Indeed, the man who invented Borat is a masterful improviser, brilliant comedian, courageous political satirist, and genuinely experimental film artist. Borat makes you laugh but Baron Cohen forces you to think.
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10/31/06
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
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Reviews Counted:204
Fresh:186
Rotten:18
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: Jagshemash! Borat gets high-fives almost all-around for being offensive in the funniest possible way. Part satire, part shockumentary, Borat stars Sacha Baron Cohen as the gleefully sexist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic title character on a cross-country trek to learn more about our strange nation; along the way he dredges up the seamy underbelly of American prejudice and ignorance. Now the cat is out of the bag, what will Cohen do for an encore?
Theatrical Release:02-11-2006
Synopsis: Jagshemash! Sacha Baron Cohen, the star and creator of HBO's "Da Ali G Show," brings his Kazakh journalist character Borat Sagdiyev to the big screen for the first time. Leaving his native... [More]
Reviews for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make...
181 - 200 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Plucky, uproarious and totally uncompromising.
10/31/06
A joke is never funny when you have to explain it. Either you get why Borat is hilarious or you don't.
10/30/06
It's consistently double-over-laughing hilarious, never an easy feat when you're extending a comedy sketch into a full-length film.
10/30/06
[Borat] is equipped, like an F-15 Eagle, to engage multiple targets at once.
10/30/06
Is Borat the funniest comedy of the year? Almost certainly -- but what's the competition?
10/30/06
Borat is an obscenely terrific comedic treasure of a film, and it furthers Cohen's agenda to reveal America's large collection of boobs and bigots.
10/29/06
Borat is an equal opportunity offender that doesn't insult your intelligence.
10/28/06
Politically reactionary: the satire attacks the kind, the vulnerable, the 'little guy,' not the more appropriate satiric targets, namely the rich, the powerful, the corrupt.
10/27/06
Borat will make you laugh till it hurts, and you'll still beg for more.
10/27/06
The jokes hit hard and almost too often making your own laughter serve as earplugs for half of the film.
10/27/06
[Baron] Cohen melds the pranking of "Jackass," the punking of "Punk'd," the satire of Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and the inventiveness of Mel Brooks to create an original brand of comedy that stands alone as a defiant manifesto for compulsive laughs.
10/27/06
What makes Borat a riot isn't its socio-analytical acuteness, but rather Cohen's gift for establishing circumstances at once squirm-inducing uncomfortable, slapstick-stupid, and insanely inappropriate.
10/26/06
Nothing's safe from Cohen's sophisticated satire, disguised as backwater idiocy.
10/25/06
You will certainly laugh a whole lot, but will you still respect yourself in the morning? Maybe. Maybe not. For me, it proved to be a risk well worth taking.
10/20/06
Don't count out Borat to be above more straightforward practicality or participating in the most intestinal-dropping, gut-smashing bit of cough-inducing hilarity of male bonding ever committed to celluloid.
10/19/06
There are a lot of blue state folks who are offended by Cohen's portrayal of Kazakhstan as a backwards country of idiots. Hopefully, Cohen will find a way to make fun of these fun-hating cretins in his next picture
09/28/06
Evil comedy, a new genre, has arrived. The bar has been raised and is flying over everyone’s head. A fearless comedy.
09/28/06
Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius, and his new film is a comedic masterpiece.
09/27/06
It's scathing satire, audacious, ridiculous and screamingly riotous -- but it's not mean-spirited. It's just funny. Good heavens, is it ever funny.
09/27/06
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