Dictator, The

Synopsis
Comic Sacha Baron Cohen re-teams with director Larry Charles (BORAT, BRUNO) for this satirical tale of an oppressive, democracy-hating dictator and a goatherder (both played by Cohen) whose misadventures in America lead to a series of outrageous culture clashes. Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, and CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM's J.B. Smoove co-star.

Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- "Middle East megalomania, antisemitism, sexism, racism and war-mongering are given side-splitting censure in THE DICTATOR, a superb vehicle for Sacha Baron Cohen's over-the-top socio-political outrageousness." (Box Office)

"The film has a better developed plot than BRUNO and a more defined structure than BORAT....THE DICTATOR also has its moments of slyly clever satire." (USA Today)

"Faris is the film's standout....The kind of true-believer purity she brings to Zoey's eco-terrorizing rants comes close to stealing Baron Cohen's comic thunder." (Los Angeles Times)

"THE DICTATOR leaves you laughing helplessly. It starts at outrageous and rockets on from there." (Rolling Stone)

"Sacha Baron Cohen's gleefully scabrous portrait of a fictional North African tyrant called Admiral General Aladeen starts high..." (Wall Street Journal)

3 stars out of 4 -- "Cohen's attack on the material is free-wheeling, his attitude is anarchist, and he's more good-humored than in BORAT and BRUNO." (Chicago Sun-Times)

"[With] Cohen in all his long-legged, language-mangling glory: THE DICTATOR works both as satire and as comedy..." (Movieline)

3 stars out of 5 -- "A film like THE DICTATOR lives by the strength of its gags, and Cohen & co deliver a relentless barrage of politically incorrect rib-ticklers." (Total Film)