Unfortunately, the wildly funny sequences (Aladeen becoming iron-fisted dictator of the hippie commune, Aladeen freaking out passengers on a tourist helicopter ride, American pop songs like R.E.M ...

The Dictator Having pulled the improv equivalent of ... Sacha Baron Cohen retreats behind the veil of scripted comedy in “The Dictator.” Admiral Gen. Omar Aladeen may be the funnyman’s ...

It’s Aladeen! Thank God, Allah, Aladeen, and L. Ron Hubbard (just so Scientologists won’t kidnap us and make us watch Battleship Earth ) for Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles.

Meanwhile Tamir is working on some black-market oil deals to enrich himself, while the illiterate Aladeen look-alike he’s found to stand in for the dictator (also played by Baron Cohen) spends ...

The Dictator’s opening scenes ask, ‘Who is General Aladeen?’ (Picture: Paramount) The hotly anticipated film begins with an American news report explaining that General Aladeen of the ...

Film review: ‘The Dictator’ is humorous, but stretches bad taste. By Andy Klein . May 18, 2012 1:49 PM PT ...

Baron Cohen plays General Admiral Haffaz Aladeen, dictator of the fictional North African country of Wadiya, with a beard as bogus as his accent. The Supreme Leader lives to oppress, ...

Aladeen is as far removed from the harmless idiocy of Borat as fashion journo Bruno was (equal parts obnoxious and loathsome), but part of the fun of The Dictator is in embracing this spite.

Sacha Baron Cohen’s “The Dictator” is literally a take-no-prisoners comedy. Get on the bad side of Cohen’s latest character, Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen, and out of your view he’ll ...

The Dictator The gags are more exhausted than Gaddafi's regime as Sacha Baron Cohen graduates from documentary punking to standard comedy. Kurt Loder | 5.15.2012 3:30 PM.

The Prombron Aladeen Edition is actually a Prombron Kombat SUV in glittery, golden clothes. The Kombat itself is based on the Hummer H2, and the Aladeed Edition was introduced in 2012 after three ...