Aladeen's double goes and gives the speech for him. A speech that was written by Tamir which declares that Wadiya is going to be a Democratic country. This way Tamir can sell their country's oil and become filthy rich. Aladeen won't hear of it and starts a protest. That's when he meets Zoey (Anna Faris), who thinks he is trying to protest Aladeen and is all for democracy. She offers him a job at her shop that is completely for feminism, vegans, organic, and political refugees. Aladeen doesn't want anything to do with her.
Later he finds himself in Little Wadiya where he wanders into a restaurant filled with people that he supposedly executed. It's there that he finds Nadal (Jason Mantzoukas), an ex nuclear researcher that was designing a bomb for him. Nadal agrees to help Aladeen if he puts him back in power so he can finish the bomb. The two decide the best approach would be if Aladeen took a job with Zoey so he could get a security pass into the hotel where Aladeen's double is staying. While taking the job, Zoey shows him new ways of living and they end up falling in love.
So amongst all the ridiculous you have going on in the movie, there is that backbone cliche love story. Most of the time I would love this, but I just didn't buy that these characters would ever been friendly with each other let alone in love. They should have just focused on the ridiculousness of Sacha Baron Cohen. And even though this movie was filled with celebrity cameos and comedians that I love it was just ok. I feel like all the best moments in the movie were seen in the trailer.
Rating: **
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