Crude, boorish, offensive... and funny!

Rating: 7/10 (30 September 2007)

This is one funny film. Those who just want to revile it for breaking all of society's taboos just need to get over themselves and laugh.
Borat comes across as an anti-Semitic, racist homophobe, but remember, folks, Cohen is ACTING! He's an actor, people. And he's a comic. He's supposed to tell dirty, offensive jokes. That's his vocation.
What's really offensive, yet hilarious, is the way the people in the US are exposed as the racist, homophobic rubes they really are.
And when I saw Borat and his traveling companion Azamat get into their hotel room wrestling match, I almost laughed myself sick. I'd never seen a display like that before, and I hope I don't again, but at the time I saw it, I thought my heart would stop. When this encounter spilled over into a real estate brokers convention, well, that was all she wrote.
Don't bother with this if you're an uptight airhead. You won't enjoy it. But if you enjoy laughing at jokes that play on others' inhibitions, well, you'll have a good time.