Borat Sagdiyev is a TV reporter of a popular show in Kazakhstan as Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist. He is sent from his home to America by his government to make a documentary about American society and culture. Borat takes a course in New York City to understand American humor. While watching Baywatch on TV, Borat discovers how beautiful their women are in the form of C. J. Parker, who was played by actress Pamela Anderson who hails from Malibu, California. He decides to go on a cross-country road trip to California in a quest to make her his wife and take her back to his country. On his journey Borat and his producer encounter a country full of strange and wonderful Americans, real people in real chaotic situations with hysterical consequences

Ken Davitian, Chester

countries USA

audience score 335188 Vote

runtime 1H 24Min

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As much hype as there was, and as funny as the trailers were, I just felt really disappointed watching it.

As others have said, it's like as if Michael Moore directed Jackass. But Jackass doesn't really have a plot, it just happens.

Jackass wouldn't work with a plot, and this movie didn't really either.

And to make matters worse, all the funniest parts of the movie were in all the trailers. The movie was still funny, don't get me wrong, but all the stunts were pretty predictable. The comedy came with the outrageousness of what happens. There were many tedious breaks between the comedy, which just kind of killed the momentum.

I can still remember very clearly the time "Borat" came out, mainly because everyone that I seemed to interact with was talking about. The posters were everywhere, it was in the news, the hype was enormous. Somehow it took me 8 years to see it, but for a film which is incredibly topical it still feels alarmingly relevant. It's crude and offensive, and yet extremely funny because of the situations that go on. Of course, Sacha Baron Cohen shines in the title role, lampooning everything he can with no exceptions.

For anyone that's been living under a rock for the past 8 years, Borat is a Kazakh journalist who goes around tricking people into doing or saying absurd things. We meet him in a rural town in Kazakhstan, where he is sent by the government to America in order to make a documentary about their culture. He goes with his producer, Azamat, with whom he has a sometimes rocky relationship, and they meet people from all walks of life. The character is inherently funny as a cultural stereotype who is stupid and offensive, but the real laughs in the film come from the reactions of other people. Because he is often so plausible, people will do or say things that they wouldn't on US television, and he baits his targets with ridiculous situations just to see how they'd react.

It's a film based less on plot and more on hilarious set-pieces, which become even funner because the reactions are genuine and unscripted. Borat releases chickens on the subway, sings made up words to the US national anthem at a rodeo, embarrasses himself at a a dining club, goes to a Pentecostal church meeting and has a naked fight with Azamat through a crowded hotel. The stunts are all hilarious, and made even more-so by the fact that they actually happened - it's really just a standard road movie, but accentuated by being real.

At the start of the film, you try to figure out who the film is satirising through its offence. It seems anti-Semitic or anti-Kazakhstan, but it soon becomes quite clear who the fools of the film are - the American people. Borat is there to exploit American stereotypes of nationalism, rednecks, conservatives and Christian crazies. Sure, he's a stereotype, but the fact that he's so often taken as genuine shows Americans as gullible and stupid. His choice is dangerous, however, since there are many who won't understand the depth of this lampooning, and instead think it's okay to be anti-Semitic etc. In this way, the film very occasionally crosses a line in terms of taste.

The film is just over 80 minutes long, and this feels like the perfect length for it. Any more and the jokes might become tiresome - there isn't really a proper plot to any of it, just a series of vignettes. Having finally experienced it, I can instantly tell why it was such a craze and has become so iconic - it's quotable, and nearly every scene makes you laugh. In this way, it's better than a vast number of scripted comedies these days. Shouldn't we be worried about this.

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