My first reaction to watching The Dictator? I’m not sure Sacha Baron Cohen’s ever been quite that direct about something, in this case the ludicrousness of the American system in his monologue near the end. Neil wondered if it’d get censored in the US. Unlikely, I would have thought — the First Amendment and all that.
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I have not seen it yet. Movies usually need to advocate something like a violent act or reveal military secrets to get censored here. Being critical or embarrassing people seems to be fine as long as it is not slander.
I would say it’s not as funny as his previous films (bar Bruno, which I didn’t really find funny at all), but there are still laughs in it — if only because he’s so offensive.