Excrement-loaded exercise in moronic humor

Rating: 1/10 (26 December 2006)

Sacha Baron Cohen defecates on the heads of U.S. (and other) audiences and many of them love it! This excrement-loaded exercise in moronic humor sets a new low point in the "epater le bourgeois" genre. "Borat" is so palpably dishonest that no sensible observer can give any credence to its manufactured "exposures" of U.S. bigotry and bloodthirstiness. Any competent documentarian would have little difficulty filming AUTHENTIC versions of the film's counterfeit "candid camera" diatribes against Muslims, Jews, blacks, women and Iraqis and packaging these in an edifying vehicle. The actual exposure of U.S. depravity is not provided by "Borat" but, rather, by the adulatory utterances of the professional (i.e. jaded, sold-out) film "critics." Those who found this film "uproariously funny" or "superbly satirical" damned themselves for their abysmal judgment and taste.
There's nothing really new here, of course. Hasn't Hollywood's movie "Academy" covered itself with shame through its long-term, nauseating worship of films exalting human cruelty and brutality? The successful career of a Martin Scorsese, for example, would not be possible in a humane and just society.
Barry Freed