherable message he texted in shorthand.But without an unwitting victim, Ali G just isn't very funny. Luckily Cohen learned his lesson from this film, and stuck to the format that made his show so funny in the inspired comedy "Borat."

'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.

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.