Review: Borat

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Directed by: Larry Charles
*ing: Sacha Boran Cohen
Ken Devitian

Rating: [10/10]

Nothing much, can be said about Borat as it does not possess a so-called specific plot, storyline or message. It is simply a weird, gross, naughty and sinful pleasure at the movies!

Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Boran Cohen, also known as Ali G) is a very popular journalist in Kazakhstan, who is gifted a trip to the USA by the government to benefit his homeland with the modern and useful culture, he can learn from the Americans.

Thus, Borat sets off with his obese producer Azamat Bagatov (Ken Devitian) on a mind blowing adventure to the US of A!
What follows are hilarious, crazy and sometimes grossly inventive circumstances as Borat travels all through America and meets people from all walk of life.

He tries to impress a stand up comedian with cheap "handicap" jokes, interviews old women, sings at the Rodeo, fights and chases his producer (both fully naked) all over the hotel with an exaggerated black box censoring Borat's pubic area, drives a minibus interstate, buys fuel worth 17 cents, brings a prostitute as date for dinner and falls head over heels for Pamela Anderson. I cannot mention all he does because there is so much crap he does!

The director claims all the scenes where Borat creates havoc are really shot without disclosing Borat's identity and are not enacted. I fail to agree though as some of them do look staged, especially Pamela groping scene!!!

Sacha Boran Cohen as Borat is amazingly vivid, funny, believable and goofy! He becomes the part with ease and also adds that crazy accent which takes time to get used to. You can't help yourself but fall in love with him from the first reel. Ken Devitian as the lazy, obese producer lives up to Borat's enthusiasm and vibrancy.

For me (I make this very personal), Borat is the most amazing, weird, entertaining and goofy comedy I have EVER seen.

Borat will make you experience the messaging phenomenon 'LOL' (laugh out loud for nerds) for REAL. You will laugh till it hurts unless you are strictly vegetarian!

Get Borat and I guarantee, you will make a copy of the DVD to keep forever…

-Abbas Dalal.
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