Borat

The uproarious "Borat" holds humanity’s most cringeworthy attributes to the sublime ridicule of its Kazakhstani namesake. A surefire descendent of "Blazing Saddles," its elevated vulgarity and whip-smart social commentary make this one of film’s great satires, and one which can claim deadbeat parentage over parodies from 2016's "Sausage Party" to 2019 record label spoof "Stadium Anthems."The remarkable Sacha Baron Cohen is Borat, a Kazakhstani TV reporter sent to America to report on its greatness. In New York, exposure to a “Baywatch” episode leads to a Pamela Anderson obsession, and a cross-country trek to make the blonde icon his wife. Arguably, the grand aspiration of “Borat” rests in the fact that Baron Cohen's character is one of a few that isn’t a real person: It’s a brilliant commingling with reality programming as Borat engages with unsuspecting Americans on his journey to secure Pamela.By speaking unspeakable things and revealing their outrageousness, “Borat” sits in mustached greatness in the throne room of film's best satires. - (Was this review of use? If so, let me know by clicking "Helpful." Cheers!) - WATCHED THIS? THEN WATCHLIST:  "Blazing Saddles,"   "Sausage Party,"   "Stadium Anthems."

I heard a lot about this movie and had it on the back burner for years...Watched it and was bored. Not disappointed.The jokes were just boring...There are far better jokes made in older 90's sitcoms than this movie, dare I call it a film...Try it out...maybe you will like it but the humor has not aged well...BORING/10.

This is clearly a hit piece on Republicans from start to finish. Shame Sasha had to get political. Dude really used to be funny but this is just a poorly acted anti republican film that’s an attempt to make them look bad. Much funnier when you mess with everyone and not be so one sided Sasha. Who paid you to make this trash?

Sasha Cohen is a brilliant comedian and has more guts than any warrior. This is a hilarious comedy that did not have a script for the most part. It makes an ass of the most narrow-minded, blood-thirsty, and cult-like culture that has dominated half of America for close to three centuries, and currently at its heights.

This utterly false and dishonest narrative on Kazakhstan culture and life is not only insulting to them yet, moreover, the film makes fun of innocent bystanders who are non actors. I tossed it - twice!

stupid and not funny

HILARIOUS movie. I found it so funny that I bought copies for both of my sisters who also loved it. (We are grandmas, too). I can be going about my day when I might think of a random scene in the movie and I begin to giggle out loud. Borat is perfect as he acts innocently and some of the funniest parts are the reactions of the people who he encounters, such as the news station folks. One scene of the young college boys in the motor home were offensive; however, it contained a perfect lesson in human relations: If a woman gives her body to a man he won't call her back. Why? Because he doesn't respect her! Spoken honestly by a drunk college boy and true as can be. I give this movie a High Five!!p.s. My husband can't understand why I laugh at this movie! And I can't understand why he doesn't understand.......

Borat is one of Shasha Baron Cohen’s most outrages movies. He poses as Borat a hapless reporter from Kazakhstan sent to the United States. What Cohen and his production company did was walk up to people posing as Borat and not tell them it was going to be part of a movie. He would then ask and do ridiculous things to see how they would react. Only a few scenes were staged such as the opening where Borat explains himself and introduces the audience to his village in Kazakhstan. It took a huge amount of time to compile all the footage because obviously people would do different things and not all of it was film worthy. What finally came out was hilarious and crazy.The first scene in America is an example of what the film would be like. Borat gets on a New York City subway and introduces himself to the passengers by shaking their hand and then trying to kiss them on the cheek. Two men cuss him out. Then he picks up his suitcase and lets it open and chickens jump out and he chases them through the subway car. It just goes from there.In doing so he caught some really off the cuff moments as well. At a rodeo for example a man says he thinks men with mustaches are Muslims and might be carrying a bomb. He gets picked up by some drunk college kids who say that they wish America still had slaves. It’s amazing what people would say and do around a total stranger.It’s really like a performance artists in a one of a kind film.

I bought Borat as light family entertainment for the Christmas season, having enjoyed it enormously when it first came out.At the time, its political incorrectness was part of the appeal. But it hasn't aged at all well, and now what once seemed to be risque and edgy now seems to be just drawn out tasteless tedium.On the other hand, Borat's mankini will always be the stuff of legend.

I like gypsy tears, very much.a conundrum for you, I hate sacha baron Cohen acting in anything, but with this movie, his only watchable role, it actually worked, and it was funny while it lasted.He developed this characters on his tv show, and managed to extend it for a movie release.Borat, a tv news reporter from the real life Kazikstan ,suited his actual real world professional talents, that of youth tv interviewer , probably taking the piss out of the kids no doubt.That being the secret of His success, and it is indeed a trick and a conundrum, assacha is not able to act anything else convincingly, in fact he is dire , worse than any amatuer . Yet he believed in Borat so much that he pulled it this one thing off masterfully .politics drove him , was his motivation, and is the key to his comedy.He thrives on and relishes making fools of people who have stupid political and are morally judgemental, yet he managed to not only trick the supposed real life cast he confronted with his zany crazy Jew hating boffoon, Borat, he also fooled the cinema going public worldwide into thinking he was not being racist himself, when he chose to label everyone in Kazakstan a antisemite .Because SAcha really believed in the serious satirical points he was making, and because he wanted his character to be believed by his unsuspecting dumb AMerican victims, he had to place his character of BORAT as coming from a real world , identifiable country.Much to the outrage of the Kazikstani people and government, originally, but who seem to have learned there is nothing you can do about it, especially when the us army has recently invaded your near neighbours. bUt that is the power of Hollywood, they can sometimes convince you comedy is funny even when politics is not.

The free-running sequence in Casino Royale may be breathtaking, but it doesn't quite manage to provide the best fight scene of 2006 - that honor goes to the notorious one in Borat which, like Casino Royale, also involves testicles in an example of dedication by an actor that makes Christian Bale's weight loss in The Machinist look like phoning it in. You have to admire Cohen's cajones (which are on view in more ways than one) as he goes above and beyond the call of duty in his determination to stay in character no matter how hostile the environment he's helped to create. It's pretty easy to spot the faked or partialy faked sequences - the friendly Jewish couple who rent them a room, the children at the ice cream truck, the Pamela Anderson finale - and most of the victims that aren't faked are more than deserving of their fate (the racist rodeo impresario, the frat boys) or handle themselves well (the feminists). Even the villagers currently suing can't really have much of a case: the moment an extra agrees to put a d***o on as a prosthetic arm, it's pretty obvious they're not participating in a documentary. (Hell, they're not even real Kazaks, so it's not as if they're playing themselves!) And yes, it is very funny even if, like most comedies, it does run out of steam in the `serious' last act.Although there's been some criticism of the exras on the DVD (and it's a shame the great trailer is missing), it's a decent enough package.

Seen this film a few times now but couldn't not buy it for the ridiculous low price , it's one of those films that makes you cringe days after you watch it , side splitting is an understatement, still it would only appeal to those those with a warped sense of humour

I gave this DVD this rating because I find this type of humour funny.I like the way he has no qualms about asking stupid questions somewhat like Jonathan Routh, of the Candid Camera TV show, and also most time seemingly getting an answer.However, I did feel that Sasha Baron Cohen occasionally bordered on the edge of stupidity.I would recommend this to anyone who has a somewhat simple humour without any one getting hurt in the process, unlike some who appear on the “You’ve been Framed” show.