EddieMink

I'd advise anybody (even the most ardent Ali G fans - as I am one myself) not to buy this DVD. Purely because it consists of cut-offs and unfunny sketches which weren't available before because they either didn't work, or weren't funny. At all.

This DVD was only put together to capitalise on the success of the movie, and to make a little more bread.

Nevertheless - the DVD contains one of the finest moments in televisual history - the David and Victoria Beckham interview from last year. Every second of it is pure gold.

But bear in mind that it only lasts 10 minutes.

Buy this. And watch it. If you don't find it hysterically funny, then you must be dead. There are no two ways about it.

This will probably get the recognition it deserves in a few decades time. Which is a damn shame.

This movie is by no means truly awful. It just often feels like it. It is directed with a real verve, and there are one or two genuinely fresh touches which threaten to lift it into the same area as something watchable. But at the end of the day, the one word that describes this movie accurately is "stale".

The "script" is a horrible misfire. It tries (and fails miserably) to:

*Be hip

*Contain likeable characters

*Rip off Pulp Fiction / Human Traffic / Anything you can imagine

*Be profound

So. How do you build a film on foundations like that?

Exactly. You can't. What more can you say?

It looks nice, some of the better (Who the hell cast this movie?!) actors try hard, and the locations ring far truer than the whitewashed London of, "Notting Hill".

But trust me, you'll be bored.