Absolutely and Utterly a Steaming Load of Crap

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2007)

Ever wonder why Paris Hilton is famous? Has she ever done anything meaningful with her life? Is she brilliant and talented? Is she funny or principled? Is she even modestly attractive? The answer is of course, no, on all counts. But Hilton is famous because somewhere, at sometime, some idiot in a PR firm created the image of Paris Hilton, Hollywood skank and party girl. Like Hilton, Borat is an embarrassing monstrosity of a movie (the worst I've seen in MANY YEARS) that has gained in popularity not because it is good, has a message, or is even slightly funny, but simply because it caters to the lowest common denominator- idiot teenagers. I have never walked out on a movie before in my life, even after seeing some true garbage, but I finally did in Borat (with about 20 minutes to go in the movie). Anyone who finds this mindless, tasteless, low brow, stinking, festering, corrupt, and offensive drivel funny really needs to seek the aid of a professional psychologist. Now, to be fair there are about 15-20 minutes of MILDLY humorous bits in the movie. The rest of the movie is just scatological and homoerotic gibberish devoid of any real meaning or message. One reason I went to see this rubbish was its billing as a political satire  well, it's not in any way, shape or form. The political messages, where they exist at all, are obvious and clumsily handled (for example, the war of terror bit at the rodeo). The movie is totally devoid of social satire, mistaking mean spirited and deceptive pranks for insight into the human condition. The movie is often blatantly offensive, racist, and just plain stupid. Finally, though rated R, this film really needs an NC17 rating- the MPAA must have been asleep at the screening of the movie and any producers out there that have the NC17 label slapped on their movie should be able to point to this train wreck as a prime example of how their rating system is fundamentally flawed. Especially egregious are the close-up photographs of the genitals of an (apparently) under aged male (ha!, that's so funny!). Finally, I'd like to close with saying that Larry Charles and Sacha Cohen are talent less hacks and dolts. With any luck at all these two blathering idiots will sink into total oblivion never to be heard from again to the betterment of the world as a whole (and take their mindless fans with them).