Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

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The movie film is a government assigned project to broaden and enlight people and glory of nation. Cultural learning is emportant to follow on global basis. We make our nation a better and more convenient place for house and living. Kazakhs are progressive and asstonishing people that with conclusion of project will have new optimistic approach in daily life in world of same people. Our film will bring the US & A closer to us. We help with needs of kazakh knowledge and Us&a culture is positive step for future of our glorious nation. (20th Century Fox)

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Directed By: Larry Charles

Written By: Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer, Anthony Hines

Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Pamela Anderson, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Bob Barr, Chip Pickering, Pat Haggerty, Alan Keyes, James W. Smith Jr., Spirea Ciorobea

Genre: Comedy

Franchise: Borat

Country: USA

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TCI | Percentile | Date Rated | # Stars (Reviews)

Stars	User	Rating
8	BillyShears	90 _92%
Very funny, very nice. Can’t wait for the sequel to come out because playing video games online will be unbearable again with my wiiiiiiife Borat impressions running wild.
6	Magb	85 _73%
Is nice! I can only echo the widespread sentiment that there should've been more of the revealing satire along the lines of the rodeo scene and the scene with the frat boys, and a little less of the obviously scripted stuff. However, some of the scripted/unscripted parts were mixed together so well that it was hard to tell which was which sometimes. Idiots getting what's coming to them, music by Goran Bregovic, nude wrestling... great success!
5	BeeDub	82 _50%
Occasionally hilarious, but just as frequently tiresome and lazy in its targets. (Frat boys and racist southerners are stupid! Who knew?) Good for a one-time watch, but little beyond that.
3	cambel	49 _20%
I have to admit that it's a a little bit smart social & political satire but it has no point and also I really didn't get which part was funny. (exc. a few scenes)
3	frederic_g54	8 _77%
Ways to watch this: on the big screen, with many of your jewish friends. Good times.
3	Lord Moe	89 _82%
Borat is absolutely hilarious. His character is so over the top, but yet so believable. The people he encounters think he's a real person and, sometimes, don't know how to react. He attacks the insecurities of our culture by attacking them head on and showing us what we look like. It's simple, yet effective. It's ingenious. Not only is Borat a smart film, it's also absolutely hilarious. It's something that everyone should experience at least once.
3	Moribunny	78 _88%
SBC at his best. The production's a bit half-assed (e.g. the soundtrack is all Goran Bregovic pieces nicked from Kusturica movies) but other than that, this is some incredibly funny stuff. Hebrew speakers will note that all of Borat's "kazakh" dialogue is actual intelligible hebrew, even the swear words.
3	fatbuddha	96 _95%
It's good to poke fun at your home country, especially when your home country is full of hicks, homophobes, idiot fratboys, and... southerners.
3	CMonster	94 _98%
One of the funniest movies I've ever seen and is what got me into Da Ali G Show, which is one of the funniest things ever put on tv. The are the big funny things that everybody talks about, but there are many subtly funny moments that I think a lot of people over look, my personal favorite being after he is abandoned and walking down road in the middle of nowhere and he throws his bag down.The chicken is in the bag and you hear a slight squak. It gets me every time.
3	Leonardis	87 _55%
I was laughing out loud form beginning to end. It's amazing that this movie was made, given some of the dialogue and things the cast and crew went through just to make people laugh and think about American culture. The scripted stuff isn't nearly as funny or thought-provoking as all of the real-life interactions Cohen and company get from real people. It has and will definitely offend some people, but I'm white, so what do I know? Definitely worth watching though, particularly for Cohen.
3	Briantf	99 _98%
Basically the funniest movie I have ever seen.
3	eveelun	70 _42%
Really funny stuff, but feels kind of lacking as a consistent film
3	MartinTeller	79 _64%
I thought it could have gone further with the social satire... often it would go pretty far but then retreat to the easy dick joke. However, it was screamingly funny throughout most of it. I really wish was there more unscripted, non-actor stuff in it.
2	fuzzleshnops	73 _47%
Sleeve of wizard...
2	backwardsuit	34 _4%
Some initially funny outrageousness but mostly just painfully awkward and unfunny. I don't know what the intentions were but I found the whole setup for the comedy to be smug and contrived and destructive in many cases. The "satire" just seems like a cheap excuse to make crude & empty gags on soft targets mostly. I don't want to sound like a total grinch but I just found this profoundly uncomfortable and not in a clever satirical way.
