Politically incorrect doesn't equal smart

Rating: 1/10 (2 December 2009)

Borat is by far the worst piece of cinema (and I use the word VERY loosely) I've ever had the misfortune of watching.
The "movie" is basically a sequence of candid cameras and pranks made at the expenses of unaware people who are trying to deal, in good faith, with Borat's over-the-top antics.
Not only the whole thing is overly mean, but it's also brutally disgusting, disrespecting, raunchy and racist.
Cohen uses the "Kazakhstan" excuse as a way to "expose" America's racism and ignorance, while in reality most of the persons he meets and makes fun of are genuinely polite to the unorthodox foreigner.
It's just when Borat gets really really really annoying or rude, they react.
But Cohen's agenda, i.e. exposing the "good" Americans for what they are, fails miserably. In the end Borat-Cohen looks like the biggest tool in the movie. Not even the drunk frat-boys can make us forget it's all a dirty trick.
A weird foreigner you don't know is talking trash about women/random ethnicity, what would YOU do? Would you confront him or you would just stand in puzzled silence, letting him utter his incoherent rants? No, really... not even the most progressist mind would embark himself in an actual debate with a man like Borat. But of course those who didn't in the movie are racists or whatever we're supposed to label them.
Borat is the epitome of reversed racism, something that has become very hip lately. The poor excuse of "social enlightening" doesn't hold. The movie is cheap and nasty under every possible aspect. Sugarcoating it with a thin layer of (non-existent) social criticism is giving it a role and a dignity it doesn't deserve.
Borat is an appalling and sanctimonious "smart movie", who'll be appreciated either by toilet-humour fans and by those who crave so much being hip and cool who'll like anything that rides the coattail of the hypocritical "America is evil!" movement.