it's all about the timing

Rating: 9/10 (6 November 2006)

With all of the discussion of the political incorrectness of this movie, one of the best things about it is being overlooked, the timing.
Like Spinal Tap, producers have mastered delivering the joke and cutting immediately to the next establishing shot which makes the laugh even bigger.
Also the biggest laugh of the film came not from some anti-semitic, racist, sexist or similar offensive comment but from when a saddened Borat drops his bag and you hear a muffled chicken cluck. The audience had forgotten about the chicken in Borat's bag at that point. Great timing.
Yes I know I'm over analyzing this dumb movie but it's that good. Comedies are going to be measured up against this one for a long time.