Robby, Liz and I saw this over the weekend and we now know what everybody is raving about. This movie is hilarious! There are definitely some crazy parts, some offensive parts and maybe even some gross parts. I’m sure there are many who would not find this funny at all…but I did. Maybe this should be tossed into the same category as South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut. The one thing I’m actually surprised with is how people are trying to sue Sasha Baron Cohen after finding out they’re in the movie. These people signed release forms and were interacting with a man and a camera crew. This guy also has a TV show where he plays the exact same character. I guess some people are just slow to catch on.
If you don’t know much about this movie, a man pretends to be a news reporter from Kazakhstan and travels all over the US gaining experiences along the way. He’s very anti-semitic and has many offensive ideas and ideologies that he shares with just the right people along the way. He also does a lot of things to put people in awkward situations and seems to get away with it because he’s “foreign”.
I can’t recommend this to most, but I found this one to be quite funny.
This is a movie I’ve wanted to see since I first saw a preview for it…..uh, a very long time ago. Being Hispanic, I’m interested in these kind of things, yet it doesn’t make me a sucker for them either. This is a movie that asks what would happen if everybody of Hispanic/Mexican/Latino descent just disappeared from California.
You may be thinking this movie is all ‘¡Viva La Raza!’. Well it’s not. This movie doesn’t try to widen the gap between the rich Hispanic and rich American cultures that exist in this country. You also may be thinking ‘Good riddance!’. If you are, I feel sorry for you. Luckily this movie isn’t about getting all the illegals out either. This movie just tries to show what it would be like if pretty much 1/3 of California’s population just vanished.
I’ve heard many jokes in my lifetime about how dirty, lazy, rotten, stealing/thieving, dumb, stupid, ignorant, blah blah blah Mexicans are. It’s really easy to say these kinds of things about any group of people no matter what their color, religion, race or creed is. I would bet money that you couldn’t find me an example of the things aforementioned from any group of people. However, I’m also willing to bet that you can find many examples of good, hard working, industrious, clean, cultured, loving, caring people from any group as well. This movie shows how people would be missing from key positions in the government, business and industry, entertainment, agriculture, education, etc. It also does it in a funny way. I’d definitely label this one a comedy. It’s also a bit of a documentary or mocumentary. A bit funny like Spinal Tap or Best of Show, yet not quite that far. This movie tries to get something serious across in a funny way. It also contains factual tidbits and statistics throughout the movie that only backup what the movie is trying to tell. I believe the exact same kind of movie could be made about any people group residing in our great nation. I give this movie two thumbs and a big toe up.
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