A film full of incest, prostitution, bigotry against Jews, frontal nudity, and the quest to put Pamela Anderson in a bag – it was the most hilarious moviefilm of 2006. I am loving it.
Borat Sigdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen) is a reporter for the glorious nation of Kazakhstan. He have the most imperious assignment of crossing the big water to the wonderful U.S. and A to make reporting of the greatest country in the world. He’s dispatched with his faithful producer Azamat Bagatov (Ken Davitian) to make reportings in New York City. In watching American television he comes across a rerun of Baywatch and falls head over heels with Pamela Anderson.
Borat and his sister, the fourth top earning whore in his village
He quickly finds out that she live in California from some less than friendly feminists. In his country, the women people are put in cages so letting them roam freely is a new idea to him. So he convinces Azamat that they should get a car and travel across America to end up in California interviewing peoples along the way (though the real reason is for him to find and marry Pamela Anderson).
If you’re not aware I suppose that I have to ruin the illusion for you that although Kazakhstan is a real place, Borat is not. He’s the creation of Sacha Baron Cohen and is a bumbling foreign journalist who sneaks his way into various situations and the victims….err interviewees are not aware of the ruse. He then proceeds to act in some pretty deplorable ways, although the results are often hilarious. He ambushes most people in his cringe inducing ways and in one particular incident ends up chasing the obese Azamat through a hotel and into a mortgage brokers convention – did I mention that they were both completely naked?
The movie was not given much of a chance to succeed against the Santa Clause 3 which was opening at the same time. Fox was so scared of Santa that they dropped it from opening in 1,200 theaters to opening in 800 theaters. However, it was Borat that had the last laugh since his film beat the crap out of Ole St. Nick and made 110 million over its production costs.
It helped Fox studios stay in the black and made so much money that every chucklehead that appeared in the film is suing Cohen for a piece of the pie. The film is hilarious and is one of the most funny films of 2006.
Please God, remove this image from my mind
Borat is presented in anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 televisions. A separate fullscreen release is also available. Special features include over 30 minutes of “Footages remove from moviefilm by decree Kazakh Ministry of Censorship” (that’s deleted scenes for those of us from the U.S. and A.).
These are just as hilarious and offensive as the rest of the film. So they are makings well worth seeing. “Global propaganda tour” is 16 minutes of Borat visiting various places, talk show appearances promoting the moviefilm, and premieres. Even asking Conan O’Brien if he has red pubic hair, a valuable commodity in Kazakhstan, and then attempting to take it from him and also attempting to get into bed with Martha Stewart on the Jay Leno show.
There’s also a 1 minute “Musics Infomercial” which you can get on the latest technology, audiocassette, for only 80 million Tenge! A collection of trailers coming to Kazakhstan in 2028 (such as Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj) complete the features of specials. In one last hilarious touch, Fox has printed the slipcover in English and the DVD case features the Kazakhstan language and the DVD with the moviefilm on it is made to look like a bootleg.
Borat is simply one of the funniest films of 2006 and well worth watching. Go down to your rental video store and see if they have it on the Betamax and take it to your homeplace and put it in your videofilm machine. If you do not do this then you’ll be kicking yourself in your khrom later. Even if it interferes with your sexy time you must be making to see this film.
Borat finally achieves his quest
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is now available at Amazon and AmazonUK . Visit the DVD database for more information.
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