The funniest--and most revealing-- film in years.

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2006)

As a longtime fan of the comedic alter-egos of Sacha Cohen, I knew that I would love this film, and I was right. Throughout the movie I laughed so hard that tears were literally streaming down my cheeks. The scenes in New York were absolutely priceless, as was the "etiquette" dinner sequence, the newsroom interview, the Atlanta hotel scene, and the interrupted business meeting.
But the film is more than just situational comedy. It is also an expose of American attitudes toward foreigners, women, people of alternative sexualities, and people adhering to faiths other than Christianity. As one might guess, the results are not pretty. Particularly in the Bible Belt, Borat reveals the incredible bigotry and ignorance of many Americans. While these segments were sometimes painful in what they were revealing, in the end the joke is on the people being filmed as we watch Cohen make fools of them.
The only reason I didn't give this film a 10/10 rating was because, in my opinion, the Pamela Anderson subplot was fairly weak and detracted from the overall power of the film. Other than that, this is by far one of the best films I have seen in a long time. Cohen does not disappoint.