for the most part hilarious, if extremely base

Rating: 8/10 (19 March 2007)

Sacha Baron Cohen finally sees the success that he certainly didn't attain with his previous "Ali G Indahouse". Now when I use the term success, I mean in the world-wide term, as I'm quite aware he's been well known over the pond for awhile now and has enjoyed cult status in the States for a bit. However with the release of this film, he's a bonafide star overnight (well his alter-ego Borat is anyway) & with good reason as this mockumentary about a naive ridiculously bigoted, offensive foreign documentarian, Borat, touring America in hopes of wedding Pamala Anderson, of Baywatch fame, is utterly hilarious. Every time he interacts with everyday people it caused me to laugh and brought a smile to my face. The only thing that detracted from the experience of watching the film is that at one point it turned into very nervous laughter and I had to look away from the screen. (yeah,yeah, call me a prude. But if you went to see this film in theaters with other members of your family, you'd be just as embarrassed). Other than that, the film was the most i laughed in while watching a movie in quite some time. True the movie is pretty basic and not subtle in the least, true it doesn't paint Americans in the best of lights. But I found it a pretty damn good film, none the less
My Grade: A-