The Dictator

I think I can feel it disappearing from my mind even as I am trying to remember it... It's Baron Cohen going at 50mph rather than 100mph.

The problem is that, unlike Ali G, Borat, and Brno, Aladeen is less a force of nature than a scripted performance.

Both the laughter and the satire had crawled off and quietly died.

The film has a vicious edge that the Marx Brothers didn't have, and it's too low-minded to achieve their enchanting blend of anarchy and surrealism.

You would strain to identify The Dictator as a clever movie. But it doesn't quite work as a big dumb movie either.

Now [Cohen is] turning material both fresh and rancid into tepid gruel.

Laughs are few and far between, which comes as a surprise given how Borat and Brüno managed to be two of the most riotously funny movies you’ll ever see.

Overall The Dictator lacks the wit, invention and spontaneity of Baron Cohen's earlier work...

The over saturation of marketing stunts certainly didn't help the appeal but politically and comedically you'll find more to think about and laugh at during a single half hour on The Daily Show or The Colbert Report.

It employs a screenplay so flummoxing that it's tricky to put derision into words.