The Dictator demands you see his film

I just saw the movie. The Dictator is both a conventional comedy with a romantic subplot. I've heard it described as "Coming To America with rape jokes" which ill-serves the movie. It has a brisk-yet-warm tone similar to the Eddie Murphy classic, but in context the most evil aspects of The Dictator's back-story are understood by fans of Sacha Baron Cohen to be post-modern satire and only the most clueless person - some of whom being critics - will be offended. It is part movie and part practical joke even if the film itself is pure fiction and has no literal wink to the camera. The fourth wall is perhaps broken verbally, through code. This film is about as funny as Ali G In Da House, his first feature-length movie. It may not have the tension of Borat, but it may be funnier than Bruno without having the squirm factor. The Dictator as interviewed: Cohen himself interviewed by Howard Stern