Jagshemash! "Borat: Cultural Learnings of...screw this" is a offensive movie, thanks to the skillfully annoying 'clown' Sacha Baron Cohen, that will create massive haters for its extreme mock/satire. But, as a hater of the movie, I knew that the elusive film wasn't lying about their greedy, selfish, unfriendly portrayal of us; they were correct of our foolishness.

"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit" is a movie that is sometimes so funny you could sh*t blood and sometimes even that funny, that you are actually pooping blood.

A classic. If you have to ask, you will never know.

Raunchy, sick, and somewhat disturbed, Borat is full of laughs.

I simply cannot understand why this movie has been critically acclaimed. It does not make sense for me, at all. It is not an intelligent comedy. There are only a few sparse and quick, as a matter of fact, funny moments.

If you're easily offended(see those that voted 0)don't watch the movie since you know what you're getting yourself into. This movie is hilarious while taking us on a whirlwind tour of American hypocrisy.

Finally was able to watch this film... Certainly not the best "mockumentary" of all-time ("Spinal Tap" will never be dethroned), but Borat is pretty damn close. Despite it's vulgarity, for the most part, this film is very clever. I love the satirical fun poked at white Christian America, if you managed to catch it... I must knock off a point for that completely unnecessary nude fight between Borat and his producer (pointless shock value), but otherwise, Borat is a delight!… Expand

I have nothing but admiration for Sacha Baron Cohen as a comic, writer and actor. He is a genius at finding and poking society's soft spots. As the character BORAT, Cohen has brought to light all the things our Western societies are most afraid to acknowledge. In fact, compared to BORAT most so-called "comedy movies" these days miss the point completely. BORAT is hilarious!!! By totally obliterating the boundaries of decency, and by highlighting the massive gap between what actual people espouse and what they really think - especially their prejudices - BORAT has done more than any other recent movie to revitalize the comedy genre. From start to finish, this movie is WONDERFULLY OBSCENE!… Expand

Wah wah wee wah! This film is hilarious - I was rolling around my chair when watching this in the cinema. Simply genius.

This movie is a GREAT SUCCESS! top stuff!

I really disliked this movie a lot, but a couple of parts made me chuckle a bit!

I'm really trying to think of the reason this film got so many good reviews, but I can't. The movie had very few funny moments, although I didn't sit through the whole thing, it was too crude and boring.

Extremely funny. I thought a couple of sequences fell flat, but on the whole it was hilarious.

I can't imagine why you would like this if you are American, Jewish, gay, a woman etc. It is very offensive. But if your not, then this is an amazingly funny film. I Enjoyed it very much. First Class.

It really wasn't that great.

Amazing film. Those who dislike it simply don't enjoy the blend of humor provided, pure and simple.

"WOW"-This is probably the first thing many people said at their first glance at this movie. Not only because of how funny it was, but also because of how Borat was able to say things that we all want to say but don't think is appropriate. definitely an awesome movie. HIGH FIVE!!

This movie wasn't funny at all. I cant understand the high scores.

Hilarious, but disturbing.

Horribly crude. Not funny, just stupidly crude.

Horrendous, with glimpses of adolescent humor.

Side-splitting irreverence from start to finish, but surprisingly a ringing indictment on the ugly underbelly of American society. Loved it!

Non-stop gut-bustingly funny. For those horrified at the "adolescent" humour; it is you who are the children, blinded by the lower thinking, unaware of the satire. You are the ones we are lauging at. Go Borat! High-Five!

Sacha Baron Cohen is a fantastic satirist. I literally bust a gut laughing every time I see this movie. It's the funniest film of all time without a doubt.

It's OK to hate this movie, to call it sexist, racist, anti-semitic, unfunny etc. What's not OK is to make inferences about the intelligence of those who find it funny. Sorry to burst your bubble but if you hate it you're not in an enlightened minority who weren't "sucked in." There are intelligent people with different tastes to you. Otherwise you're defining intelligent as "someone who agrees with me." I hope none of you would break up a friendship or marriage because the other person found Borat hilarious. Peace.… Expand

I personally find this movie to be an amazingly funny satire on the casual racism and prejudice that seems to make up parts of America, rather then a serious film - and it does this greatly.

