This movie is horrible.
What Works…In Name Only: The magic of Sacha Baron Cohen mostly involves tricking unsuspecting people into revealing their prejudices (Borat, Bruno), and it actually works really well. But his scripted movies? Not so much. “The Dictator” was underwhelming but still worthy of your time. However, this spy comedy is nearly unwatchable. Most of the best jokes are tossed-off one liners—like a great one about how morons have made Fast and Furious a success or FIFA’s criminal inclinations—but it’s the brutalizing set pieces that will have you not sleeping for days…
What Doesn’t: I cannot unsee two men trapped inside an elephant’s vagina as a dozen male elephants “make love” to her. This is one of the many horrific images I’ll have trouble shaking after watching this movie.
What I Would Have Done Differently: Spy parodies have been going on since the days of Peter Sellers and it’s hard to know what any new spy comedy can say that “Austin Powers” and “Spy” haven’t said. I probably wouldn’t have made this movie at all, and that would be the best way to salvage it.
What is about Hollywood producing movies with humans inside animals?