Borat [Blu-ray]

Sacha Baron Cohen is a comedic genius. He also places few limits on his work leading to a lot of scenes in his movie that really push the limits of good taste. That’s all on display in Borat where Cohen poses as a reporter from Kazakhstan and travels across the United States interviewing people.Cohen’s sense of comedy is apparent in the opening scene as he walks around his hometown which includes a kindergarten where the kids have AK-47s, where the mechanic also performs abortions, and introduces his sister as the number four prostitute in the country. It gets even better when he arrives in New York City.Cohen’s style is to play his role and not tell other people he is acting. Thus he gets on a New York City subway, tries to kiss guys on the cheek and then releases two chickens on the train. It’s like a performance artist gone wild.In the middle of all the jokes Cohen uncovered some of the many flaws in America like the head of a rodeo who said Muslims were all terrorists and that gays should be hung. Another time some drunk college kids said that the Jews and other minorities had all the power in the U.S. and asked if women in Borat’s home country were his slaves because that’s what they wanted out of their women.It's a one of a kind movie.

This movie will keep you laughing, on edge, not knowing what to expect for the entire ride!

Borat

OK, so by buying and watching this film, I succumbed to all the hype, some of it utter nonsense, that preceded its release. Masterful spin, I'd say. Anyway, unless you are one who takes everything literally and/or are one of those who doesn't appreciate humor that denigrates (What other kind is there?), then you should find Borat hysterically funny but...But what? Well, the word is about that all of the scenes in Borat (except the one with Pamela Anderson) were spontaneous, that is to say that the people meeting Borat actually thought they were contributing to a documentary about America to be shown on Kazakh TV. I'd say that after watching closely several times that while some people may have been caught off guard, others surely were in on the game. Though New Yorkers' reactions to Borat trying to kiss them is entirely believable, some other scenes were not. I can't imagine the scene at the rodeo where Borat butchered the national anthem, nor can I imagine that Borat could get away with defecating in front of the Trump Towers in full public view without being challenged. The scenes toward the end where Borat and his assistant run nude into a meeting of mortgage brokers taxes its credibility as well. Then there is the scene where Borat sleeps next to a campfire on the steps of a mega-church and hasn't been rousted long before the congregation begins to arrive. Come on!Then there is something that perhaps the film's producers missed: Borat's appearance on the evening news in Jackson MS long before he and his assistant got anywhere near Jackson. Watch closely, unless you are geographically challenged, you'll see what I am saying.Beyond all that, there is a lot to laugh at. Sacha Baron Cohen's character causes you to confront some of the crudest and most outlandish stereotypes about others, particularly about Jews. There is the Running of the Jew back home in Kazakhstan where the object is not to let the Jew get the money, there is the idea that Jews can shift shapes and that the new form can be mollified by throwing money at it (must be a peculiarly Eastern European myth, not even the Nazis tried to sell that), then there is the idea that Jews will cunningly kill, eat and rob Christians. The scene where the traveling pair went to a bed and breakfast that turned out to be owned by an elderly Jewish couple is just hilarious. Other stereotypes are confronted as well: about gypsies, about blacks, about gays, about evangelical Christians and even about Southern whites.Some of the scenes tut-tutted in the press as being horrible I see in retrospect as being just cleverly spun, like the scene where Borat asks the gun-shop owner about which is the best gun with which to defend himself against Jews. The owner told him, but he didn't sell him a gun, did he? Ditto the man in the car lot who told Borat what speed would do the maximum damage to a crowd of gypsies with minimum damage to the Hummer that Borat was trying to buy. If indeed the answer was spontaneous, my view is that the car lot owner considered the question a joke since where would one find a crowd of gypsies to plow into in the US?What's my favorite scene? It's Borat returning to the dinner table at a fancy dining club trying to find out where to dispose of the turd he is carrying in a baggie and the hostess then having to show him how a toilet is used.My caveats aside, don't try to read too much social commentary into Borat though its there for those who seek it. While its not clean, its great fun and some of the deleted scenes featured in the bonus section will have you roaring as well. Some of the movie is downright silly, but overall its still one of the funniest I've seen in a while.

It’s a very nice movie

Don’t hesitate-just rent it!

