This mildly funny movie about an ousted dictator holing up with the daughter of a single mother in a typical suburban environment with the cliché high-school mean girls can only be regarded positively in the sense that it is great learning lesson for upcoming talent Odeya Rush who gets to build experience acting together with an icon such as Michael Caine and to a lesser extent Katie Holmes for which for this performance nobody would start jumping on a couch. Seth Green, apparently added to the cast for his name only (that has been slightly degraded in the process) plays a dentist with a feet fetishism which is an appropriately chosen weirdness that can be safely depicted for the ever perceived sensitivity of the American audience. The dictator, while trying to regain the control of his country starts to educate the high-school-er in subversiveness which she starts to put into practice by overthrowing the realm of the mean girls without much moral concern. There's no explanation given to the fact she has a crush on a religious freak who dives into bed with one of the same mean girls and both are in fact headed for a happy end (save for a neck brace after a failed suicide attempt) when the inevitable happens as the dictator is being apprehended, jailed and extradited. The acting overall isn't bad but the story is weak, these actors deserve a better script.
Review of Dear Dictator