High expectations, big letdown. While it has its funny moments, it dragged at times. And dragged. And dragged. Surely Cohen could have come up with more funny stuff--or edited some of the lulls out--to fill the whole running time. If you're a fan of gross-out comedies, you'll like this.

This movie is over-hyped garbage. I don't understand how this movie has such a high Metascore and some really good movies have such low ones. The entire Borat Metacritic page is a testament to how unreliable professional critics are at telling a good movie apart from a bad one.

One of the funniest, if not the funniest movie I have ever seen. Jack P, while the movie is awesome, if you literally bust a gut every time you saw the movie, you would probably die.

Literally the only movie I ever felt was worth buying so I could watch it over and over again. This movie is raunch and hilarious and really does fit its premise of revealing what America is really like.

How anyone can say that this film is not a genre defining if not comedy-REdefining film is unthinkable. By having a character so seemingly oblivious to the boundaries of acceptability laid down by western culture, he expertly exposes the racism and hypocrisy evident in American society. This is a masterpiece of psychological and subversive satire. People who attack this film are narrow minded and ignorant, perhaps not so much offended as they are scared by the revelations of America's metaphorical skeletons in its closet.… Expand

Want to see a movie that your mommy and the evil government doesn't want you to see? Then prepare to wet your diaper in glee because its Borat. Believe it or not, I actually saw this one with my parents. I remember that day it was at the cheap theatre just in case it sucked and we got our moneys worth $1 but I can never replace the time lost. To start off, the jokes weren't funny and repetitive a bad combination in my book. The running joke is that he is from Kazakhstan and doesn't know much about America which is totally ignorant because... the funny thing is.... people in Kazakhstan know more about America than Americans know about Kazakhstan. Sometimes, it seems that Ali G, pulls down his pants and shits on the culture which is as insensitive as the "American" culture Ali is trying to portray. After the movie I didn't even have to ask my parents what they thought, they straight up said," Maybe if you cut out all of the story you could have put it on a crappy version of SNL, Madtv perhaps, and spared everyone of the story." That was my dad... My mom,"It seems like they put all the best jokes in the commercials, which could have been on MadTv as a fake commercial." And I said,"Ya, the movie based itself on a joke that just sucked." And they both concluded, "Ya, we kinda saw that, we knew it was going to suck, we just wanted to see the movie that was supposed to be revolutionary." ("Ya that movie was pretty forgettable,"... "What movie?" And we all laughed) that part didn't actually happen but it pretty much summed up how we felt. Its actually funny I wasn't going to see the movie until my parents took me because I didn't want to see the movie that spawned, "High Five", "Great Success", and "Very Nice" the phrases I heard everywhere too many times and I didn't think were funny at all. And it seemed like everyone was watching it because it was controversial. Why did I give it a 3? I think that the movie actually tried to make a good joke and completely failed in execution.… Expand

Absolutely brilliant comedy! NIIIIIICE as Borat would say. Never have I laughed as much as when watching this film. You just cannot stop laughing! :D

This movie is HILARIOUS! I saw it at an advance screening and am planning to go see it again when it opens. The best comedy film I have seen in years. Edgy, fresh and comedy in its purest form. The whole theater was dying of laughter throughout the whole movie. Well worth the admission price.

I have had a month to think about this film, and there is nothing worse than stating the newest is always the best, or what ever popular is great... but this is perhaps the funniest movie of all time.

Parody aside, this movie is racist to the core. The humor is crass and humiliating--and purely there for shock value. There is nothing intelligent about this movie--and satire is supposed to be somewhat smart, at the very least.

Saw this at the Toronto Film Festival. I do say it with hesitance, but I consider this the funniest movie of all time.

The critics have this one bang on. I actually saw a preview of the movie almost six weeks ago in Toronto, but lemme tell you something: the jokes that you get from "Borat" are unbelievable. Half of the movie you'll be saying "I can't believe he just said that/did that." It really is offensive, shocking humour...but when you compare it to the comedies recently - this movie cannot be touched. You'll have to watch it twice cuz I guarentee you'll laugh and miss some parts. I also guarentee some people will leave the theater offended. Movie: Very Nice!… Expand

This film is dangerous. Because you'll be laughing so much that you won't get a chance to breathe...

