Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan [UMD for PSP] | ![Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan [UMD for PSP]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qrn5WNYKL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Larry Charles Actors: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Pamela Anderson, Bob Barr Studio: 20th Century Fox Category: DVD
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Rating: 607 reviews Sales Rank: 67748
Format: Color, Widescreen Languages: Armenian (Original Language), English (Original Language), Hebrew (Original Language), Polish (Original Language), Romanian (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) Genre: none Rating: R (Restricted) ESRB: Teen Media: UMD for PSP Region: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 84 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 2242491 UPC: 024543424895 EAN: 0024543424895 ASIN: B000MMMTAK
Theatrical Release Date: November 3, 2006 Release Date: March 6, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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It takes a certain kind of comic genius to create a character who is, to quote the classic Sondheim lyric, appealing and appalling. But be forewarned: Borat is not "something for everyone." It arrives as advertised as one of the most outrageous, most offensive, and funniest films in years. Kazakhstan journalist Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen reprising the popular character from his Da Ali G Show), leaves his humble village to come to "U.S. of A" to film a documentary. After catching an episode of Baywatch in his New York hotel room, he impulsively scuttles his plans and, accompanied by his fat, hirsute producer (Hardy to his Laurel), proceeds to California to pursue the object of his obsession, Pamela Anderson. Borat is not about how he f! inds America; it's about how America finds him in a series of increasingly cringe-worthy scenes. Borat, with his '70s mustache, well-worn grey suit, and outrageously backwards attitudes (especially where Jews are concerned) interacts with a cross-section of the populace, catching them, a la Alan Funt on Candid Camera, in the act of being themselves. Early on, an unwitting humor coach advises Borat about various types of jokes. Borat asks if his brother's retardation is a ripe subject for comedy. The coach patiently replies, "That would not be funny in America." NOT! Borat is subversively, bracingly funny. When it comes to exploring uncharted territory of what is and is not appropriate or politically correct, Borat knows no boundaries, as when he brings a fancy dinner with the southern gentry to a halt after returning from the bathroom with a bag of his feces ("The cultural differences are vast," his hostess graciously/patronizingly offers), or turns cheers to boos at! a rodeo when he calls for bloodlust against the Iraqis and ma! ngles "T he Star Spangled Banner." Success, John F. Kennedy once said, has a thousand fathers. A paternity test on Borat might reveal traces of Bill Dana's Jose Jimenez, Andy Kaufman, Michael Moore, The Jamie Kennedy Xperiment, and Jackass. Some scenes seem to have been staged (a game Anderson, whom Borat confronts at a book signing, was reportedly in on the setup), but others, as the growing litany of lawsuits attests, were not. All too real is Borat's encounter with loutish Southern frat boys who reveal their sexism and racism, and the disturbing moment when he asks a gun store owner what gun he would recommend to "kill a Jew" (a Glock automatic is the matter-of-fact reply). Comedy is not pretty, and in Borat it can get downright ugly, as when Borat and his producer get jiggly with it during a nude fight that spills out from their hotel room into the hallway, elevator, lobby and finally, a mortgage brokers association banquet. High-five! --Donald Liebenson Beyond Borat  All things Sacha Baron Cohen |  Borat Apparel |  Borat Soundtrack | Stills from Borat (click for larger image)
Description 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.
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Worst ever film July 2, 2009 Sarasvatia 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't think Sasha Baruch Cohen understands what comedy is. Grabbing somebody's crotch in public will elicit laughs, too. Of relief, perhaps, that Cohen didn't do this to you. Yet, that's Cohen's idea of comedy. It is precisely what he does in his "acts". It is so revolting, that one wonders why anyone would watch 2 hours of outhouse humour that was obviously addressed to the sad and dumb, probably abused, idiots who laughed at this crud. Cohen reached for the below lowest common denominator to get his guffaws. Granted I didn't see the entire effort. I left after 25mins. From the comments of people whose opinion I trust and value, I was right to extricate myself from this toxic abuse. This is the only instance where no amount of curiosity would tempt me to see it to the end. Aye, I've never walked out of a movie before. Or since. Worst ever? you ask. Indeed, yes. I've seen more than my share of bad and boring pictures, made and/or written by talentless wannabees. But this execrable effort was a deliberate effort to make racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc., look funny to the misanthropes everywhere. Cohen's hateful display of lack of talent may be his vengeful response for his failures in other media. After all, HBO can, will and does show anything only just on this side of pornography, yet the majority of HBO subscribers saw through Cohen's racism and false pretenses and brought and end to this affront to comedy and comedians everywhere. Even the least talented among them. Too bad Amazon's lowest rating is still one star. "Borat" and Cohen are 2 absolute zeros.
