Unwatchable garbage

Rating: 1/10 (10 July 2007)

As a big fan of comedic satire, I was looking forward to seeing this film, especially after some of the rave reviews I had heard or read.
Instead, I discovered that - evidently - what passes for "satire" in this film is nothing more than a non-stop barrage of crude vulgarity and raunchy, unclever sexual shtick that can only amuse if you are hopelessly adolescent.
Don't get me wrong. I've gotten a big kick out of films like "Kingpin," "There's Something About Mary," etc. The difference between those films and Borat is that those films maximized the use of outrageous situations and assumed its audience at least had a certain level of sophistication or intelligence. On the other hand, Borat tries to appeal to a much lower level kind of funny-bone tickling, in the same way children try to make each other giggle by repeating "outrageous" words they just learned like "caca" over and over again to each other.
Borat being a fish out of water is funny by itself only so long, and you would think that after a short while, what is suppose to pass for outrageous sexual comments and potty humor would just get tiresome when there is no clever point behind any of it.
And for those who try to convince you that the Borat character (who has sex with his mother- in-law and takes dumps off busy sidewalks) has some kind of innocent or naive charm, don't buy it. Borat is not in the same universe as say, a "Chauncey Gardener" from the film "Being There."
Depressingly bad.