{"id":750356,"date":"2026-08-26T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750356\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:38:17","slug":"everybody-is-saying-the-same-thing-about-new-ali-g-movie-as-first-trailer-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750356\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody is saying the same thing about new Ali G movie as first trailer lands"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first trailer has arrived for the new Ali G movie Who Iz I?, with fans all saying the same thing. After being officially confirmed last month<\/a> by Amazon MGM Studios, the film’s first footage has landed.<\/p>\n

In it, Sacha Baron Cohen’s character returns 20 years later, with the world now “gone to crap” with “COVID, wars and Ed Sheeran”, and Ali has now decided to make a documentary in the US.<\/p>\n

We see teases of himself and pregnant girlfriend Julie (played by Morgana Robinson) seeking advice on starting a family amid their expected baby, and promises of drama, romance, plot twists and more, as well as Ali embracing TikTok trends such as ASMR.<\/p>\n

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Reacting to the trailer, however, some fans weren’t hugely convinced, suggesting that the character may have become too familiar now to go incognito.<\/p>\n

“How is anyone falling for this act? Everyone knows who Ali G is. Can’t wait,” one wrote in the YouTube comments.<\/p>\n

“There’s no chance everyone doesn’t recognize him, which means all the interactions are fake with actors, which sucks, but I’ll still watch it,” another added, a third writing: “It might be very hard for him to not be recognized after so many famous movies.”<\/p>\n

Others also expressed disappointment that the film will take a documentary format like Borat rather than the previous 2002 narrative movie Ali G Indahouse.<\/p>\n

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“Thought it\u2019d be a sequel to Indahouse. Cba to watch this if its the same Borat and TV Ali G, was expecting more of a movie,” a fan shared.<\/p>\n

“Wow, that\u2019s exactly what we needed another documentary in America. Am I the only one that\u2019s disappointed and wanted to see another Ali G movie,” another said.<\/p>\n

A third suggested: “Nice of Sacha Baron Cohen to make a carbon copy of Borat 2.”<\/p>\n

Ali G: Who Iz I? will be directed by Baron Cohen, whose character announced the title and October release date in July.<\/p>\n

“Dey haz finally made a documentary about me. And it ain\u2019t like dat crap one about da penguins, dis one haz got at least twice as much animal sex,” the Instagram caption read. “Ali G: Who Iz I? Cominatcha on 10.23 wotever dat means.”<\/p>\n

Ali G: Who Iz I? will be released on 23 October in cinemas.<\/p>\n

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Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer has arrived for the new Ali G movie Who Iz I?, with fans all saying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[147950,379,247850,381,96,190731,1156,2839,247849,223205,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-472a0fe8-6bb4-4781-b0e3-c7019bdf1315","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-everybody-is-saying-same-thing-about-new-ali-g-movie-trailer","tag-sponsored-false","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}