Pure Funny

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 2007)

The first time I watched this movie was in Spanish and I laughed so hard the neighbours banged on the walls. Immediately I'd finished I stuck it on again in English and started laughing just as hard and continued the whole movie through. Fantastic dialogue that can best be described as one long practical joke on the sensibilities of the movies many unwitting stars. Some come of worse than others.
Some people just can't take a joke and some people are so stuck up in their prissy little vacant conservative ideals and family values culture that they can't even recognise one. This movie is pure funny in a way that some people are just never going to get. That's probably why this movie has 101 pages of terrible reviews posted, no doubt, mostly by exactly the sort of people this movie is laughing at. They don't like being laughed at  simple as that.
The humour is course and sarcastic. The "racism" that some complain of is hilariously caricatured and anyone that's genuinely offended by it needs to keep in mind that many of the racist jibes are against the Jewish and Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) is Jewish. It's humour without the artificial limits of the politically correct and the obscenely limiting illusion of conservative, family values, American Culture. Not one second of this movie takes itself seriously and the drive, from start to finish, seems to be to make the people and the events as ridiculous as possible with great success, but of course it is actually the reactions of the people themselves which provide so much of the humour  the fear and aggression they show to this smiling and unusual visitor. Borat is a make believe idiot springing from a racist and vacuous culture. The other stars, the unwitting ones, are a variation on the same theme but without the excuse of being comedic characters to fall back on. I'd classify it as genius.
From Pat Haggerty, the stultifyingly dull and unoriginal humour coach, to the guy on a New York street that runs away screaming simply because some one tries to say hello to him, the movie is slice after slice of reactions that are simply incomprehensible to most Europeans and I'm sure a matter of concern for many free thinking individuals in the USA. It's laugh after laugh at people that take themselves too seriously with the added charm of a few who just don't know how to take the unbelievable things being said to them. It's got some of the funniest dialogue I've ever heard and some scenes I'll just never forget.
It's brilliant - a hilarious look at the elements of the great mixing pot that never learned how to mix.