By far the funniest movie since 40 Year Old Virgin. Maybe even since Anchorman. If you like any of Cohen's other work you will LOVE this movie. The only people that won't like it are those who are offended and not openminded enough to realize this is a satire. Maybe the best comedy I've EVER seen. And that's including Caddyshack.

Before seeing the movie i thought it was going to be at times hilarious and then just skimming by in between. Instead it was never rib cracking hilarious, but it was generally amusing all the way through. I'm not going to say this is high satire or high brow humor, but the jokes do take a second to sink in and though I wasn't on the floor laughing i was smiling hard on the inside.

The professional critics are absolutely totally nuts. A couple of funny lines but then the movie starts to drag and drag. If bathroom humor is your bag and you are a teenager then you will love it. Otherwise not worth your hard earned money. Awful!

D.L. calls this film "racist to the core," which is a fair charge. Borat in his diatribes against Jews is racist through and through...until you take off the fake mustache and the bad suit to discover the British and Jewish Baron Cohen, who has been brave enough and witty enough to confront the racism lurking behind the veneer of American culture, pulls it into the limelight of a major film, and leave us ashamed for who and what we are. Borat tries hard to be the biggest idiot in the world, but he can never quite compete with his unwitting co-stars, few of whom are brave enough to stand up to him and many of whom exceed Borat in bigotry. Whether you find Borat's character hilarious or disgusting (and my vote is for the hilarious), you'll also leave the theater with a gnawing in your stomach that one of those idiots standing beside Borat could easily have been you.… Expand

While it is basically a one-time show for people who aren't offended easily who can hold an open mind, it is one of the smartest and most socially-driven movies to come out in a long time, cleverly disguised as just another Hollywood comedy flick. I dislike gross-out comedy, and I tend to dislike comedy that makes you feel very uncomfortable, but I absolutely love smart comedy, which here, trumps all poop humor. In addition, the situations Baron Cohen places himself into are so dangerous and outrageous that you can't help to laugh and wonder if it is scripted comedy. What it says about our social issues is something that can be studied again and again. This is genius at work. However, if you are easily offended, avoid. Actually, go ahead and see it. You just might look at yourself a little differently afterward. I know I have.… Expand

What a very good movie. I had a smile on my face the entire time. Although, i was expecting straight forward humor... it was actually a lot deeper than i expected. If you look at it as a satire of how we as american's are depicted through the eyes of a foreigner, the movie delivers an even stronger message. I have to see it again... ...this one is one of the movies that will make you want to quote it for years to come.… Expand

Borat is the bomb. It is the type of comedy that (yes) reaches the depths of shamelessness and outrageousness that blow your mind in a way you're probably not ready for, but will probably cause you to laugh, hard. However, aside from the shock humor, and more impotant, is the satire and nude exposing of rascism, bigotry, and general human roboticness that this movie exposes. Only a movie with 90 percent toilet humor can get away with the level of political and social satire that this movie does. It is an incredibly funny, but also brave and honest film that hopefully will inspire more independent thought in Hollywood and (to some degree) Americans and the world as a whole.… Expand

Honestly one of the funniest films I have seen all year and maybe one of the funniest I have seen ever. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is so much more than what people think it is. The satire in the film goes very deep and interesting. We needed a movie seen through the eyes of a foreigner. It reveals the honest racist bigotry, the way we feel about certain topics, and just the honest cruel truth about people in this country. Yes the movie is not PC, it can be racist, anti-semetic, and full of sex and toilet humor, but if you get past that this movie will have you laughing for the entire 82 minutes. I quote Borat about this movie, "Very nice!"… Expand

Very funny, but also very far from the funniest movie ever. Also, very forgettable.

We speak politically correct, while hiding our real prejudices, biases, and yes, hatreds. If someone from an alien culture visited us they would probably judge us as bizarre. Sacha Baron Cohen took this bizarre culure and slapped us across the face in open challenge. Deal with hypocricy or else!" I was forced into laughter, but it hurt, deeply. Others have held a mirror to this culture�39;s face, but never at this angle. It captured our most unattractive side.… Expand

Stunning.

