Ali G Indahouse (2002)

Much like Ali G's book (The Gospel According to Ali G), this is crude and juvenile and often functionally retarded. It'd probably be indefensible if it wasn't so fucking funny much of the time. It helps that the Ali G character is a glorious comic creation -- idiotic and faux-homeboy though he may be, the character has a certain logical consistency and a certain way of responding to situations that his creator never betrays for the sake of an easy joke. Or, to put it another way, the jokes come from within the character as opposed to the character encountering the jokes like many other comedies tend to do (Meet the Parents, for example). Which is a rather fancy way for me to justify laughing at such ridiculously stupid stuff like Ali G dropping trou when asked to lay a brick at a ground-breaking ceremony. Booyakasha.

Grade: B-