Oh, boy, this is such an unfunny movie...not!

Rating: 8/10 (2 December 2006)

British actor Sacha Baron Cohen has made a name for himself in his Ali G show in which he plays up to three different characters, the main one, Borat a reporter from Kazakistan and Bruno, a German homosexual. Since Ali G already had his own movie, it was only a matter of time, before the foul-mouthed and perverted Borat got his own movie, however this time the movie gets a special twist, unlike the previous movie, Chohen decided to approach the character with a mockumentary. The plot is pretty straightforward, all the way from the wife-abusing, incest-prone, neighbour-bashing, rapist-dwelling, awful ping-pong playing, inept disco-dancing, sexually-suggestive sunbathing, Jew-hating, and rundown country of Kazakisthan, mild mannered reporter Borat is sent by his government to do a documentary about the United States so that he can learn lessons for his glorious nation. However during his trip, Borat falls in love with Pamela Anderson and embarks on a journey across the country to find her and marry her(don't worry there's a specific plot point that clears all confusion given by the synopsis). The movie is a laugh riot from start to finish, however some weak jokes emerge from time to time, but I'll get into that real soon. Perhaps the closest thing Borat resembles most would be Jackass Number Two and,of course, most of the stuff(scripted or not) you'd find on Youtube and other video-hosting websites. Of course, has you'd likely expect, most of the time it's obviously scripted as so is the nature of a mockumentary and as a comedy it's pretty funny. Sacha Baron Cohen is amusing as he makes this anti-Semitic and amusingly disgusting character look heartwarming to the audience, Ken Davitian also provides some great laughs as Borat's traveling partner and producer of his documentary(his fighting scene with Borat is both hilarious and gross). Most the cast, be actual people playing themselves or actors obviously playing regular people(I doubt real Kazakistanni's were used here) do a pretty good job in making this look like a true funny documentary. The jokes are pretty good, the weakest ones, however, are the ones we had already seen countless times on The Ali G Show and the US version. Why? Well, because, like I said, we've already seen them and the ones in this film do not provide anything new, which indicate perhaps a lack of fresh material. The dinner scene and some interviews(insulting the feminist society, for example which was used in the earlier Ali G movie) were pretty much rehashes of the same material, not to mentions the movie drags a bit before the end. Since I enjoyed laughing my butt off over most of the movie, I didn't have time nor the patience to separate the scenes that were in fact scripted from those that weren't, but as the movie obviously labels itself as a mockumentary, you probably shouldn't bother taking it seriously in the first place. Congratulations to Cohen for making a raunchy and bold comedy. Here's hoping for a second Ali G movie and/or maybe a Bruno movie.