Release Date: May 16, 2012
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Larry Charles
Screenwriter: Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, David Mandel
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
****
60% Positive
The Consensus:
Wildly uneven but consistently provocative, The Dictator is a decent entry in the poli-slapstick comedy genre.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
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Review Samplings:
LOVED IT!
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"The Dictator starts at outrageous and rockets on from there. Screw the occasional sputter"
LIKED IT!
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
"On the laughmeter The Dictator is closer to Borat than to the misfired Bruno, which is to say it's funny for about half of its brisk 83 minutes."
DISLIKED IT!
Dana Stevens, Slate
"Most of The Dictator had me neither laughing nor shocked, but just staring at the screen in anxious is-that-all-there-is? silence."
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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how its done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."
--Brendan Behan (successful Irish dramatist)
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--Eli Wallach (award winning screen actor) |
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