borat

Rating: 8/10 (17 November 2006)

If you haven't heard of Borat then you must have heard of Ali G, if you have managed to miss both of Saha Baron Cohen's comic creations you have either been living in a box or just don't care. The first thing to say about this film is its not politically correct, it shouldn't be offensive and it's damn funny. Borat a Kazakhstan reporter is part Mr.Bean part South Park, the only people that won't get it are either bigots, anti-Semitic or racists themselves and this film is holding up a mirror and showing you YOUR failings. Following Borat as he ventures on a trip to the US of the A to document what life is like we meet all manner of characters from the lowest (and highest) gene pools the west has to offer. A scene that really stuck in my head was when at a rodeo Borat told the crowd how his country supported the war in Iraq, cue load cheers and whooping, he then goes on to sing his country's national anthem to the tune of Americas, cue boos and hisses. This scene although funny as hell gives us an example of what Cohen is trying to achieve, how he was never shot or arrested more than he was is unbelievable. As far as the humour goes there are far too many funny moments to mention and I promise I haven't laughed that much in a cinema for a long time. An amazing thing to come from the whole thing is that some US students are trying to sue for there part in the film claiming they were duped into the scenes, when really they thought it would only be seen in a very poor country in Eastern Europe, so spoke their unbelievable sexist, racist, nationalistic bile. They are suing now because they are being shown as the idiots they are in one of the biggest box office smashes of recent times. If there is justice in the world it will be thrown out of the nearest court. If you can't tell the difference between satire and truth then this may not be the film for you, but if you can go and laugh like a drain to what I'm sure will go down as a big cult classic.