Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 211
Fresh: 193 | Rotten: 18
Jagshemash! Borat gets high-fives almost all-around for being offensive in the funniest possible way. Part satire, part shockumentary, Borat stars Sacha Baron Cohen as the gleefully sexist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic title character on a cross-country trek to learn more about our strange nation; along the way he dredges up the seamy underbelly of American prejudice and ignorance. Now the cat is out of the bag, what will Cohen do for an encore?
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 45
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 1
Jagshemash! Borat gets high-fives almost all-around for being offensive in the funniest possible way. Part satire, part shockumentary, Borat stars Sacha Baron Cohen as the gleefully sexist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic title character on a cross-country trek to learn more about our strange nation; along the way he dredges up the seamy underbelly of American prejudice and ignorance. Now the cat is out of the bag, what will Cohen do for an encore?
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Master of disguise Sacha Baron Cohen hits the road to explore America as the crude Kazakstani reporter Borat in a feature mockumentary that brings one of the Da Ali G Show star's most popular characters to life on the big screen. Sent by the Kazakh Ministry of Information to gain a better understanding of American culture and bring his findings back home, Borat and faithful producer Azamat (Ken Davitian) set their sights in New York City. When the citizens and interview subjects of the Big Apple
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The backlash just proves how deep a nerve the faux Kazakh journalist has hit.
Top CriticThe theory of comedy here is that you can get away with almost anything if you manage to make your target audience feel superior to the human beings being mocked on the screen.
I did find this to be one of the more inventive, aggressively offensive and insanely tasteless comedies in many a year. And yeah, that's a thumbs-up.
Borat is so gut-bustingly funny it should carry a health warning.
In an era of stale, formulaic comedies, this uproarious and ribald faux documentary is like a hit of pure oxygen.
Somewhere in standup comedy heaven Andy Kaufman is smiling. Possibly even busting a gut.
Borat... is a not only a very good comedy but is also an interesting sociological experiment as to how numerous individuals in the USA would respond to a man such as Borat, and often the reactions are interesting and vastly entertaining.
Frequently uproarious and occasionally side-splitting -- but it's very hit-or-miss, prone to stretches of unnecessary crudeness and flat one-liners.
Often functions hilariously as an exposé of squirming American tolerance shading into condescension toward the rest of the world
Borat is the rare comedy that operates without a safety net. Cohen and director Larry Charles' film provides constant laughter and surprises while daring the viewer to be rightfully offended.
Although I knew it was dishonest, cynical, and the ultimate in cheap-shot humor, I laughed more at Borat than at any other film this year. So I guess the joke is on me.
Borat's cultural learning is revealing, even if it doesn't adequately convey how it benefits glorious nation of Kazakhstan.
Brace yourself -- Borat is here. Not for kids.
Borat is the funniest film imaginable right now.
The most impressive ingredient is Cohen, whose inflection and timing are dead-on as he negotiates a vague accent, a native language composed of gibberish and a sprinkling of Polish, and a way of making tired American jokes funny again.
America, you got punk'd and the result is horrifying. Borat paints a picture of the American landscape that would induce nightmares were you not laughing so hard.
A rude punk-rock snapshot of an America that quails at two men kissing but cheers the notion of George W. Bush drinking the blood of 'every man, woman and child in Iraq.'
By the end, you're eager to wrap things up. Along the way, though, Borat is a helluva ride.
I must offer high kudos to Fox for creating such a humorous DVD package to go along with this film.
Like great theatre, Borat holds up a mirror to its obliviously intolerant audience ... that serves as a shocking, but entertaining wake-up call.
Borat may be marked as a clownish, regressive foreigner, but as often as not in America he seems right at home.
There is little that is subtle about the Borat film - it's a "make sex on your face" kind of experience, an onslaught of Jew, Gay, "foreign", Baptist and Texan jokes. It's also very, very funny.
Audience Reviews for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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- Borat Sagdiyev: May George Bush drink the blood of every man woman and child in Iraq!
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- Borat Sagdiyev: Do your vagjin hang like sleeve of wizard?
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- Borat Sagdiyev: My name-a Borat!
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- Borat Sagdiyev: I want to buy a car with pussy magnet.
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- Borat Sagdiyev: This is Nathalia. [makes out] She's my sister.
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- Borat Sagdiyev: Hi my name-a Borat I like you. I like sex, it's nice.
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Foreign Titles
- Borat (UK)
- orat, leçons culturelles sur l'Amérique au profit glorieuse nation Kazakhstan (FR)
