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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543419693
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 06, 2007
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 1285
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: November 03, 2006
Editorial Review:
Description:
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.
Amazon.com:
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. and 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 finds 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 mangles 'The 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
On the DVD
'Global Visitings' captures Borat-mania in all its hype and glory, as Sacha Baron Cohen, never breaking character, promotes his film around the world. On the itinerary is Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the Toronto Film Festival, a now-legendary screening aborted after a projector malfunction. A mixed bag of deleted scenes finds Borat trying to bait more unsuspecting citizens, including an animal-control worker who refuses Borat a dog after he asks, 'How do you recommend I cook this?' and a doctor who is nonplussed by Borat's obscene medical history. A supermarket visit offers the most maddening fromage-inspired looniness since Monty Python's 'Cheese Shop' sketch. Also good for a few chuckles are a faux soundtrack commercial and a Baywatch parody ('Sexydangerwatch'). --Donald Liebenson
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Disgusting scene
Anything that could have been funny about this movie was overshadowed by a scene I wish I could scrub from my memory. I never needed to see the fat guy (to be crude) masturbating and a sodomy scene between him and Borat. Unless you want to live with that image, don't get this movie.
Rating:  - "HIGH FIVE!"
Sacha Baron Cohen stars as Borat, a journalist from Kazakhstan who has come to America to make a documentary. While in New York, he sees "Baywatch" on TV and vows to go to California and marry Pamela Anderson. Off he goes across the country, meeting (and insulting) various groups along the way, including Jews, Christians, animal lovers, rodeo fans, fine diners, a doctor, and just about anyone else you can imagine. The vignettes were shot with real people, a la Candid Camera, who react to the ... Read More
Rating:  - Funny
A couple of years ago, in 2006, the biggest comedy hit was a film called Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan. The film grew out of a recurring character on a British television show, Da Ali G. Show, created by Jewish comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. I mention the man's religion because the film attacks Anti-Semitism in a brutally funny way, even as many dull-witted critics accuse the film of that bias. If so, then Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator was ... Read More
Rating: - High Five! This was one of the funniest Fake-umentaries I have ever seen
From the opening scene of Borat walking through the streets of Kazakhstan, introducing everyone in town, including his neighbor, his sister and wife, I knew this movie was just ready to shock.
The crazy misadventures starting in New York city such as thinking that the elevator was his hotel room to freshening up with the toilet water or washing his underwear in the river of New York. We see one misadventure followed by another, as he tricks unsuspecting Americans.
The dinner ... Read More
Rating: - Funniest Movie I've Ever Seen
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 ... Read More
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