- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
- Release Date: Nov 3, 2006
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 873 Ratings
- Starring: Ken Davitian, Sacha Baron Cohen
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- Director: Larry Charles
- Genre(s): Comedy
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Positive: 36 out of 38
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100Very nice. I like Borat very much. I think it is, as everybody has been saying, the funniest movie in years.
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100Borat is a rarity: a comedy whose middle name is danger, or as the Kazakhs say, kauwip-kater.
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80The weapon wielded by Cohen and Charles is crudeness. People today, especially those in public life, can disguise prejudice in coded language and soft tones. Bigotry is ever so polite now. So the filmmakers mean to drag the beast out into the sunlight of brilliant satire and let everyone see the rotting, stinking, foul thing for what it is. When you laugh at something that is bad, it loses much of its power.
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50The movie itself cannot begin to match its delicious high concept. It's offensively funny in places but it can't sustain itself for a feature length running time and it's not nearly as clever or as fun as it should be.
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Positive: 288 out of 430
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Mixed: 34 out of 430
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Negative: 108 out of 430
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richardr10A classic. If you have to ask, you will never know.
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WillH.4It really wasn't that great.
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