Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Pros: A few scenes that illicit a guffaw or two.
Cons: Potty humor in abundance (to the point of insanity), exploitive, vulgar nudity.

Movies don't happen in a vacuum. Some movies have a profound effect on the people in the background. For instance, Michael Moore has made a living out of using trickery and deception to get people to make statements to him that he can then take out of ...

Pros: Utterly hilarious; insightful perspective on American culture
Cons: Some viewers will find the content vulgar, disgusting, or offensive

Humor and drugs have a lot in common. Both can be therapeutic and both can be lethal. Compared to humor, anything else with as much potential for uplifting flagging human spirits is either addicting or fraught with health risks. Few people have ever ...

Pros: History in the making.
Cons: Choose your audience carefully

This probably won't be my standard comic spew. I'll try to spice it up with a "Shmoo-ism" or two but if I’m reviewing a movie that 16 people have already reviewed… that probably means that I have something to say and have glossed over a diatribe ...

Pros: Ugly, skinny, hairball chasing women is BIG HOOT. Americans caught in net - HIGH FIVE!
Cons: Ugly, skinny, hairy actor with fat, ugly, hairy male atop him... not enough real Kazahs

Andrei Codrescu is a Romanian Jewish immigrant, arriving in the USA in the 1960's, living as a poet, first in NYC, then New Orleans, and then San Francisco. Finally, he decided to learn to drive, the true American identity-card being a driver's license. ...

Pros: Charles and Cohen combine for a refreshingly original side-splitter...
Cons: May be too extreme for some audiences...

Over a quarter century ago, Andy Kaufman became the most controversial comedian of his era by using cultural icons as a motif in exciting and outraging audiences with a confrontational style of performance art. Not since Kaufman have we seen the ...

Pros: The energy and comic vitality displayed makes you laugh and think about common prejudices
Cons: at approximately 10,000 gpm (gags per minute) not every gag is going to work.

The point of Borat, starring "Da Ali G Show"'s Sacha Baron Cohen, lies in watching people and strangers around him react to this character whose persona mixes every backward and racist notion about Jews, men, women, homosexuals, Muslims. Borat hails ...

Pros: hilarious!!! good story, non-stop jokes, real footage, tongue-in-cheek anti-Americanism, etc. etc.
Cons: sometimes the real and set footage mix badly...oh and can be offensive to some...

I've been looking forward to this film for some time, having long been a fan of Da Ali G show and I got to say "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" doesn't dissappoint! It is simply one of the funniest ...

Pros: Most.
Cons: One scene.

Very rarely do I admire a film so much that I would fight to the death for it. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is an important film because it exposes the often racist and ignorant nature of many ...

Pros: A chuckle here and there
Cons: Practically everything

Who would have thought that a comedy starring what seems to be an inconspicuous unkempt East European schmuck would be the most controversial feature film of 2006? Several ‘victims’ of Sacha Baron Cohen’s elaborate hoaxes failed to find the humor in ...

Pros: Absolutely funny, Cohen never breaks character once
Cons: It gets very ugly, sensitive or conservative people will get upset

I had low expectations for Borat. I thought it just looked stupid. I thought it was the kind of movie that I didn't want to pay 10 bucks to see. It looked like one of those movies that gets dumped in January when the studios are unveiling their trash ...

Pros: I had the ability to shut it off when I wanted to.
Cons: That it was made at all, would be one big con.

I know that "I hate it" isn't a critique, but it fits. This movie is the worst mess of stuff I've ever seen. My daughter rented the DVD and wanted someone to watch it with. I reluctantly volunteered. All it managed to do was to reinforce the original ...

Pros: Everything
Cons: It will be grotesque and offending to some people.

Being the Ali G show fanatic that I am, I was unbearably excited and almost surprised that Sacha Baron Cohen was releasing a movie based on his Borat persona. Upon hearing what were perhaps the most differential opinions from numerous sources, I ...

Pros: um...funny
Cons: vulgar, offensive, disgusting, and so on

Borat is one of the most vulgar, offensive films I have ever seen. It's also one of the funniest. Not since Life of Brian have I laughed so hard and so consistently. It's been variously praised (as a brilliant, subversive satire) and ...

Pros: Excellent acting by Sacha Baron Cohen and Ken Davitian, Moments of humor
Cons: Not consistently funny, Repetitive, Not so much satirical as revealing

Every now and then, filmmaker Michael Moore (who did "Fahrenheit 9/11, reviewed at: h ttp://www.epinions.com/content _145214312068 ) will put out a movie he recommends on his website and recommend that those who ...

Pros: social statements, humor, unique concept, satire
Cons: may be too crude for some viewers, under 90 minutes

Borat (2006) is perhaps one of the most hilarious films I have ever seen. This film was in the category of you either hate it or love it when it was in theaters. I would advise you to not listen to the bad reviews that claim it is just comedy based on ...