Candid Camera meets Animal House

Rating: 3/10 (14 December 2006)

Folks, there's nothing new here. For those of you too young to have seen it, a TV show called Candid Camera set up outrageous situations and recorded the reactions of unwitting dupes. In this movie, the dupes knew of the camera, but had been lied to about what it was there for; most were apparently told by the film makers that they were filming a documentary for a foreign audience.
The (attempted) humor is the usual post-Animal House bathroom humor/gross-out humor/sophomoric humor. We are treated to the public's reaction as our heroes urinate/defecate/masturbate in plain view, skewer America's national anthem at a rodeo, disrupt a local TV news broadcast, ad nauseam.
The punctuation of dignity is a comic staple dating back to before the Keystone Kops, or the 3 Stooges turning a white-tie gala into a pie fight. Herein, our hero Borat disrupts a formal dinner party, excusing himself to go to the restroom and returning to the table with his (alleged) feces in a sack.
As with Candid Camera, what few laughs that may be got from this movie are, indeed, from the reactions to Borat by John Q. Public. When the comics are left to themselves and perform a slapstick fight in the nude, the movie literally isn't even watchable.