The Dictator- Did he make a kill yet again?

After, Ali G Inda House, Borat and Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen is back with His Majesty's latest project. Has the man worked his magic or have his jokes become old and over-done?
'The Dictator' takes us through the tale of The Supreme Leader Aladeen, who is obsessed and spoiled by power, and will do whatever it takes to ensure that his dictatorship remains. He ensures that democracy will never overthrow him in his beloved Wadiya. Betrayed by his uncle played by Ben Kingsley (who was the rightful heir to his father's throne),barely escaping a murder attempt(though losing his beard in the process) and replaced by a look alike who has a thing for goats, Aladeen must now find a way to break his uncle's plan of bringing democracy to his country so that he can sell off to the oil companies. And in between comes his unusual love for Zoey(Anna Faris).
If you are a lover of Borat and Bruno and expect to be entertained to the same extend, you are in for a disappointment because this movie barely cuts it and can never be placed along the leagues of the above mentioned movies. Unlike Borat and Bruno, this a fully scripted movie, with its usual set of SCB humor.

But the punchlines fail to hit home a lot of times and the juvenile funny scenes seem overdone and you find yourself waiting for it be over (like the scene where he crosses the building from top by doing a high-wire act. How many times have we seen that??)rather than expecting it to get better. There is of course a lot of intelligent and subtle humor(the film begins with a dedication to Kim Jong II; then there is confusing statements arising from Aladeen having over 300 meanings, the multimedia game showing the Munich Olympics assassination, the news anchors having no clue and speculating and so it goes on). But the anti-semitic jokes that SCB can do because he is Jewish and the meant to be funny racism, are getting seriously overdone and unfunny. And of course the usual battalion of crude stuff-this movie has them too- the big-boobed body guard who makes her asset a lethal weapon, the dead guy's head antics, the delivery of a baby in Zoey's store. And a lot of it seems vaguely familiar. Am I the only one who thought the helicopter scene was familiar to the Airplane scene from 'Harold and Kumar goes to Guantanamo Bay'. Am I? So, I have to say this movie is a disappointment for SCB fans although it does carry a few laughs. What can I say. We expect more. Otherwise and if you haven't seen that many offensive funny movies, it ain't bad. I would give it 3 stars out of five.