Ali G-Ali G, Aiii (2000)

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General		Extras
Category	Comedy	Main Menu Audio & Animation Featurette-Ali G's Christmas Message To The Nation Easter Egg
Rating
Year Of Production	2000
Running Time	98:06 (Case: 104)
RSDL / Flipper	No/No	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Subtitle Select Then Menu
Region Coding	2,4	Directed By	James Bobin Steve Smith
Studio Distributor	Universal Pictures Home Video	Starring	Sacha Baron Cohen
Case	?
RPI	$36.95	Music	None Given

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	None	English Dolby Digital 2.0 (224Kb/s)
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	1.78:1
16x9 Enhancement
Video Format	576i (PAL)
Original Aspect Ratio	Varies	Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures	No
Subtitles	Swedish Danish Dutch Norwegian Finnish English	Smoking	No
		Annoying Product Placement	No
		Action In or After Credits	No

    Ali's 1/2 hour long shows typically feature a studio interview, a skit or two, a song, and Ali-style interviews in the field with a whole variety of experts and/or noted persons. His 'interview' with the owner of Harrods is extremely funny. Ali  takes this interview concept all the way with his Borat character. Borat is a fictional Kharzakstani 'personality' who is on assignment in Britain finding out what makes the English tick. He looks at manners, attends the rowing, and goes fox hunting. English people are very polite but Borat tests them sorely. The people he interviews, thinking he is the 'real deal', accept his rudeness and crudeness and ignorance because he is a foreigner and does not know any better. This is the source of considerable cringe-style humour.

    Ali G's humour is still centred on sexual organs, drugs, and so forth, but there is plenty of laughter coming from other areas as well. His American interviews are classics. In fact, my first experience of Ali G was seeing the interviews with the guys in the FBI. After having breathing difficulties as a result of too much laughter, I was hooked. As with the previous disc, subtitles are provided for those who have yet to catch on to his delivery style. This disc is comprised of highlights from his television series and includes segments that never went to air.

Video

    The picture was quite sharp, and definitely a little sharper than that offered on the Innit DVD. The small number of dark scenes on this DVD were not at all problematic.

    This is a fairly colourful DVD. This is not just in relation to his colourful set, for in this series Ali sports a wider variety of clothing, virtually all of it garish. His 'tracksuits' are blue and red as well as white and black. No colour bleeds or other problems were evident in this transfer.

    MPEG artefacts were not problem for this transfer.

    This is a single layered DVD so there is no layer change.

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Audio

    The surrounds are mostly quiescent, and like the previous DVD, Innit, only become audible when the audience laughed.

    The sub remained on vacation.

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Menu

    All of the menus were animated, scored and 16x9 enhanced.

Outtakes

    There are three minutes worth of outtakes after the end of the last segment.

Christmas Message

    A ten minute Ali G Christmas Message that is 16x9 enhanced.

Easter Egg - Bonus Interview

    An Easter Egg accessible via the main menu that allows you to view a bonus interview.
   

    More high quality humour that will not be for everyone but those who are not easily offended should really enjoy this disc.

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