Love it? Not me!

Rating: 1/10 (26 April 2007)

I suspect this a movie you either love or hate and I'm firmly in the latter category. I love a good comedy and I'm no prude, but I can't enjoy someone making a complete ass of themselves.
As Borat Sagdiyev, Sacha Baron Cohen pretends to be a native of Kazakhstan visiting the United States to marry Pamela Anderson and bring back to his people his new found knowledge of American culture. The fool as a comic device has a long tradition in theater allowwing the audience to laugh at an inferior's mistakes. It is also humorous when a clever satarist makes those he encounters who see him as ignorant are revealed as foolish themselves. The movie fails when Baron Cohen plays both the fool and the satirist acting as a fool.
The journey across country in an ice cream truck is one of the few elements of wit without being offensive. Of course these days offensive sells.