An analysis of the negative reviews

Rating: 9/10 (28 December 2006)

I agree with everything the positive reviewers say, so there's not much point in rehashing there.
However, I think it's pretty interesting, taken as a whole, to see what the negative reviewers here have to say (or, more accurately, the sorts of things that they are hung up on). Their words, ironically, only strengthen Baron Cohen's whole 'point.' Looking through the bad reviews, many people are hung up on the scene with the naked fat man and Borat. Fair enough. That was to be expected. But read through them and see just how many people seemed fit to mention a tiny, insignificant moment in the movie where a static picture of a penis is barely shown.
The movie overflows with examples of racism, sexism, and tons of other nasty things that other reviewers will have described to you. But the one thing that comes up over and over again in the negative reviews is the basically non-sexual, very brief, static portrayal of a man's genitals. The sexism and racism barely get a mention.
I'll let you draw your own conclusions.