This is funny, get some damn perspective!

Rating: 9/10 (17 December 2006)

Firstly I would like to say that sometimes I genuinely worry about the world today. I admit that I went to see this film with very low expectations, I thought that this film was going to be, quite simply, a typical "American" comedy*, and yet, I still went to see it. This is because I am not so full of myself that I can't enjoy a film for what it is. A bloody good laugh! Not everything has to be deep and meaningful. As I've said above get some perspective, ITS JUST A FILM!
*slightly slap stick with little or no respect for subtlety or wit (no offence, this is sweeping but far from applies to all American comedies)
I take media studies and am therefore required to suffer such "classic" films as Citizen Cain week after week and I can tell you now that some mindless entertainment can go a long way. I believe that many of the people that claim that they are the only real film fans because they can appreciate such films only say it for affect. They're just another of the unwashed mass that really just wants to enjoy a die hard film once in a while. The same group of people that make it so that I cant go into a restaurant without having to order something I wouldn't want to pronounce let alone eat.
Films are not a status symbol, just watch what you want and let others do the same.
sigh anyway my main point is that many of the people that claim to not find the punch lines funny appear to have missed the joke all together. I didn't find that the joke was Borat (the ignorant foreigner) not understanding the complexities of America. The joke is at the expense of those he meets. Not because they're female or Jewish but because by putting the person in front of someone that appears ignorant, you allow that person to expose themselves and their own ignorance and that's exactly what happens, at one stage he even convinces a car dealer to tell him what car is best for running over gypsies. If anything, you're upset because the joke is at your expense, and mine, normal people and they're perceptions of others. Sasha is a very clever man and I would say that this definitely comes through in the film. Comic Genius!