Borat

Rating: 9/10 (14 November 2006)

This is way better than Ali G's movie, I wish he or Bruno were in it somewhere. This is a fantastic Mockumentary comedy with "Yuksmash" Borat Sagdiyev (Golden Globe winning Sacha Baron Cohen) of Kazakstan explaining his home life and traditions, including "Running of Jew", they fear the Jews. Basically he travels to America, New York to film his journeys to learn the American way. He changes his mind of filming there though, when he discovers his wife has died, and finds a new love, CJ Parker/Pamela Anderson from Baywatch. So he begins a long journey to Hollywood, California, with his friend Azamat Bagatov (Ken Davitian) to find Pamela, and along the way encounters many hilarious antics including punks, cowboys, politician types, drunk jocks, almost insane Christian believers, and Jews (he is obviously frightened). This is an unmissable film, and I have honestly never laughed so much at a film so much, at the moment when Borat and Azamat are naked and rolling around fighting and running around the hotel. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, it won the British Comedy Award Ronnie Barker Award (writing), and it was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. Sacha Baron Cohen was number 8 for Ali G on The 100 Greatest TV Characters, Borat was number 24 on The 100 Greatest Funny moments, along with Bruno at number 77 and Ali G at number 6, Borat was number 17 on The World's Greatest Comedy Characters, with Ali G at number 6, and Sacha Baron Cohen (as Ali G) was number 12 on Britain's Favourite Comedian. Very good!