Review

by Clarence B

Time for Mr. Cohen to retire the yellow suit

Sacha Baron Cohen’s creation of Ali G started out as a funny and clever satirical take on a modern cultural phenomenon. As the bandwagon gathered pace and more and more people jumped aboard the character became a somewhat inescapable pastiche. ‘Ali G in da House’ is the final straw as the character finally loses any credibility and humour. The jokes are agonisingly poor, the ‘real’ actors who are in the movie are substandard and the entire film acts as a window for everything that is wrong with modern culture – something that is just too disheartening to laugh at. ‘Ali G in da House’ is nothing more than an indication that it may be time for Mr. Cohen to retire the yellow suit and concentrate on more sophisticated alter-egos.