Ali G : IDH – Keeping it real or flushing it down the drain ?

I have often, come across movies that make use of Razor sharp dialogues and interesting storylines in order cast an impressive spell on the viewers. Quite a large number of movies that I have seen in the past have left me wondering, thinking about the various things that the script of the movie tries to convey to me. The end story here is that each and every movie is related to a particular “Genre” and what it tries to reflect into the viewer’s mind is somewhat, if not entirely, related to its genre.

Then there are certain movies which try to take things too far and end up being either train wrecks or Super hits. Such movies can either hit or miss, depending upon the viewers apprehension regarding the movie or some past history related to the subject that the movie is supposed to depict.

Ali G: IDH (In Da House) makes all the efforts it can in order to humiliate itself in the name of its genre that is supposedly supposed to be “Humor”.

Ali G : In Da House debuted back in mid 2004 and received mixed reviews from the world wide audience. The movie never even got to the cinema screens in quite a few countries due the fact that the censor boards were successful in working their magic again. The movie was released on DVD in USA and UK in later half of the same year.

Plot:

The movie revolves around Ali G , who is treated “roughly” by his dog in the opening scene. Ali G is the leader of the West Stains(a middle class white neighbourhood in England) Massive, who are a bunch of wannabe west side gangsters. If you aren’t a hip-hop fan and weren’t in the scene in the early 90s, I find it to be my duty to enlighten you that the West Stains Massive’s main rivals are the East Stains Massive (this reminds me of the tu-pac & biggie era!).

Ali G runs a scout group at a leisure center. When he finds out that the leisure center is going to be closed, he sets out to protest and brings himself to the attention of the Chancellor(after the chancellor spots him outside his office, handcuffed to a railing and semi-nude). The Chancellor thinks that Ali G can play an important role in his scheme to replace the Prime minister of the country. The Chancellor convinces the Prime Minister to let Ali G(political puppet) stand in the local Stains elections for their party as the “Voice of the youth”(the chancellor thinks that Ali G will end up embarrassing the party and the Prime Minister will be forced to resign resulting in him being the new Prime Minister of the country).However his plan backfires as Ali G’s “Keep it real” proclamation takes the country by storm and he becomes a popular Parliament Member in the country.

Ensuing is a ludicrous series of events in which the Chancellor tries to take the popular Ali G down in order to make his scheme, to become the new Prime Minister of England, successful.

Conclusive Analysis:

First of all, if you were expecting some political satire from this movie, it isn’t meant for you to see.

I had seen this movie a couple of times and had seemed to thoroughly enjoy each and every bit of it (being a vary niice Sacha Baron fan). However as you might have noticed, In my last two posts, I have tried to question the kind of humor that is being made use off in such movies.

Ali G and his buddies make use of a ghetto lingo in this movie. It was kind of hard to understand what they were saying at first but I got accustomed to it after a while.

I think that the plot of this movie is just a low level excuse; the real motive being, cracking sex, and marijuana jokes. I found this movie to be massively obsessed with oversized penis, masturbation, drugs, porn, breasts, sexual intercourse and cross dressing.

In the midst of this movie, all the topics seem to be open for discussion. From exploiting the federally confiscated goods such as porn movies and drugs to rejecting “ugly” looking immigrants..this movie seems to take the joke too far.

I don’t think that there is anything more that I can analyse from this movie, its just a weird comedy which some are bound to love while the rest find it to be a humiliation in the name of genuine humor.

According to me, this movie was an unsuccessful try to transfer Ali G from the small screen to the big screen (The Ali G show to the movie). This being solely due to the fact that this movie lacks the risky edge that Sacha Cohen took on the Ali G show. In an attempt to make up for this, juvenile and unfledged humor has been made use off in this movie. This movie abandons the confrontational humor that is made use off on the Ali G shows and emphasizes on Ali G’s idiocratic nature to a much larger extent.

Quite a few people are bound to get offended by this movie due to the various aspects this movie is obsessed with (rejecting ugly immigrants, sex, porn, drugs & etc.).

As I said earlier, this movie is not meant for everyone. Many jokes fall flat and rest revolve around the same theme of “crude” humor.

Although I do not respect (R.E.S.T.E.C.P! Do ya even know wha it spellz? ) the type of humor used in this movie, I couldn’t help but laughing at times.

This leads me back to the same question that was raised in my previous post.

Which direction is Humor headed in today’s world?

I would say that Humor is headed downhill at a rather fast pace. However, Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion. I have a feeling that the form of humor is evolving, but what is it transitioning into?

Does this movie keep “Genuine” humor real or does it make all the efforts it can, in order flush it down the potty seat?

Again

The Question my friend, is for you to answer.