The Joke's on U.S. (and us); moments of genius and echoes of Kaufman

Rating: 6/10 (27 November 2006)

BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF America FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN (2006) ** Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, (Cameo: Pamela Anderson as herself) Cohen's alter ego, Borat Sagdiyev, the Kazakhstanian 'telejournalist" makes the big screen transition in a mockumentary with the foreigner traveling across America in pursuit of meeting Pamela Anderson and in the process meeting its citizens with great skill at making the awkward and uncomfortable into an improvisatorial art with moments of genius that recall Andy Kaufman's take-no- prisoners guerilla comedy but the novelty grows weary by the film's end but I get the joke ; it's only a question if you will. (Dir: Larry Charles)