I don't think there was ever more than 30 seconds that I wasn't being entertained.

This movie works on two levels. It is a Jackass-meets Easy Rider for adolescent minds who love crudeness. It may appeal to more open-minded people who appreciate social satire. Cohen and his writers don't explore the satire any further than having Borat cluelessly utter and do the most offensive things and showing how Americans react. Some people on his southern route from New York to L.A. exceed his unassuming crassness, racism and sexism. Because they have clues, they are mean. Others show their better natures and either try to assist this bumpkin or draw the line on decency. As bad as the movie makes Kazakhstan look, it makes the United States look worse. Yes, you will probably laugh, but there are different reasons for laughter. Sometimes it covers a sense of discomfort. There is a lot of that kind of laughter in this movie. That said, the hand-held camera work is very effective. Many of the small parts seem to be played by non-actors, making the story more real. The 90 minutes did not drag for me, and I followed with interest to see how many taboos Borat would break. I lost count.… Expand

It's scathing satire, but there have been other scathing satires. It's low brow humor, but there are tons of gross-out comedies. It's a mockumentary that mixes reality and fiction, but other shows and movies have done that. It's slapstick, but so are the Three Stooges and Charlie Chaplin. It's surreal humor, but so is Strangelove. It's a road movie, a buddy film. But most of fucking all, it's a mixture of everything i just listed in the mst fabulous way, and this mixture of so many different strands of comedy, done well, will obviously create its own totally unique blend. Because what is any original concept, but merely a great mixture of previous concepts. In short, this is a very unique, original, even groundbreaking movie, and in our generation where most concepts are rehashed, that is praise enough, But somehow, it also manages to be a consistently enjoyable, funny-from-beginning-to-end film. And that alone is also rare enough. It didn't make me laugh quite as hard as some critics said it would, but it had me giggling the whole time, and with the other qualities i just mentioned . . . how can i really give this lower than a 10? It's a landmark.… Expand

A hysterically funny movie if you are not familiar with the comedic genius of Sacha Baron Cohen and if I were one of them I'd rate this a 10, but as someone who is a Cohen junkie it was very funny but it had that "been there-Seen that" feel to it, more like one of those SNL spinoffs that are already too familiar by the time they come to the big screen. I really loved this movie but there won't be a need to see it again.… Expand

Amazing.... I was afraid my expectations were set too high, but it totally lived up to them. I feel especially bad for people who don't this film.... it's nice!!!

I was laughing so hard during this that I literally had a few spasms. Definitely a new comedy classic, in the league of "Airplane", "Animal House", and "The Producers." The unscipted scenes at the rodeo and the formal dinner were pure genius.

Watching Borat is a lot like getting tickled: you laugh, but that doesnt necessarily mean you enjoy it.

I honestly haven't laughed this hard at a movie since the South Park film. You definitely have to check the P.C. attitude in at the door before you see this one. I would think you would really have to have absolutely no sense of humor to not understand what exactly Cohen is up to with this film. 'Borat' is really quite an ingenious comedy. It's very stupid as all get out. And yet it's also very, very smart. There are moments in here that are both laugh out loud funny and then frightening as hell. As funny as this movie is, Cohen and co. really paint a painfully ugly portrait of American culture. The hypocrisy, racism, sexism, jingoism and homophobia on display are unsettling. And at the same time, just as you're cringing with embarrassment or disgust, you start to laugh. 'Funniest movie ever'? I doubt it, but it's on a short list of candidates. I know I pretty much laughed the entire 80 mins. of its running time. Oh, that hotel wrestling scene!!!!! It's one of the best movies of the year.… Expand

I pissed in my pants laughing. Only a genius could ever come up with comedy of this calibre. Truly explores American culture and how people are gullible to the point of hilarity. If you are offended easily, stay away from this film, but if you can appreciate a good poop joke, prostitute joke, anti-semitic joke, penis joke, feminist joke, NOT joke, then you will appreciate this film in all its naked glory.… Expand

I cant believe how close this film is to a perfect 100 ...looking forward to it was part of my problem... yes it was funny but not hilarious... crude and offensive on behalf of some still ignorant individuals... the mockery was lost about 20 mins into the film then i wasnt buying any of either as a film nor a joke... i dont recommend this film because again it was funny but not hilarious like all those promising reviews ..… Expand

This movie was crude, vulgar, politically insenstive and yes I liked it. You don't want to laugh but you will.

