terribly disappointing

Rating: 1/10 (19 August 2007)

I had no interest in seeing Borat - the trailers didn't look funny, clever, or interesting and I have never found Sacha Baron Cohen to be any of those thing, either. It's not like I disliked him before, I just had no interest in seeing him at all.
However, after all of the hype, I rented Borat expecting a comedic masterpiece. I thought that I would finally realize what Cohen's appeal is.
Boy was I wrong. There were a few laughs in the movie but I spent the majority of the time cringing.
The "humor" in this movie is always at someone else's expense, which doesn't make it funny, it just makes it mean.
This isn't ground-breaking. It doesn't push any boundaries and it certainly doesn't make us take a good long look at our views of the world. It's just hateful and hurtful and mean.