Embarrassingly Bad... Not Funny In The Least 2/10 | U Dude (unfavorabledude) | 17 May 2012
This movie is completely awful in every way. It plays out like all bad parody films. There is no real story, just a bunch of unrelated jokes. I know you don't go to these type of films for the story but you need something to hang these "jokes" upon. As is, it's not funny at all. Honestly, I may have chuckled once during the entire showing. Anna Faris and Ben Kingsley must have lost a bet to be in this thing. The cast looked embarrassed to be in it and frankly, I was embarrassed to be sitting through it. I thought this would be a funny movie about how an over privileged dictator who is now living among the people would act, like a fish out of water deal. Muslim leader in the non Muslim world. (Like Eddie Murphy's Coming To America type thing) They actually failed on that front bigtime. The movie is four years too late. Yes, it's a Pro Obama commercial in an election year but, without directly mentioning Bush, it pretty much attacks his administration and then goes on to bash America. Spoilers... His lame speech calls America a dictatorship and rips its form of democracy. Honestly, they spend more time bashing the United States than pointing out the mess that is the middle east or the extreme Muslim way of thinking. More time was spent with Sacha as The Dictator doing very lame interviews than working a script that was probably written on a napkin four years ago. What a waste of film and of time.
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