The film also inspired parts of Sacha Baron Cohen's film "The Dictator" (2012). A critic for "The A.V. Club" noted that "Admiral General Aladeen and Rufus T. Firefly share the same bloodline, representing a more generalized contempt for world leaders of any stripe, whether they don a 'supreme beard' or a greasepaint moustache." The "Nashville Scene" detected "an echo here of that funniest of xenophobe-baiting funnies, "Duck Soup"." The "Rolling Stone" claimed that Baron Cohen's film "dodges soothing convention and ultimately merits comparisons to The Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup" and Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator".