Blazing Borat

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2006)

While not at the side splitting-level of Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, Borat clearly delivers as the best laugh-per-production-dollar movie in the history of bathroom humor. It is a nice combination of literally in-your-face slapstick and sidebar sight gags that can send you back for a second look. Mr. Cohen is excellent as a Hebrew-speaking Jew hater, but it is really the supporting cast that turns every lesser joke into a gut-busting wedgie. While never an academy award winning performance, every supporting role begs the question "are they real or central casting"? I still have no clue.
One role, Miss Pamela Anderson's, was clearly her best movie performance. I suggest everyone go to the theaters to see this. Part of the film's experience is feeling the tension build in the audience as Borat sets up a joke that could easily start wars in thin-skin parts of the world.