Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen

Director: James Bobin

Summary: Featuring new material, the Beckham interview and American interviews.

Ali G is back--with even more shiny jewelry. This release features more antics from Ali (Sacha Baron Cohen) including his interview with David and Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham. BLING BLING also presents Borat's hit video from Kazhakstan, "Jagshemash."

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Sacha Baron-Cohen's Ali G has become a hero to the very people he set out to satirise but, as Bling Blingdemonstrates, this is no time to put this creation out to grass; as long as there's a Christmas every year, collections like this will keep appearing.

Bling Blingis an assortment of Ali G's interviews; a couple of them with possibly the last people in Britain who didn't realise that someone was pulling their leg and several with American grandees of various sorts, including economist JK Galbraith and former CIA director Admiral Stansfield Turner. The real selling point, however, is Ali G's undeniably spectacular Comic Relief interview with David and Victoria Beckham, which, incidentally, presented the pair in a far more favourable light than any amount of avuncular fawning by Michael Parkinson. Bling Blingalso includes quite a lot of Baron-Cohen's other alter-ego, hapless Kazakh! reporter Borat. Though Borat is a lazy and disappointing retreat to a time when British comedy was grounded in a belief that all foreigners are inherently hilarious--he's basically Manuel from "Fawlty Towers" with a microphone--he deserves kudos for the interview with an insufferable English undergraduate comedy troupe, in which he manages to get invited to slap two of them, and does so with the force they deserve.

On the DVD:The scene selector or, rather, "Scene Selecta" is straightforward enough. The only "extras" are some more Ali G interviews, and a trailer for the forthcoming Ali G film. --Andrew Mueller

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Extra Footage, Film Trailer
Year:	2001
Release Date:	November 26, 2001
Runtime:	82 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	V C D 0193
Label:	Talkback
Keywords:	Comedy, Ali, General, Wide, Screen, G, Tv, Bling
Genre:	Comedy