In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I don't know what movies you call comedy. Like 'The Gods Must Be Crazy' - I don't find that much of comedy. But this movie!!!!!!!! Oh, don't talk about it!!!! Just watch and laugh your hearts out. 'She tried to milk me'.... Ha Ha Ha...

Why people are always so mean when score comedy? Do they know how hard it is to think out of an idea and express it to make its audience laugh? This movie is by all means hilarious and Sacha is definitely a genius. I have already watched more than four times and don't mind to watch again and again.

The Dictator (2012): Dir: Larry Charles / Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Jason Mantzoukas, Ben Kingsley, John C. Reilly: Here is a film that pokes fun of government and leadership with Sacha Baron Cohen starring as Admiral General Hafez Aladeen whose reputation is at the extremes in controversy. He is set to visit the United States but upon arrival he is kidnapped by the chief of security and replaced with a double by his scheming uncle. Aladeen escapes but without his beard, which was sheered during torture. He ends up being befriended by a political activist, played by Anna Faris who runs a health foods store with those whom she views as social outcasts. This is all quite funny as an idea but it soon becomes predictable and somewhat wayward in its concluding views. It does have a lot of funny moments thanks to Cohen being likable in the lead. He struggles to adapt to city life in New York while making his own rules as he goes. Another hilarious appearance comes from Jason Mantzoukas as Aladeen's nuclear weapons manufacturer who was believed to have been executed. He and Aladeen have a funny argument regarding whether the top of the weapon should be pointed. Other roles are typical. Faris has comic potential as seen in Observe and Report but here she is just the bunt of male jokes due to her short hair. Ben Kingsley as the uncle is also one dimensional despite his efforts. John C. Reilly makes an appearance as a contact with another agenda. Cohen and director Larry Charles together again with an assault on government but this is no Borat. Score: 6 / 10

I could just say that this is a comedy full with jokes that, in general, are not funny at all. It would be true, but the truth is even worse. "The dictator" is a predictable film full of prejudices and intended to work as a propaganda of the foreign policy of the United States (even tough at some time it criticizes American politics when the spectator does not expects it anymore). It is simply not nice to make a film just to reinforce prejudice against Middle East in the United States. Poking fun at actresses and actors suggesting that they prostitute themselves is not nice either. Why are torture devices from many Eatern countries and none used in Guantanamo, for example? Why so much criticism about nuclear weapons in Middle East and no concern about them in the United States, the only nation that has already used a nuclear weapon against another country ever. Even the character shown to criticize prejudice, Zoey, is indeed caricature-like. The only great moment of the movie is the speech of Aladeen; it could have been a kind of remake of Chaplin's classic scene for present time. Tough, unfortunately, it happens after the film have taken a completely different path. The coincidence of supporting democracy against dictatorship is only an apparent similarity, as the meaning is completely different in both films.