Movie Review - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) - 4 Stars
There’s nothing about this movie that isn’t in bad taste; whether it’s the exploitation of the Kazakhstani culture or Sacha Baron Cohen’s ability to make anyone seem ignorant and foolish (though, that probably wasn’t that hard in some cases, here). I don’t, however, mean that as a bad thing. This movie is hilarious. It’s more than just “laugh-out-loud-funny”; it’s “laugh-so-hard-you-start-making-snorting-noises-funny”. And it’s all the real people that make it. There really is nothing better than the shadenfreude of seeing uncomfortable people trying to accept what they see as “foreign”.
