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		List Price: $29.98		Label: 20th Century Fox Salesrank: 86871 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:
Dont spill another's blood
2009-12-08 - This is shock-humor, justified with bogus arguements like "he-is-turning-a-mirror-on-society."
People were hurt and embarrassed by this film. Real people. Like the poor people in the Romanian village which he tried to pass off as Kazak. Cohen wants to make a living by causing pain and exploiting simple people? He is no better than a Wall Street banker. He is supposedly Jewish. Well he has violated a Jewish tradition which is known as "Don't spill another man's blood." Which means... don't intentionally embarrass another person. He is a bad Jew, and a bad person.

Brilliant comedy, one of the funniest i've ever seen!
2009-12-06 -

Not-too-bright Kazakshtanian reporter Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) with a camera-crew and buddy Azamat (Ken Davitian) heads from his beloved country to the USA to film a documentary on the culture of America. But at a hotel room in New York City, he watches a TV show called Baywatch as Pamela Anderson catches his eye and decides to head all the way from New York to California as he still films his documentary so he can get with Pamela as he encounters Jews (which are hated his in country), gays, African Americans, hookers and other crazy stuff on a cross trip country filmmaking trip.

Brilliant social satire dark comedy-mockumentary from the creative genius of British comedy maestro Sacha Baron Cohen (Creator of "The Da Ali G Show") is one of his finest movies with "Da Ali G Movie" and "Bruno" which all formed a trilogy. This movie pushes no limits between taste and creativity as it's quite controversial as sometimes being antisemetic but Cohen is a British Jewish person and he defended this movie as being a satire on American culture including racism. The film is the best of Cohen's big trilogy but it may offend people but in a good way even with an unbelivable nude fight scene that has to be seen to believed.

This DVD contains only three extras which is a shame such as deleted scenes, Global PR Tour and music informercial.

Great educational movie
2009-12-05 - A great way to learn about how people in other parts of the world really live. A real eye opener!!

VILE, DISGUSTING, RACIST, BIGOTED GARBAGE. NOTHING FUNNY HERE. COHEN, A RAT,ADS MORE HATE(HIS)TO ALREADY TOO HATEFUL WORLD. SAD.
2009-10-08 - ALERT! Do not be fooled by this deceptive bigotry through comedy? as is common these days. This garbage is a prime example of personal hate, COHEN'S disguised as comedy. A hate film for people who love to hate, como, like Cohen.

Our bookclub got this and thought it would be funny. Without doubts, the most vile and disgusting piece of garbage we subjected ourselves too. It is disgusting enough in and of itself, and has made Cohen a very rich man, at the expense of endless and cruel exploitation of less educated and poor people as perceived from Cohen's own mind and prejudices he learned in his home. The bigotry and racism are so insensitive and cruel that we didn't finish it and actually returned it and obtained a refund.

The images make us sick to our stomachs to this day. This from a bunch of senoir and senior, senoir citizens.

There is enough hate in this world, without Cohen adding so much more by his owm personal hatreds in this horrid movie.



Genius
2009-08-27 - I love this movie, no way around it. The humor is very racy and offends many but it's all part of the character. Some of the stuff that he says or implies are necessary for the film to work. I would recommend this movie to anyone who does not offend easily with perhaps a little bit of a wacky sense of humor.