The Dictator also earns high marks in Aladeen’s raunchy-sweet courtship of Zoey, the hirsute flower child who tenderizes his Kurd-gassing heart. “You lied to me,” Zoey exclaims after he ...

Or HIV-Aladeen?” And now readers may ask: is Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator Aladeen or, er, Aladeen? It’s Aladeen! Aladeen comes to New York, gets kidnapped by a mystery operative (John C.

Like Kim Jong Il (to whom "The Dictator" is dedicated), who was at the center of the brilliant puppet musical "Team America: World Police," Aladeen is just plain lonely. But playing this type of ...

An unexpectedly poignant earlier scene — the closest the film gets to Charlie-Chaplin-as-Hitler tenderly wooing a giant inflatable globe in “The Great Dictator” — finds Aladeen standing ...

The Dictator’s opening scenes see General Aladeen’s effortless rise to power. The Dictator’s opening scenes ask, ‘Who is General Aladeen?’ (Picture: Paramount) The hotly anticipated film ...

Of course, Cartman has the excuse of being a 10-year-old; Aladeen merely has the mind of a 10-year-old. “The Dictator” is definitely not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. Baron Cohen ...

“Yeah, and not in a good way!” Aladeen retorts. That's one of the few throwaway lines that is genuinely amusing in "The Dictator," which never achieves the stinging parodic heights of Cohen's ...

Baron Cohen's identification with Aladeen is so strong that you end up rooting — yes, rooting — for the dictator, because this idiot is more likable than his chief aide, Tamir, played by a ...

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 ...

The supporting cast, from Anna Faris as Aladeen’s hippie love interest ... Every scene in The Dictator throws five jokes at you, between two and two and a half of which are actually funny.