Good Comedy outweighed by disturbing presentation

Rating: 6/10 (13 November 2006)

This movie had the potential to be a ten. I can completely understand how in some people's minds it was a smash, but I think the average person would come away with the perspective I did--complete confusion.
I love Da Ali G show and I am a fan of this type of humor, but this movie really crossed some lines. Portions of it should not have been allowed into theaters. I am surprised at how leftist a lot of the reviews of this movie have been. This movie contains a lot of hilarious moments, but the average viewer should keep some things in mind: The film making process was deceptive and contained a lot of exploitation of certain people in it. Some of it legitimately pointed out problems with American Society, but a lot of it was just crude.
The graphic nature of certain scenes was unnecessarily excessive. It could be very offensive to a lot of people, and that has been ignored in the rating process.
The racial comedy smashed walls that people died to build. On a day that marked the ground breaking of the MLK Jr Memorial on the National Mall, it is important to recognize that.
Taking those things into consideration, it was not the intention (in my opinion) of the film maker to be overly offensive. However, the finished product definitely can be seen as offensive. A lot of this movie was just not needed; that takes away from so much of the comedic genius. This movie gets a soft 6 for good comedy--not great comedy--and the sense of confusion it will leave you with when you walk out of the theater. It doesn't raise the question of what is wrong with our society like it should have, but rather the question of how did this film get onto a big screen?