2	hellboy76	72 _86%
Switches so randomly between hilarious and brutally awkward to the point of almost having to stop watching. Hated the scripted stuff though.
2	Vampirella	88 _90%
LOL
2	Rampage101	90 _98%
One of the funniest movies ever! Your gonna laugh so hard your sides are gonna hurt. If you love to laugh and aren't offended easily this is the movie for you.
2	Nearphotison	80 _61%
I'm no fan of Sacha Cohen, but this movie has several genuine funny moments to it. Granted, they're all improvised, and the scripted moments focusing just on Borat are mostly throw-aways. Still, the reactions of people to Kazakh's #1 reporter are hilarious.
2	Luna6ix	62 _18%
A comedy that completely relies upon the viewer being shocked in order to invoke anything resembling humor, if you aren't shocked, this is simply boring, offensive, and stupid all at the same time. The only saving grace is the scene with Pamela Anderson, but even that is hard to watch.
2	TonythePony	61 _33%
Ingested as a series of skits this is often hilariously funny, but as a feature length experience it becomes a nauseating ordeal. The Borat segments were the funniest stuff on Ali G, not only that but his attempts to fit in were pitiable and almost endearing. That sense is lost in this US setting as he ramps up the outrageousness to beat past the patronising tolerance he encounters. A tighter focus on more deserving targets would have made this brilliantly incisive AND funny. Missed opportunity.
2	Boxcars	8 _71%
As riotously hilarious as it is offensive, "Borat" manages to hit more than it misses with its satirical exposure of America's intolerant underbelly through Cohen's humorously ignorant eponymous avatar.
2	Tripwyre	83 _81%
The Borat/Azamat wrestling match is perhaps the hardest I have ever laughed during a movie. For that alone, as well as numerous other hysterical jokes (the bear!), this is a worthy film. A big part of what makes it great isn't funny at all, however, as the movie really is a cultural study -- just not in the way it says it is. What the movie needs is more interviews and documentary stuff, because the stagey bits come off awkward and forced, and weigh down the picture. Still, Cohen is priceless.
2	vincente	93 _97%
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2	TripleSH	91 _93%
Perfectly executed. Sasha Baron Cohen is a genius. I'll take the heat: He is our generation's Andy Kaufman. He may even be better.
2	lpelliott	85 _70%
Exposes racism and sexism in America, all the while being incredibly hilarious.
2	TheDenizen	45 _21%
Kinda funny for the first 20 minutes, but then it just became repetitive.
1	PeaceAnarchy	77 _51%
I hate hidden camera type shows, but the camera here isn't hidden and this is really very funny.
1	max22	75 _50%
A very funny film that also exposes the very real side of racism, sexism, and -- on the other extreme end of the spectrum -- evangelical religion. Baron Cohen turns in a great performance that's both hilarious and endearing; when he can make you care this much for the anti-semitic pervert, while still choking you with laughter, it's something special.
1	CDNDestroyer	95 _83%
An incredibly sharp, daring, shocking, smart and above-all else groundbreaking mockumentary/comedy. As someone with an interest in politics and international relations, this film is absolutely a razor-sharp satire of the world. Similar to Blazing Saddles, this movie also attempts to point out how ridiculous racism is by strawmanning it to death while we laugh. An absolutely amazing movie that will be looked at 20 years from now like how Blazing Saddles is today.
1	Cinema_Asia	70 _56%
Pretty amusing but it's really just one long skit. Sasha Cohen is the real life equivalent of an internet troll getting real people to react with racism, arrogance, or idiocy. He's pretty successful at what he does and I admit I laughed more times than not. The only reason why it doesn't rank higher is because some of it is obviously staged.
1	xmulderx	0 _6%
When this came out, everyone I knew watched it. For months they regurgitated jokes from it to each other. They said it was the best thing ever. I watched it and couldn't bear to be around my thick-as-pigshit, accept anything friends any more. Lowest common denominator drivel. Avoid.
1	waddayanuts	34 _1%
This could have been both funny and intelligent satire had it been more believable. As is, it is just dumb.
1	Orkran Drow	50 _14%
Too embarrasing to be that funny.
1	doctor7	43 _26%
On the one side there are some genuinely hilarious parts in the film (such as the weatherman). On the other side there are parts where Cohen behaves in a completely ridiculous fashion and people react exactly as you would expect, with either shock or disgust (such as Borat running around naked). Other parts are just so awkward to watch and you feel awful for the people in them (the frat boys). In the end some of it is funny but more of it is painful to watch.
1	Kelleri	10 _2%
It's not that I didn't get it, I totally get it, I just don't like it.