One of his only funny movies

If you're Azamat-sized, forget about the tee shirt!BORAT (2006) is easily the wackiest movie made in many a year. It's extremely politically incorrect, kinda juvenile in spots and just one huge laugh, that is, if the insulting of Jews, women and "retards," or seeing a nude 400 lb. guy in all his flabbiness won't put you off your popcorn.The full title (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan) gives a sense of how our hero, as portrayed by Londoner Sacha Cohen, fractures the English language. Kazakhstani TV reporter Borat was originally one of three Cohen characters on the half-hour BBC-TV comedy series,  DA ALI G SHOW  (2003). This movie expands on his anti-Semitism, misogny and penchant for misspoken scatology as Borat films a documentary of his travels from the East to the West Coast of America.Borat is based on an incredibly funny doctor that Cohen met while in southern Russia. Those of us who appreciate a good belly laugh are truly grateful for this chance encounter.Erran Cohen's fanciful national anthem "O Kazakhstan" has a tune and lyrics that immediately invade your brain. Here are two of its less-objectional verses:Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice placeFrom Plains of Darashik to Northern fence of JewtownKazakhstan friend of all except UzbekistanA very nosy people with bone in their brainKazakhstan industry best in worldWe invented toffee and trouser pantsKazakhstan's prostitutes cleanest in the regionExcept of course for too many scarsExtras on the DVD include outtakes (some good, some really boring) and a collage film of Sacha in character enjoying a new-found American fame that was at near-mania levels back in 2006.

The free-running sequence in Casino Royale may be breathtaking, but it doesn't quite manage to provide the best fight scene of 2006 - that honor goes to the notorious one in Borat which, like Casino Royale, also involves testicles in an example of dedication by an actor that makes Christian Bale's weight loss in The Machinist look like phoning it in. You have to admire Cohen's cajones (which are on view in more ways than one) as he goes above and beyond the call of duty in his determination to stay in character no matter how hostile the environment he's helped to create. It's pretty easy to spot the faked or partialy faked sequences - the friendly Jewish couple who rent them a room, the children at the ice cream truck, the Pamela Anderson finale - and most of the victims that aren't faked are more than deserving of their fate (the racist rodeo impresario, the frat boys) or handle themselves well (the feminists). Even the villagers currently suing can't really have much of a case: the moment an extra agrees to put a d***o on as a prosthetic arm, it's pretty obvious they're not participating in a documentary. (Hell, they're not even real Kazaks, so it's not as if they're playing themselves!) And yes, it is very funny even if, like most comedies, it does run out of steam in the `serious' last act.Although there's been some criticism of the exras on the DVD (and it's a shame the great trailer is missing), it's a decent enough package.

Borat "That is my neighbour he is pain in my a$$h0les. I get a window from a glass he gets window from a glass, I get clock radio he gets clock radio, I get iPod ge can't afford. Come in entry please this is my VCR cassette player this my 22 inch TV & this number 2 prostitute in all of Kazakhstan very nice!! *kisses woman* she's my sister"

I bought Borat as light family entertainment for the Christmas season, having enjoyed it enormously when it first came out.At the time, its political incorrectness was part of the appeal. But it hasn't aged at all well, and now what once seemed to be risque and edgy now seems to be just drawn out tasteless tedium.On the other hand, Borat's mankini will always be the stuff of legend.

I like gypsy tears, very much.a conundrum for you, I hate sacha baron Cohen acting in anything, but with this movie, his only watchable role, it actually worked, and it was funny while it lasted.He developed this characters on his tv show, and managed to extend it for a movie release.Borat, a tv news reporter from the real life Kazikstan ,suited his actual real world professional talents, that of youth tv interviewer , probably taking the piss out of the kids no doubt.That being the secret of His success, and it is indeed a trick and a conundrum, assacha is not able to act anything else convincingly, in fact he is dire , worse than any amatuer . Yet he believed in Borat so much that he pulled it this one thing off masterfully .politics drove him , was his motivation, and is the key to his comedy.He thrives on and relishes making fools of people who have stupid political and are morally judgemental, yet he managed to not only trick the supposed real life cast he confronted with his zany crazy Jew hating boffoon, Borat, he also fooled the cinema going public worldwide into thinking he was not being racist himself, when he chose to label everyone in Kazakstan a antisemite .Because SAcha really believed in the serious satirical points he was making, and because he wanted his character to be believed by his unsuspecting dumb AMerican victims, he had to place his character of BORAT as coming from a real world , identifiable country.Much to the outrage of the Kazikstani people and government, originally, but who seem to have learned there is nothing you can do about it, especially when the us army has recently invaded your near neighbours. bUt that is the power of Hollywood, they can sometimes convince you comedy is funny even when politics is not.

I like Borat, he very naughty naughty and I give him high five.I receive this and I was very excite. I like the PC Brigade.....NOT!!!!! They worse than the Jew, they very bad peoples. They make me very sad. We all like the joke, we don't make offends people, we have very good sexy time.