Sacha Baron-Cohen's Ali G has become a hero to the very people he set out to satirise but, as Bling Bling demonstrates, this is no time to put this creation out to grass; as long as there's a Christmas every year, collections like this will keep appearing.
Bling Bling is an assortment of Ali G's interviews; a couple of them with possibly the last people in Britain who didn't realise that someone was pulling their leg and several with American grandees of various sorts, including economist JK Galbraith and former CIA director Admiral Stansfield Turner. The real selling point, however, is Ali G's undeniably spectacular Comic Relief interview with David and Victoria Beckham, which, incidentally, presented the pair in a far more favourable light than any amount of avuncular fawning by Michael Parkinson. Bling Bling also includes quite a lot of Baron-Cohen's other alter-ego, hapless Kazakh! reporter Borat. Though Borat is a lazy and disappointing retreat to a time when British comedy was grounded in a belief that all foreigners are inherently hilarious--he's basically Manuel from "Fawlty Towers" with a microphone--he deserves kudos for the interview with an insufferable English undergraduate comedy troupe, in which he manages to get invited to slap two of them, and does so with the force they deserve.
On the DVD: The scene selector or, rather, "Scene Selecta" is straightforward enough. The only "extras" are some more Ali G interviews, and a trailer for the forthcoming Ali G film. --Andrew Mueller
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
pretty funny Pretty funny. Only flaw really is that there is 20 mins of Borat (which was funny at first, but got old a year later)
Buy Aiii first, then Bling Bling for Posh and Becks... The second best video so far. The Posh and Becks intraviewz is the highlight for me.
Recomended, but buy Aiii first
worth buying if havent seen the posh and becks interview.... otherwise perhaps only hardcore borat fans will appreciate this third video/dvd offering from Sacha Baron Cohen. The posh and becks interview is a classic, quite how they agreed to do it instead of doing the usual parkinson show is beyond me. Respect to them both for doing it and it doesnt disappoint.
Asking what they would like Brookyln to grow up as Ali asks if they would prefer "a footballer like David, or a singer....like Mariah Carey". and when victoria says he can now put full sentences together Ali... more info
I wish I hadn't wasted my money on this I love the guy but apart from Posh and Bex both me and my wife were totally bored by this. Seems that his interviews are funny in the context of his show but on their own they just don't cut it. I was also a bit gutted to discover that the DVD was VHS quality, I must remember to read the DVD case before I buy in future :-(
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