1	mdruskin	80 _70%
I found the movie to be insanely hilarious, but if I haven't seen most of the jokes already, the movie would have been even funnier. The only problem is that a lot of the joke were outrageous funny, not funny funny. But there are still a lot of very smart jokes, and even the stupid hotel fight scene leads up to a good joke. Overall, 1 hour of solid non stop laughing - if that's what you are looking for, you are going to enjoy the movie immensely.
1	magdabag	88 _72%
A nice, family-friendly film for people of all ages! I would definitely recommend this for a family movie night! Is nice!
1	whomperize	87 _93%
Very different from what I expected, but the more I look back on this, the funnier it seems. Baron Cohen is a genius.
1	amosmike95	0 _0%
That was the most disgusting film I've ever watched. I can't believe I watched it for as long as I did.
1	dardan	45 _38%
Tries to be funny by being obnoxious. Instead achieves merely the latter.
1	jacobclark12	75 _66%
Its format makes it feel a little thrown-together at times, but somehow I think that is what Borat is going for. This feels like a wonderful product of its time that has only gotten better with age because a lot of the same things that the film points out as being messed up about American culture are still deeply present today.
1	JensAltmann	30 _19%
The joke gets old really quickly.
1	harish_384	0 _2%
Hate such stupid, sense less comedy where all women are treated like whores
1	coffee	83 _81%
They say, in the movie, everything about Kazakhstan is rubbish but all things about US are true. Borat is a terribly well produced and played satire.
1	TheRealJ-Ro	75 _55%
Just goes to show how culturally misunderstanding North America is. But, it was funny.
1	Boobjuice	80 _80%
Neither the film "Borat" nor Sacha Baron Cohen should be pilloried for inspiring unrelenting amounts of Borat-related catchphrases in 2006, but I'm still sore about it... real sore, Mister! Aside from being a discount warehouse of catchphrases, "Borat" was subversive and hysterical. Critics have lamented that the very audiences it satirized (the young and/or ignorant) seemed to enjoy it the most, but the part of me that is a cruel and horrible bitch finds that fact rather hilarious.
1	Manhatta	87 _73%
I've not laughed at a movie so much in my life. Borat was always one of my favorite characters, and this is exactly what I wanted from a film-length version.
1	Nathan S	3 _45%
Generally funny as hell, though some parts are driven into the ground. I can't imagine it would hold up very well upon repeated viewings, though.
1	jennac	0 _6%
Torture
1	slackerish	75 _56%
Now that everrryyyyyonee is quoting it, it's lost it's touch..
1	fuxoft	94 _98%
Not only very funny but also great satire and even touching at times (and also very offensive to lots of people and institutions)! As with the feature-lenght South Park, this movie is vastly superior to the original TV material.
1	Ytadel	6 _70%
NICE!! Little known fact: when frat boys repeatedly quote Borat, badly, out-of-context, and with no relevance to the situation, it's just as funny as the original. It's just so hilarious, and I never get tired of it no matter how much they do it!
1	tathiel	40 _5%
Maybe I don't understand the movie... but it was horrible... though interesting to watch... a lot of secondhand embarrasment going on...
1	mochajet	51 _7%
My sister told me I had to watch it. OK, it was mostly hilarious. I couldn't tell half the time what was a hoax and what was actual. Some stuff was just insanely funny, other stuff was a bit offensive, but, hey you take the good with the bad. I am supposed to watch his other one, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
1	Gilly	10 _0%
Not funny, turned it off after 10 minutes.
1	plaugher	80 _83%
A riot. I've never laughed so much in a theatre. Oh woe for the permeation into popular culture
1	elmakebabi	38 _10%
People manage to laugh at this one? Seriously? It's bloody old fashioned. Disgusting and course as well. I can laugh more while watching any Ingmar Bergman movie.
1	RealMacgyver	80 _78%
Nice movie, not as rediculously funny as I was lead to believe though. Have to respect the lengths that Sacha Baron Cohen must have gone to stay in character on this one.
1	favrewanab	30 _0%
One of the dumbest movie I have every seen. Though I think that was the point but I still hated it.
1	CosmicMonkey	40 _4%
About 5% funny fish-out-of-water comedy, 5% actually insightful social commentary, and 90% painfully racist and offensive. I can understand why the mid-2000s Family Guy consuming audience would love this, but I can't understand why dreck like this was so beloved by critics as well.
1	cagedwisdom	25 _17%
Some of it's funny, a lot of it is embarrasing and all of it is annoying. I didn't watch the whole thing, but.. It's all pretty much the same. Borat goes about making an ass of himself and those around him. I might've liked it more if I didn't think Sacha Baron Cohen was so INCREDIBLY annoying. I hate the guy. Few good laughs, recommended if you're into.. lame embarassing humor.
1	andreuzeda	20 _2%
Impossible to watch until the end.