Borat's simple politcal underlyings and true, gold comedy allow for a great time. It leaves no American to spare and has no shame. Some scenes caused me to laugh harder than I have for a long time. Absolutely loveable.

I am a major league fan of Ali G and Borat too, the HBO TV version and I went to the movie with an open heart and the highest hope. Is this the Emperor's New Clothes phenomena. I can't understand the critical acclaim. The movie is pure dreck, garbage of the first rank. There are only a few bits that work. In addition the confusion about what is scripted and what is not scripted and who is an actor and who is an innocent victim is distracting. None of the brilliance of the TV show is to be found here. Take my word for it, the reviewers are misleading you.… Expand

THE best comedy film of the 21st century has been born. Sacha Baron Cohen is a comedy genius. Every part of the movie gets more and more hilarious. To Some: If you don't like the comedy; your brain is one-dimensional. Tweek it around. There's my tip.

There is a lot to be found here... most intelligent, and not so intelligent, humor of the first degree. This movie surprised the heck out of me, and the only way I can see it being given a low score is if you were too dumb to understand the underlying meanings of all the jokes or are too stuck-up to let loose and enjoy the crass humor. 9.5

Dreck-schmeck, Peter D. I saw this movie today and my face almost hurt from laughing so much.

This movie has it's appeal to a certain demographic. It's crude, and yes, sometimes screamingly funny. It will no doubt make Cohen big, very big in the U.S. Sometimes it reminded me of looking at Seinfeld with a big mustache trying to do Steve Martin's 'two wild and crazy guys' routine.

The movie does not live up to the TV show it is based upon. As noted, being on the big screen, there are new demensions unlike the TV show: an 80 min story line, questions on what is real and what is not, and actual happy/sad feelings toward Borat. While there are good moments throughout, overall it is disapointing. The bottom line is that the movie is not as genuine as the TV show, making the laughs not as good.… Expand

Brilliant and hilarious. Borat somehow manages to surpass its massive hype. Darkly comic and endlessly watchable. I'm already itching to see it again. Now if only Criterion would conisder adding it to their collection once it hits DVD...

Funniest movie of the year, or even last 2-3 years, hands down. I could see why some people wouldn't like it, it really takes some big risks, and shoves some issues in your face you might not be used to dealing with. (maybe some of that man nudity was a little too much, but still hilarious in context). all things said, i'd pay to go see it again, and probably again after that, it was that funny.… Expand

This film is the first big budget manifestation of the new form of humor that has been gathering steam since the turn of the millenium, fronted by the Stewart / Colbert ticket and Mr. Cohen himself. And, thankfully, Borat, as he would call it, is a "great success." I, and the entire audience around me, was head-over-heels for almost the entire film. This movie succeeds in both amusing the viewer and making him or her more aware, and that is what this new generation of comedy is all about.… Expand

I HATED the movie, and I laughed all through it. Interestingly, despite it is humorous, it is degrading. I hated it because it's low-grade humor: bodily function, bathroom humor; bigotry; shock-jock-type of appeal. It is reminiscent of Andrew Dice Clay and Howard Stern. It's cheap. We, as a society, can do much better, and we have in the past. I can appreciate the skill used in compiling the film for what it is, but the degrading status yet remains. There are higher forms of humor, more appropriate for humankind. Someone said it better than I can: "A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists. When the level of existence of the artist becomes impure, so becomes impure the art itself to the deterioration of the society."… Expand

This movie was flippin' hillarious! I love Da Ali G show, and this movie was just perfect

When you're laughing at the movie long after it's over. That's genius.

I agree with the people below me who say its much different from the TV show, you wonder whats scripted and all that. Even with that in mind, i still thought it was a hilarious movie, the funniest i've ever seen (Not the BEST, the FUNNIEST). If you've seen the TV show, I warn you its pretty different. If you've never seen the TV show, i recommend this movie.

