Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Alan Keyes, Spirea CiorobeaDirector: Larry Charles
Studio: 20th Century Fox
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release: March 6th 2007
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DVD Review
Sacha Baron Cohen brings his Kazakh journalist character Borat Sagdiyev to the big screen for the first time. Leaving his native Kazakhstan Borat travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.System Requirements:Run Time: 86 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 024543419693 Manufacturer No: 2241969
User Reviews
The "AIRPLANE" of the 2000s . - Rating: 4/5
If I were Jewish or a conservitive Christian this movie most probably would had offended me . My sense of humer always has been a little on the dark side . This movie had me laughing from beggining to end . It was so outragious, that it was cerebral . I had to watch it 5 days in a roe . All I can say, was I thought it was a very very funny flick . Then again, that's just me .
not as funny as I was told - Rating: 3/5
OK: expected it to be hysterically funny
(???). didn't finish it-gave it away. crass. disappointed
I disagree that it's too vulgar - Rating: 2/5
I like the premise. A lot. Plus Borat has a presence to him, and his mangled grammar strongly reflects what I've encountered in my 9 years in Asia.
Like my title says, I don't think it's too vulgar. I'm not easily offended. Rather, I found its humor too predictable. It set up these great situations and then got a little lazy in writing its way through them. It's an independent film which, unlike Hollywood pablum, doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence. But in the end I just didn't laugh much.
This is much better than anything out of the Crocodile Dundee franchise, just to pick one example of "foreigner in U S of the A" comedies of the "fish out of water" variety. But I quit after 30 or 40 minutes because it was just somehow missing something. I can't quite say what. Deep thought? Follow-through? A supporting cast that should've remained unemployees wannabes flipping burgers? I have no cultural learnings to make benefit for you here.
I really don't believe this is a two-star movie, by the way. It is too glorious for that. I really wanted to give it 2.5, but that's not an option here. Then I saw it was averaging 3.5, which strikes me as a bit high, so I was cruel just to bring that average down. Go ahead and shoot me.
A brief comment - Rating: 5/5
With dialog like "When you go to America, don't do too much raping--only women," and "You mean the guy who put his rubber fist up my anus last night was a homosexual?" you know you're not watching Leave it to Beaver or even All in the Family. Borat is basically an outrageously funny and obscene take on the idea of the uncultured barbarian who goes to the "big city" to see how the other half lives, and has various outlandish adventures along the way. From the 5000 year old Sumerian story, The Epic of Gilgamesh to Midnight Cowboy and hundreds of other stories and films, this idea has provided an inexhaustible gold mine of funny and outrageous material for storytellers for thousands of years. This movie is no different; it's just far more risque, outrageous, and possibly tasteless, but loses none of its comic potential for that. Cohen and his partner (can't recall his name) are both superb in their roles and the whole cast really looks like they're having a good time with this outlandish and uproarious farce that constantly looks like it's going to spin out of control. Even the most jaded movie fan should find something funny or just different in Borat.
Great Movie! - Rating: 5/5
All they have to do now, is send a redneck to another country, and see the review......
