Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Widescreen Edition)
by Larry Charles
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Actor: Alan Keyes, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Sacha Baron Cohen, Spirea CiorobeaDirector: Larry Charles
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Armenian (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Hebrew (Original Language); Polish (Original Language); Romanian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: No limits, no standpoint.
Summary: 2 Stars
Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm going to get 1000 people voting that my review was NOT helpful but I choose to speak my mind anyway:
I'm trying to understand how I as a viewer am supposed to laugh at crunchy college humor (and I do love college humor!) when Sasha Baron Cohen is making fun of individuals who may not deserve to be made fun of? A nice old Jewish couple running a B&B, a harmless gathering of people enjoying culinary arts, hard working hotel employees doing their best to please their customers, an empoverished Romanian village...By all means Sasha, make fun of racists, corrupt politicians, the close minded and anyone we the people love to hate. But in the end he targets anyone he can get his cameras on.
As others who favor this film have pointed out, SBC hasn't come up with anything new here. Nevertheless he has taken it to new heights which requires courage (and a lot of financial support to fight off all the lawsuits and threats against this film as we have seen during the months after the release). And for his courage he does deserve a couple of stars.
DVD Review: Deserves every star of 5
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a late-comer to watching this movie, which has been out for a few years. I had heard so much about it but haven't been in the mood to watch it, till now. Never laughed so hard at anything since Monty Python. Classic mockumentary...but how did he get away with it? Cohen is a comic genius who fills the void that has been so empty for so long. I first came across his brand of satire on the Ali G Show and subsequent movie based on that character. The humour is extremely vulgar, but not trite - many people are really like that. This is high quality comic satire, brutal at times, but genuine social and political commentary that holds a mirror up to our insanity- and many will hate to see themselves as they really are. Yet some people obviously don't seem to get the hook. Cohen's character is every stupid, ignorant bum from every country; it should not be personalised as anti-muslim or anti anything in particular; it is anti-ignorance. As mentioned above, I don't know how Cohen didn't get arrested or beaten up very badly by security guards, especially during the naked wrestling skit- it was priceless. Fortune favours the brave, I suppose, and Cohen is nothing if not brave. Well recommended with the caveat that you need a strong stomach for some scenes, which are certainly over the top. DVD Review: Hilarious But Make No Mistake: It Is Propaganda!
Summary: 3 Stars
I laughed very hard at this movie. I am also a big fan of Sacha Baron Cohen in general. The Ali G show is brilliant and I am looking forward to the movie about Bruno. There is no need to go into the comedic aspect of this film but there is an element of Borat that must be understood whether you love the movie or hated it. That is the fact that it is intensely left-wing and has a very overt political message once you crack through the humor. It is quite a brilliant piece of propaganda actually. First of all, Sacha Baron Cohen is a devout Jew who is playing a Muslim. He is therefore representing Muslims as backwards, immoral, perverted, barbaric and incredibly stupid. This attitude is lapped up by the unthinking American audiences...well, to be fair, I'll say the unthinking audiences worldwide. He is also making Americans out to be imbeciles. The segments in the movie that include actual Americans are filled with repulsive characters like the drunken frat boys and individuals whom he wants the world to believe are average Americans; i.e. people who like rodeos, sports, guns, violence, and are highly unintelligent. It is yet another attack by the Jewish Left on America and Muslims. We are supposed to feel inadequate and inferior and the Muslims are supposed to be perceived as nothing better than apes. As anyone familiar with Jewish history knows this is a common tactic that has been used throughout history to divide and conquer cultures, nations, etc. All I am saying is that there is another level to this movie that each viewer should be aware of while they laugh. Nothing changes the fact that Cohen is a brilliant comedian and this is possibly one of the funniest movies ever made but keep it in context. I can't bring myself to give it five stars, due to the propaganda, but on a purely comedic level it deserves at least that. DVD Review: Sidesplitting. Recommended, with caveats.
Summary: 4 Stars
Sidesplitting. Recommended, with caveats.
I finally viewed this film. I have to say that it made me laugh harder than any film I have ever seen. I love how Sasha Cohen is able to comically highlight certain reactionary political/social attitudes that are prevalent in our society. The best material is when he is making this social critique. The parts that I found unfunny are when he is abusive to those of good will ... the scene at the etiquette dinner party comes to mind. He insults one of the women at the dinner table by saying that the two women on either side of him would both be considered attractive in his nation, but not her. Why be mean about something so personal as a woman's appearance? It seemed just like cruelty for cruelty's sake.
The bag of "poop" that he brings to the dinner table in the same vignette is likewise not funny and in doing so, he is basically expressing contempt for all social protocols. That is boringly base, something from a Tom Green show, not really creative.
I think that Cohen should have decided what type of film he wanted to make and been consistent with his larger vision of a good-willed but incisive social critique. Michael Moore has shown that you can be very funny but still have heart.
That being said, parts of the this film are uniquely brilliant. I enjoyed the intro segment from Borat's "hometown." It was filmed in rural Romania and the authentic setting as a backdrop to the film's absurdist humor made it absolutely sidesplittingly funny. Also very illuminating was the rodeo audience response to his comments regarding the Iraq war; the cheering from the crowd showed a bloodthirstiness that thoughtful people should abhor. The naked fight scene between him and his producer served as a humorous foil to people's homophobia.
Cohen has talent in spades, no doubt. This could have been great, but it needed a bit more tweaking so that only those deserving of volleys would have received them.
DVD Review: Not Politically Correct, But Very funny.
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed the movie besides the subtle hints hidden in there of perhaps a bias towards the U.S.? or maybe just in general? But the movie, The creator and character I don't think are trying to make a political statement, At least not in my belief. It is very funny and provoking, When He chases Pamela Anderson is a favorite scene, when he goes to a Pentecoastal Church is another(Could be offensive, not to me). When He arrives in the U.S. in the beginning ,in NYC and there is all these rude people, and when He talks to A Feminist group.I laughed out loud so bad. Very Enjoyable.
Description of Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Widescreen Edition)
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.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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