Some funny moments but completely runs out of steam with about a third of the fim still to go. Very overrated unless you checked your brains at the door or had a lobotomy. This works as a short skit but not as a feature film. Avoid.

Possibly the crudest, rudest, and most offensive movie I have ever seen. I was squirming for half the movie, but laughing almost the whole time. It doesn't get old like some tv show to movie conversions. Some of the wildest and most hilarious things I have ever seen in a movie.

About 18 very funny moments, 3 gross ones (hairy fat men should not wrestle - naked - you have been warned!) and about 148 amusing inside jokes. The chicken steals the show in several segments, the racist overtones are everywhere, the jokes on jews are especially funny since Borat (Cohen) is jewish in real life. this show could have been better, but still delivers about 80% of the hype. go see it but remember to leave your "politically correct" coat at the door.… Expand

Very funny in many parts and interesting for the vision it presents of parts of America that many never get to see and the ignorance that pervades it. However, the narrative is a weak skeleton holding together what are very funny bits. In this sense the movie fails for trying to be more than it is. The crowd I was with loved it to death, but I left feeling I had already seen most of it on HBO, and in a better format. Good for a laugh but for $10 I wonder a bit.… Expand

I have 6 brothers and adore crude, random, and intelligent humor. I don't see ever giving this movie a 10. It's interesting to watch, but really just a compilation of skits. I never laughed from down deep. South Park had me in fits, but this is not really ground-breaking stuff. I wouldn't watch this movie again, and I doubt it would achieve cult status as suggested. It falls short of the potential and and the expectation.… Expand

Some critic compared Cohen to Chaplin. Chaplin used pathos. Cohen was just pathetic. Social commentary? Yes - on the state of art today. Angry, mean spirited and juvenile. I agree with Peter D who felt this was the Emperor's New Clothes phenomena. Right on Peter. Cohen is the flavor of the month soon to be forgotten.

This guy is very funny but for a real fan, the movie misses. It moves a bit into being a little mean spirited (evnen though sure it's fummy), the full theater really did not uproarisly laugh that much, it's a little sophomoric, and if you know his humour there's not much new here. My suspicion is from looking at reactions of those leaving, they leave dissapointed.

Borat it bases its laughs on low-grade toilet humor. I don't think for one second believe that its a "social satire" or a "smart comedy" as some are claiming. This is frat-boy humor, period. Not only that, but most of the laughs come from the xenophobia implied by the 'weird Eastern bloc foreigner' who has incestuous relationships, is rude beyond belief, and has no social grace. It's a bit funny, but mostly it's just cheap high school grade yucks. Haha, look at that guy, he has sex with his sister. Isn't that HILARIOUS?? Actually, no-- it's not that funny. The funniest elements are mostly products of the embarrasing situations that come up, but many of these situations are excruciatingly painful to watch, especially when Borat is a jerk to people who are genuinely being kind to him. That's not very funny, in my opinion. It's rather mean-spirited. Yes, you'll laugh, but it's all cheap, fleeting humor. Despite all the hype, this movie isn't anything special, it's not a timeless classic, and most of all, it's not a "smart comedy" as some are claiming. This is cheap, fleeting humor.… Expand

This has to be one of the most insulting, base and least funny "comedies" of all time. The laughs were mostly that of embarassment or disgust. I love to laugh and have a reasonable tolerance for crude humor but this was just not funny and the biggest waste of money I've suffered in years. Don't go! If you must see it wait for the DVD. It will probably be out in 3 weeks.

I saw the movie Borat and was very shocked and disappointed about the degrading humor, but even more importantly, sad that anti-Semitism is being made into humor. There is NOTHING funny about what happened in World War II to the Jews, the gypsies, and all mankind. Today, man suffers for it still. That today’s “civilization” can poke fun at this is unspeakably tragic. This movie made me fully realize, once again, what a deep slide mankind is in that this would pass for art. To all my fellow men and women, please wake up, stop wasting your lives. Do something meaningful to help mankind. Aspire to higher states of being, states of mind. Uplift yourself into quality thought. What you think and what you do are what you are. Spending time with a movie or communication like this only further degrades you and all of us. We can all do better.… Expand

Lots of exteremely funny moments. I didn't think it was as amazing as most critics seem to think, but it was ok. I was absolutely disgusted at times, but I think Cohen did a great job exposing some of the horrors in our society in a humorous way. Definitely makes you think. Cohen's performance was also fantastic. A great actor.

