The brand new Sacha Baron Cohen film Ali G: Who Iz I? has already garnered complaints that the movie and the title character — who Baron Cohen has portrayed for many years on tv and one prior movie — perpetuates outdated racist stereotypes.
Now one of many largest comedy stars of the 2000s have joined requires the movie’s boycott. That’s Borat Sagdiyev, the Kazakh reporter who famously got here right here to report on our customs for state tv, and wound up driving round the US in an ice cream truck after which chased Pamela Anderson round a Virgin Megastore.
Borat says he has seen Who Iz I? and he’s additionally heard the complaints that the movie is racist.
“Sadly,” Borat added, “it isn’t.”
Okay, sure, Borat simply occurs to be Sacha Baron Cohen. And his requires a boycott of the “dastardly” comic are simply the brand new trailer for Ali G: Who Iz I? But it surely’s a reasonably intelligent trailer all the identical. Watch it beneath:
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Right here is the movie’s official synopsis:
After twenty years spent “chillin’, tokin’ and bonin’”, Ali G is shocked to find that his long-term girlfriend, Julie, is 8 months pregnant. Confronted with an additional mouth to feed, he will get off his batty and heads to America to reclaim his former glory… however quickly encounters adversaries who will in the end threaten his and his little one’s very existence.
Ali G: Who Iz I? is scheduled to open in theaters on October 23 — though the newest press launch says it’s taking part in theaters only for “one weekend solely.”
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