Hot Trailer: ‘The Dictator’ Red Band

COMMENTS (11)

• This looks like “Don’t Mess with the Zohan”, but much worse. It will be interesting to see if all the publicity and marketing brings back the SBC audience or just increases the potential loss.

  Comment by FTCS — Monday May 7, 2012 @ 10:10am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Potential loss?

    Borat cost $18M and made over $260M. Bruno at $22M made $138M with a very controversial theme and dancing genitalia. Low budgets make green-lighting and recoup a no-brainer. It isn’t the marketing budget that makes his films money. His movies aren’t for everyone, but he definitely gives his fans what they want; his audience would follow him just about anywhere.

    Comment by tyler — Monday May 7, 2012 @ 3:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Sorry still stupid and embarrassing for all involved. Hopefully this will flop so badly that we won’t have to see Sacha star in any more of these contrived vehicles. He needs to stop with the foreign shtick characters they are getting worse and worse. Borat was brilliant and original. Bruno was terrible and painful and this looks simply awful and horrible without any genuine humor it’s all cliched stereotypes.

  Comment by buh-bye sacha — Monday May 7, 2012 @ 10:45am PDT  Reply to this post

• I don’t think it looks great or terrible. I’ll see it eventually but it’s not a “must see in theater” movie for me.

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday May 7, 2012 @ 11:36am PDT  Reply to this post

• i’m a sacha fan and probably won’t go see this. the 9/11 helicopter joke isn’t funny. the shtick this time goes too far.

  Comment by sacha fan — Monday May 7, 2012 @ 11:43am PDT  Reply to this post

• Saw it. Loved it. Who needs dictators with current democracies.

  Comment by an — Monday May 7, 2012 @ 12:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

• SBC has done some very funny stuff in the past. This looks dreadful.

  Comment by Vince — Monday May 7, 2012 @ 2:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• this trailer is LIGHTYEARS better than the previously released ones that i’ve seen – which doesn’t mean much but i’m just sayin…

  i would go as far as to say the earlier trailers may have done more harm than good to the forthcoming opening – i could barely force myself to click on this one and watch it and i was a huge fan of da ali g show.

  Comment by claude — Monday May 7, 2012 @ 2:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Sold. The 911 joke killed me.

  Comment by amirite — Monday May 7, 2012 @ 7:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

• production budget maybe small, but paramount is spending a shit-ton on marketing.

  sbc is brilliant, but feels like the same shtick over and over. Sadam is out Qhadaffi (spelled wrong, sorry) is out — just doesn’t seem timely anymore.

  Comment by Ali G Fan — Monday May 7, 2012 @ 10:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• So, they took the “Coming To America” script and cut, pasted, and edited for a North African dictator and updated the fish-out-of-water jokes for today’s NYC.

  You see how easy it is to do this?

  Comment by KOF — Monday May 7, 2012 @ 10:44pm PDT  Reply to this post