Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film is entirely scripted—and with all of his Ali G characters completely mined, features an entirely new character—yet it still bears some of the tried-and-true hallmarks of his earlier work. Once more Cohen plays a guy with a thick foreign accent, whose myopic, blithely ignorant behavior is meant to satirize our own secret prejudices—in this case, a wealthy Middle Eastern despot who arrives in America (“The birthplace of AIDS!” as he exclaims) and, despite condemnations from NATO, President Obama, and Hillary Clinton, is allowed to indulge himself in all of our finest things. Like Megan Fox, for example, who plays herself as an extreme version of those celebrities who gladly turn up at the birthday parties of unscrupulous foreign dignitaries, literally whoring herself out in exchange for some jewelry.