Yes its humor can be lowbrow, but you don't need to be Noel Coward to be funny and Sacha Baron Cohen is incredibly funny and his acting is fiercely adept. This film made me laugh harder than any since Monty Python's Meaning of Life. It's crude, uncomfortable, shocking and utterly hilarious. To dismiss it juvenile is to completely miss the point. If you don't get the joke, sadly you may be butt of it.… Expand

It is social satire. It is smart comedy. It is one of the most brilliant films to come out in a very long time.

What is this world coming to? Did I really read that the professional critics gave this trailer trash of a movie a perfect score of 100? If so, this makes a mockery of the entire film industry. Don't get me wrong teenage males will find this bathroom humor very funny, but seriously, this film drags on for what seems like an eternity. How many times can you repeat the same tired act? It's like a child having unlimited access to all the ice cream he wants. After a few hours of eating the treat the child becomes sick to his stomach. Borat has that same effect as the comedy wanes very quickly replaced by the same old same old tired scenes. This is a movie only idiots will love.… Expand

Am I missing something? I understand that this was a sarcastic spoof of a very small country by an English Jewish actor who is using bathroom humor to make his point. Why pick on this tiny country and make all its citizens look like fools? He could have used a ficticious country but to denigrade this small country is wrong. The jokes were cute at first but then became painful to bear. For young males to hail Borat as a King is bad enough but to see the critics review this trash as if it were better than Gone With The Wind is a bit too much. This documentary-comedy is simply awful in my opinion and way too long. Very much forgotten after I left the theater.… Expand

A brilliant satrie. To all the people saying it's toilet humour, well done, you're right. If you're too narrow-minded to see past the anti-Semitism (Cohen is Jewish) to how he uses this to show us how ridiculously prejudiced our society really is then I recommend you go watch The Guardian, at least your patriotism will be affirmed. To everyone else, go watch this film with an open mind, you'll be surprised how close to home it strikes.… Expand

Flavour of the month? Alan G that is a lie. Cohen has been around since the late 90's with Borat and has been a revelation in British comedy. I've never watched a film with a smile on my face from start to finish. And the climax, though clearly staged was a huge shock. Film of the year by far. Go on America, smile!

**To all of those giving this movie a 0....this movie was not meant to be art, its meant to be entertainment. If you cant find humor in this, you shouldnt have wasted your money on a ticket then.*** Its a 10, id give it a higher score if I could. I laughed the whole time, if you can find humor in anything, you would've found it funny too. It really is one of the funniest movies.

This movie is fantastic. Sacha Baron Cohen takes the proverbial mirror and forces us to look at our own views. This induces a mix of feelings, some funny, most painful to bear and acknowledge. If you look down a couple of posts, you can tell how effective this movie is at doing so. Amber L calls the USA a "small country." This is almost laughable. Our countries power knows no bounds. Amber, you forgot about the movie after you left the theater? Then why come and post about it after you left the theater? Interesting.… Expand

One of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Combines the intelligence of Steve Martin, the confrontational manner of Andy Kaufman and the oddness of a Peter Sellers character. Long live Borat.

Pretentious kretinism.

I loved the Borat's skits and was a bit afraid they would not work in a feature length movie... Well they do. This is humour at its best, when performed on unsuspecting persons, with a good dose of improv. Sasha Baron Cohen is a highly intelligent actor, never shying away from crazy situations. And in the end the movie itself is so clever, you understand Kazakhstan is not such a backward country, and the US and A is not filled with bigots and braindeads. You understand those were hyperboles and you were looking at yourself all along... and you feel good about the catharsis the movie provided to you. Thanks you Borat for making benefit to us. High five!… Expand

cohen brilliantly inhabits a character of his own invention. when he performs in the staged scenes, the mood is a bit different, more conventional. the gross out toilet stuff definitely detracts. i suppose that stuff is there to guarantee the imbecile young male demographic, which was never cohens audience to begin with.