Lowbrow humor: not that funny of watching being worth

Rating: 4/10 (6 November 2006)

I went in to see Borat completely oblivious of any reading on what the movie was supposed to be about. My brief glance of a few review excerpts led me to believe it was going to be a political satire, but in the end, it was a very tired and unimaginative brand of lowbrow humor.
The trouble is that Borat really never does anything outrageous. I guess this is because it's supposed to be documentary, but other "real" movies, like South Park (and of course, the series) and Austin Powers: Goldmember have done it so much better and gone so much farther.
Borat is mostly just a string of boring scenes, and Borat himself isn't very funny. Most of the best humor has to do with Ken Davitian's Azamat Bagatov, especially one infamous scene that truly pushes the boundary of comedy. Unfortunately, it is one of the few scenes in the movie to be outrageous enough to be funny. Most of it is just blah, amusing at best. To Borat: Try harder.