Cruel humour July 1, 2009 lecudedag (NSW Australia) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't mind jokes that are non-PC, but Borat isn't funny. It's simply full of cruel humour. The set-ups involve people who believe him to be genuinely from Khazakstan and they treat him with kindness and help him. In return he plays cruel tricks on them, including the fact he's a British actor (Sacha Baron Cohen) pretending to be in need of their help. According to Wiki the village (actually in Rumania) that is supposed to be his home village was badly treated "The villagers were paid the equivalent of four U.S. dollars a day each for their appearances and were told the film would be a documentary about the hardships of village life...In the film, some of the villagers are depicted as rapists, abortionists, and prostitutes for Baron's comedy movie" These are generally ordinary people. They are an easy target. They are often not public figures - though he does appear on a 'local-tv' news. For the most part these are people who, in genuinely treating him well should be beyond parody. At least as Ali G Sacha Baron Cohen interviewed celebrities and public figures.
Bear, Bore, Born, Boring June 25, 2009 Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Borat rhymes with two things : boring forward and gore backward. To turn anything hateful and disgusting into some kind of humorous item from the big trick store round the corner is not easy, but is it funny? What's more I had already seen many of these gagging choking gags in other films, like drinking from the toilet bowl, bringing your feces in a plastic bag to the dinner table for disposal, inviting a street lady to a dinner party in a middle class home, and so many others. In fact Schwarzenegger is more effective in that line of the cultural gap or shock between the good old Soviet culture and the American lifestyle when he plays the KGB officer in New York running after a couple of Georgian Mafiosi in Red Heat if I remember well. It is amazing how they have, through advertising, made this film into what it is not, a funny film whereas it is sad and even very sad to see the thickness of disrespect they accumulate and pile up in order to produce a shocked little laugh. But one thing is sure. This film represent the spirit of its time, that end of an eight year tenure that was getting so stale and so full of carbon dioxide and poor in oxygen that we were dying like a poor fish thrown on the grassy bank of a dried up river. Even the bush of the rose garden were severely wilted and close to death from drought, the drought of the absence of basic honesty and truthful freedom of speech. But that does not save the film, that makes it an archeological testimony of the lurking death in which we were drowning then. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
This is supposed to be funny, right? June 13, 2009 Jmark2001 (Florida) 2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Cohen's approach to comedy is simple: disrupt something. That something could be a pentecostal meeting, a rodeo, a business meeting in a hotel, etc. It really doesn't matter. Just find an event that requires a great deal of planning to pull off in an organized and efficient manner and rush in and be very obnoxious or offensive. Film the reactions, edit it, and you have a movie. The question for the viewer is whether it is a movie worth watching. I didn't think so. There is no wit involved here. You either think it is hilarious to mock a Christian religious service or you don't (I would like to see Cohen do the same to an Islamic religious meeting. That might be the end of his career and more.). What is funny about going into an antique shop and breaking dishes? Some of the people he makes fun of seem genuinely nice. Mocking them or causing them distress was not amusing. One star. Next time, get a few jokes.
Don't waste your time June 10, 2009 giniajim (USA) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I considered turning this excuse for a movie off about half-way through. There are simply no redeeming features. Crude stereotypes of racial, ethnic and minority groups. Gratuitous bad language and nudity. A plot and story line that is laughingly improbable. Its beyond me how it got the press it did, and why Cohen was so lauded. I guess he plays the character the way the screen writer wanted him played, but that's small comfort. The acting overall is not bad considering that it was supposed to be a documentary of travel through the US, and the folks on the screen weren't supposed to be "actors". That's the reason I gave it 2-stars ("didn't like it") instead of one! But its a bare 2-stars, maybe 2-minus! Save your money and time. Run!
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