Toilet joke city

Rating: 2/10 (21 April 2007)

There is some humor in this comedy, mostly within the first half hour. But it fails badly after a while with the ceaseless toilet jokes. This is a one theme film: an eastern European yokel comes to America and exposes all of its pretensions and foibles. Borat is rude and crude; he seems intent on insulting everyone, but especially such easy targets as southern yahoos, patriots (the attack on the war in Iraq is predictable), traditional morality, good manners, and civilized life in general. For that, Borat is praised by viewers as being politically incorrect. Just the opposite is true, in my opinion.
If potty humor is your thing, this film is for you. Grownups and sophisticated teenagers should find better things to do than celebrate the repulsive.