Stupid on the outside...

Rating: 9/10 (23 July 2008)

...and brilliant on the inside! I, for some reason didn't see this movie at first because I heard that it was pointless and gross. They were only half true. Actually, make that half of their half.
To the common man who wants the point of a movie spelled out to him so he can tell his buddies about it, will not like this movie because the point of the movie is not what Borat is trying to do for his "country" or "Pa-mella". He is basically criticizing Americans attitudes toward something different or not the "norm" and it's evident by the awkward situations he sets up, the reactions he gets (almost always what he expects i.e. negative), and peoples hatred toward this movie; which is ironically the reaction he was expecting but thankfully there are some people out there who do get it.
The half truth of the truth that I mentioned before is that this movie is kind of gross. Most of the grossness is pretty funny though, excluding the scene that was my least favorite hence the 9 (naked fight), but it did play a part in the "story" so I'll live. I will admit that the black bar over his sh-long was hilarious and couldn't have been done if his wife had made her promise: " ... she would breaka off my c#@k."
Having said that there are too many classic scenes to list and much of it is subtle humor which is part of this movies brilliance, and a gag I sorely miss in a lot of todays in-your-face-over-the-top-so-much-it's-not-funny-movies (i.e. every "spoof" movie after Scary Movie 1&2).