‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’ Sparks Calls For Theater Boycott, Trailer Slammed Over Racist Stereotypes
https://deadline.com/2026/08/ali-g-who-iz-i-trailer-theater-boycott-racist-caricature-1237062699/
https://deadline.com/2026/08/ali-g-who-iz-i-trailer-theater-boycott-racist-caricature-1237062699/
23 Comments
mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 60 pts · 1d
I honestly can't tell if this is viral marketing for the film.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 31 pts · 1d
I mean, does anyone not know about borat? I think this sort of shit has always been a large part of his repertoire. I can't say for sure if it's intended to be bigoted or racist. Ali G is targeted at the chavs of Britain and london IIRC. Honestly I don't think anyone is immune to the portrayals that he does. Whether or not they're in good taste. Which yeah generally they're not.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1d
Borat, bruno, ali g, the great dictator, ... All of them were pissing off a big amount of people hehe
Now the uk ban of this movie is what kinda triggers me tbh
m4xie@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1d
The Great Dictator was Charlie Chaplin. His was only The Dictator.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 4 pts · 1d
Yeah it wasn't so great
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
The movie had a very Aladeen response from the public
Eldritch@piefed.world · 3 pts · 1d
Lol true. But it was memorable enough I instantly knew what you're talking about. That way it was definitely among the worst Anna Faris vehicles. And she did The House Bunny and Chris Pratt.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23h
I had to look that one up. Wow, even my student film got higher reviews on rotten tomatoes (because no one else has found it on rotten tomatoes except my crew and we all gave it thumbs up. That counts, right?)
(shut up)
Eldritch@piefed.world · 2 pts · 23h
It literally derailed sbc's career trajectory. Even if it was tongue in cheek. It portrayed a lot of what is fantasized about now in the chauvinist manosphere bigot space iirc. It was somehow even in poorer taste than his standard fare.
klu9@piefed.social · 22 pts · 1d
The campaign started on Newscord... an AI-based site.
https://newscord.org/newscord-explained#explained
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 1d
I feel like people are misunderstanding his character as a joke. Are not laughing at him because he acts like a Jamaican, because if he was still a Jamaican we'd laugh at that too. But we laugh at his delusion in thinking he's more than just some white chav. If anything, we're laughing at him taking the piss out of chavs not black people. Be outraged at that if you want to be outraged.
glimse@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1d
His failure to emulate Jamaican culture is part of the joke! His whole schtick is misunderstanding the world around him. It's funny that he's trying his hardest to cosplay a character from a show he's clearly never seen
Borat, on the other hand, is just racist.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 1d
Which also is kind of the point. Borat is a commentary on people.
I guess "throw the Jew down the well" is kinda funny just for the unhinged nature of the lyrics, but the real substance/funny (by absurdity) part is that he gets regular people to sing and go along with it.
glimse@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
I won't deny that I laughed my ass off when I saw Borat. I loved how it skewered conservatives.
But still, picking a real country was a mistake. And lying about a documentary on poverty to a poor village is incredibly scummy, no way to sugarcoat it
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
Yeah I thought of that when I said it. The set up is overtly racist, and it walks a line where I COULD try to argue that it's establishing Borat as a character, but it does definitely seem to lean more on shock value while character building as a fringe benefit.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1d
https://slrpnk.net/comment/24114147
leave_it_blank@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1d
Say what you will, I usually find his movies extremely funny. These types of movies and characters have become so rare that it's almost refreshing.
That it pisses a lot of people off would not surprise me, but it's the best marketing you can get for free.
glimse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Borat pisses people off because it's very directly racist (unlike Ali G)
Plus he exploited real people living in poverty for the Kazakhstan scenes which is a very not cool thing to do
Widukin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1d
They got paid, they just wanted more money (like actor level pay) after finding out the success of the movie. No one got exploited.
Source: I'm from Romania, I know those kind of people.
gastroglizzy@piefed.social · 9 pts · 1d
Hell yeah, it must be good af then. Can't wait to see it
kokesh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
All idiots getting offended again...
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online · 0 pts · 6h
It's crazy how much I thought he was funny back when I was an edgy loser teen. At least I'm not a Zionist now. Never going to watch this trash.
BrickEater@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 17h
Can't believe people still watch this Zionist piece of shit.