This movie stinks

Rating: 3/10 (6 November 2006)

I went in to see Borat with high expectations and everything I read about it sounded hilarious. Wow, what a disappointment! Yes, there were parts that were funny -- some very funny -- but sitting through this movie was like watching a stretched out Saturday Night Live skit that should have been only 4 minutes long.
My problem with the film was NOT that the material was often offensive. To me, the more un-PC the better -- but this was just a one-joke film.
The theater I saw it in was packed and everyone was laughing, but I couldn't help but think I was witnessing the Robin Williams Syndrome where everyone laughs because they feel like they have to. Well Robin Williams is a tedious bore on talk shows, no matter how much Jay Leno guffaws like a stuck pig, and Borat just isn't funny, either, no matter the number of magazine covers or critics saying he is a comedic genius.