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		List Price: $29.98		Label: 20th Century Fox Salesrank: 64342 Released: March 6, 2007
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: UMD for PSP

Editorial Review:
Sacha Baron Cohen brings his Kazakh journalist character Borat Sagdiyev to the big screen for the first time. Leaving his native Kazakhstan, Borat travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.

Description of Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan [UMD for PSP]:

It takes a certain kind of comic genius to create a character who is, to quote the classic Sondheim lyric, appealing and appalling. But be forewarned: Borat is not "something for everyone." It arrives as advertised as one of the most outrageous, most offensive, and funniest films in years. Kazakhstan journalist Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen reprising the popular character from his Da Ali G Show), leaves his humble village to come to "U.S. of A" to film a documentary. After catching an episode of Baywatch in his New York hotel room, he impulsively scuttles his plans and, accompanied by his fat, hirsute producer (Hardy to his Laurel), proceeds to California to pursue the object of his obsession, Pamela Anderson. Borat is not about how he f! inds America; it's about how America finds him in a series of increasingly cringe-worthy scenes. Borat, with his '70s mustache, well-worn grey suit, and outrageously backwards attitudes (especially where Jews are concerned) interacts with a cross-section of the populace, catching them, a la Alan Funt on Candid Camera, in the act of being themselves. Early on, an unwitting humor coach advises Borat about various types of jokes. Borat asks if his brother's retardation is a ripe subject for comedy. The coach patiently replies, "That would not be funny in America." NOT! Borat is subversively, bracingly funny. When it comes to exploring uncharted territory of what is and is not appropriate or politically correct, Borat knows no boundaries, as when he brings a fancy dinner with the southern gentry to a halt after returning from the bathroom with a bag of his feces ("The cultural differences are vast," his hostess graciously/patronizingly offers), or turns cheers to boos at! a rodeo when he calls for bloodlust against the Iraqis and ma! ngles "T he Star Spangled Banner."

Success, John F. Kennedy once said, has a thousand fathers. A paternity test on Borat might reveal traces of Bill Dana's Jose Jimenez, Andy Kaufman, Michael Moore, The Jamie Kennedy Xperiment, and Jackass. Some scenes seem to have been staged (a game Anderson, whom Borat confronts at a book signing, was reportedly in on the setup), but others, as the growing litany of lawsuits attests, were not. All too real is Borat's encounter with loutish Southern frat boys who reveal their sexism and racism, and the disturbing moment when he asks a gun store owner what gun he would recommend to "kill a Jew" (a Glock automatic is the matter-of-fact reply). Comedy is not pretty, and in Borat it can get downright ugly, as when Borat and his producer get jiggly with it during a nude fight that spills out from their hotel room into the hallway, elevator, lobby and finally, a mortgage brokers association banquet. High-five! --Donald Liebenson

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Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan [UMD for PSP] Reviews:
Funniest Movie I've Ever Seen
2008-10-05 - All three of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters (Ali G, Bruno, and Borat) are works of a genius mind. Borat happens to be the funniest of the three, so we are lucky to have an entire movie based on him here. If you have an uptight sense of humor and are easily offended, you may be turned off to the comedy here, but remember that it's the horrible tastelessness of Borat that makes him funny. And funny he is. Nothing I've ever come across in my years has made me laugh quite like Borat. Literally the funniest movie I've ever seen.

Borat, the funniest movie in many years!
2008-09-29 - I bought the Borat movie after not seeing the movie in the theaters... If I had known how funny that movie was, I would have seen it along with many other theater goers.

Sacha Cohen is great as Borat and played the role to a tee.

He has great script expertise and fills the character with great comedic acting and carries it over off screen in the EXTRA things that the DVD offers besides the movie.

Using real-life people in their everday happenings under the guise of a foreigner doing a documentary is GREAT!!

That is where the true comedy comes out with his accent(fake) & chain-pulling plays it up.

He was born and raised in NYC, but you would NEVER guess from the movie...

I will not ruin it with movie facts & script for others that have not seen the film but do SEE it and get the same kick out of it as my wife and I did!

WELL worth the rental or purchase for the most enjoyable experience in years!

it's pathetic a movie
2008-09-17 - Borat it's too vulgar for me and in reality none person in my culture would do the things that i see from Borat, specially with the restroom.
I don't know his country but i don't wanna go there, oh jezz, what a pathetic place...

One of funniest films ever made!
2008-08-31 - I've seen this twice on DVD already, and had to buy it. The film is up there as a comedy classic. I laughed harder I think than when I first saw "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," or "Life of Brian." Borat is a genius. Don't miss watching all the hilarious additional material on the DVD that wasn't included in the movie theater version--I don't know why, because it's all wonderful. What's even funnier, is that these are real people with whom Borat is interacting... real people, which makes it all funnier and poignant and continuing in the comic tradition of Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers, and the Three Stooges. Only uniquely and hysterically and at the same time biting and gentle satirical Borat!

How to be a comedic genius
2008-08-25 - Judging by the reactions to Borat, I would have to say that you too can be a comedic genius just by following these three simple steps:

1. Fraudulently misrepresent yourself. Claim to be making a video for the Dutch Antilles, Tannu Tuva or some obscure country no one is likely to know.
2. Insult/offend the person you're talking to. Talk at length about your wife's sex organs, break valuable objects in their store, say something contrary to their political position, like telling feminists that women are inherently stupid, and so on.
3. Videotape their reaction.

There. You are now a comedic genius.