Very Niice!!

Rating: 10/10 (27 November 2006)

Wow.
Subversive, crude, offensive, shocking, racist, sexist, misogynistic, crass, classless and tasteless. This is also, by far, the best comedy of 2006 (hell, the last five years). Sasha Baron Cohen completely inhabits the character of Borat with such aplomb, you almost buy him completely. Everything is in-your-face and uncompromising, resulting in a barrage of some of the most unbelievably brilliant humor ever conceived.
I work in a cinema, and every time I check this film out on shift, I walk into (often sold-out) rooms of people just splitting themselves with laughter. Many of the scenes are played out very well (although the question of pre-planned contrivance comes up many times), and the dialogue will go down in the annuls of quoted-at-every-turn history. The best thing about this film, however, is that it's a big dumb comedy with an underlying core of razor-sharp observation, regarding many, many problems with our world today.
BE WARNED: Don't even think about seeing this film, if you can't laugh at yourself or taboos. I mean that. Anyone who takes things on-screen seriously, will find it very hard to sit through. Many have been offended deeply, and that's understandable. It can be very offensive to sensitive souls. But then, what the hell are they doing seeing this film anyway?