Ali G In Da House

Aroview: Sacha Baron Cohen and his wildly successfully small-screen alter-ego take to the feature film narrative like a duck to water in this genuinely hilarious youth-culture satire.

Offensive and endearing at the same time, Cohen has honed his ganja-smoking, dirty-minded, slang-mouthed, Fubu-clad, West-Indian-homeboy-from-the-burbs schtick to perfection, and his confidence as performer and co-writer outclasses recent black-culture spoofs from across the Atlantic. Placing him in the House of Commons takes the staple fish-out-of-water premise to its most sublimely ridiculous extreme, sustained right to the end by gags that hit far more often than they rightfully deserve.

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