Borat: Silly Movie-Going Experience for Make Entertainment of Audience

Rating: 9/10 (3 November 2006)

Borat, Borat, Borat.
You will either love this movie, or you'll hate it, but chances are you'll love it. If you're easily offended, you're then likely going to hate it, but you most likely just want to see a funny movie. And Borat is the movie for you! The movie follows Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) as he travels to the US from Kazakhstan in order to learn lessons for his country and make a documentary. But when he discovers Baywatch on TV, and more importantly Pamela Anderson, he sets out on an epic quest from NY to California (where Pearl Harbor and Texas are).
The humor is what happens along the way. He purchases an ice cream truck for the trip, accidentally enters a Jewish-owned Bed and Breakfast (Borat is anti-semetic), consequently holding a cross and his money close as he speaks fearfully into the camera of how the clever, shapeshifting Jews attempted to poison him, and later buys a grizzly bear for protection after the traumatic experience.
He eventually reaches LA to meet his elusive Pamela Anderson, and funniness ensues--I won't go into further specifics.
This is a great movie and an intelligent movie. Don't get turned off thinking it's just stupid humor or just making exploitative comments about Jews for cheap laughs; nay, it goes as far as making a few sly insinuations about our own culture, insinuations we can learn from.
But, it is first and foremost a funny movie. The funniest of the year, though admittedly there have not been that many funny movies... Nonetheless, you will find abundant helpings of humor at this movie. So go, unwind, laugh. Remember, it will make for benefit humor of you.