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Borat: ...Kazakhastan
Movie Stats & Links |
Starring: |
Sacha Baron Cohen,
Ken Davitian |
MPAA Rated: |
R |
Released By: |
20th Century Fox |
Web Site: |
www.boratmovie.com |
Kiddie Movie: |
Only if you want
them twisted for life. |
Date Movie: |
Only if the both
of you laughed at the trailer. |
Gratuitous Sex: |
Almost, and it was
really gross, not that anything was wrong with it. |
Gratuitous
Violence: |
Nah. |
Action: |
A chase scene, in
the nude. |
Laughs: |
Nearly an hour and
a half worth. |
Memorable
Scene: |
As gross as it
was, the naked scene. |
Memorable
Quote: |
Way too many to
list. |
Directed By: |
Larry Charles |
Produced By: |
Sacha Baron Cohen,
Jay Roach |
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for
Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
A Movie Review |
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The wonderment is already out there: What scenes in "Borat:
Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious
Nation of Kazakhstan" were genuine, and which were staged?
Some parts are pretty easy to figure out that Borat (Sacha
Baron Cohen) and Azamat (Ken Davitian) are acting to keep
the story moving along to keep up with the end plot of the
movie (that being Borat wanting to take the virginity away
from Pamela Anderson), but for the most part "Borat" ends up
being a bizarre look at bigotry, racism objectification of
women, political correctness, political incorrectness, and,
oh hell, society in general. Pretty much like Sacha
Baron Cohen has been doing with his HBO series for a few
years now. Here’s the basic run-down…
Borat is supposed to be a television commentator in
Kazakhstan. We are introduced to his village where everyone
hates his neighbor, his sister (whom he makes out with) is
proud of being a great prostitute, and his wife threatens
that if Borat cheats on her she will chop off his cock. In
any case he has been charged with filming a documentary in
the United States to see how life here can help the people
of Kazakhstan. At first Borat is just supposed to hang
around New York City and interview people, but he also keeps
living like he did in the old country, I guess, as he washes
his clothes in Central Park, takes a dump in an
inappropriate location, and jerks off in front of store
windows, in full view of the public. Then, in his hotel
room, he is watching a rerun of "Baywatch" and falls in love
with C.J. (and who wouldn’t). He learns C.J. is actually
Pamela Anderson, and Borat decides to take his documentary
cross-country on the quest for his true love.
Along the way Borat continues his documentary, finding
himself at a Gay-Pride Parade, a religious revival, a rodeo,
a high-society dinner, in a camper with fraternity dudes,
and a host of other locations where Borat can show people at
their best, and at their worst. And you would think it
wouldn’t be easy for Borat to show people at their worst,
but for this film it’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel
as people tend to show their attitudes about race, women,
foreigners, and the right for a man to buy a gun to shoot a
Jew if he wants to. And, oh yea, there’s also some nude
wrestling, but not the kind I was looking for.
I really don’t want to give too much away about this
movie only saying that it has the potential to offend the
shit out of you, especially the beat-down Jewish people get,
but I suppose everyone gets their share of bashing in this
movie, and it’s especially seen in the prejudice of many of
the people Borat interviews along the way. But somehow Borat
is able to help you see the prejudices, how ludicrous they
are, and it made me laugh.
I would like to think the entire film only had two people
acting in it, those being Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat and Ken
Davitian as Azamat. IMDB also lists comedian Luenell, and
has Pamela Anderson as uncredited, which does make sense in
the grand scheme of the movie. What is sort of scary is the
rest of the grand scheme of the movie and the fact that the
rest of the folks on screen either A: Signed away a release
of their actions without reading exactly where it was being
used, or worse B: Signed away a release of their actions
knowing exactly where it was being used (although I could
see the college fraternity kids signing away their rights in
either case). For me, though, the movie is funny as hell, as
well as a little sad, but I’ll tell you what, if some
stranger approached me on the street trying to kiss me on
the cheeks, I would probably run away from him as well, no
matter if his intention was just to say "Hello."
If the thought of a movie having a scene called "The
Running of the Jew" appalls you so much that seeing
it during a film would have you walk out, well, you might
want to save your money and not see "Borat" because, well,
you’ll only see about 5 minutes of the movie. But if
anything in the trailer for the film made you laugh my guess
is you already understand the humor in the movie, and let me
assure you, the trailer doesn’t even show the best parts.
It’s 4 ½ stars out of 5 for "Borat: Cultural Learnings of
America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." It
would have been 5 stars except as funny as the nude scene
was, it didn’t involve Pamela Anderson.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!!
L8R!!! |