Ali G Indahouse
As if Seth Rogen, Airplane! and Mr. Bean had a filthy baby. How the fuck did they get Working Title to go for this, is it another Bad Santa? Poor Charles Dance, I guess he had a contract to fulfil.
It’s extremely British, there’s so many random bit parts for actors from the UK. Plus the big ones, filmed in a couple days, line Charles Dance and Michael Gambon. Martin Freeman has a better role as a chav.
Besides the usual dick jokes, fart jokes, jokes about being gay, and the teasing of nekkid broads, there’s the hilarious wholesale adoption of the entire hip hop culture by some dudes from London suburbs, calling local cops “LAPD”. This happens in many locations, cultural droughts produces these bizarre cultural voids, filled with inappropriate imports. It’s not Four Lions though, the satire is quite shallow.
At least there’s no political satire either, just a generic “politicians being politicians” backdrop. The party that runs Alistair Graham (Ali G, check it) is clearly the Tories, the opposition is lead by a Blair expy. There’s only a minor Lib Dem joke, before Nick Clegg was in the cabinet.
Can’t believe there’s a joke about John Major fucking a pig, no way that David Cameron story is phoney. Black Mirror too, no way that is just a story. It’s too perfect.
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