Borat (Widescreen Edition) [DVD]

funny movie not ment to be taken seriously!

Very Nice Film

Deeply unsettling to watch. Guaranteed to give intense second-hand embarrassment unless you have no shame. Lampoons, parades, and dissects the best and worst of human nature. Also conflicted as to the methods (they used deception on unwitting subjects, for instance). Whether this is a moral film or not, it's definitely transgressive. The kind of thing you can't look away from even though you may want to. Make of it what you will. 5 stars because it's a must-see, at least once.

Better than Crow milk

OK, so by buying and watching this film, I succumbed to all the hype, some of it utter nonsense, that preceded its release. Masterful spin, I'd say. Anyway, unless you are one who takes everything literally and/or are one of those who doesn't appreciate humor that denigrates (What other kind is there?), then you should find Borat hysterically funny but... But what? Well, the word is about that all of the scenes in Borat (except the one with Pamela Anderson) were spontaneous, that is to say that the people meeting Borat actually thought they were contributing to a documentary about America to be shown on Kazakh TV. I'd say that after watching closely several times that while some people may have been caught off guard, others surely were in on the game. Though New Yorkers' reactions to Borat trying to kiss them is entirely believable, some other scenes were not. I can't imagine the scene at the rodeo where Borat butchered the national anthem, nor can I imagine that Borat could get away with defecating in front of the Trump Towers in full public view without being challenged. The scenes toward the end where Borat and his assistant run nude into a meeting of mortgage brokers taxes its credibility as well. Then there is the scene where Borat sleeps next to a campfire on the steps of a mega-church and hasn't been rousted long before the congregation begins to arrive. Come on! Then there is something that perhaps the film's producers missed: Borat's appearance on the evening news in Jackson MS long before he and his assistant got anywhere near Jackson. Watch closely, unless you are geographically challenged, you'll see what I am saying. Beyond all that, there is a lot to laugh at. Sacha Baron Cohen's character causes you to confront some of the crudest and most outlandish stereotypes about others, particularly about Jews. There is the Running of the Jew back home in Kazakhstan where the object is not to let the Jew get the money, there is the idea that Jews can shift shapes and that the new form can be mollified by throwing money at it (must be a peculiarly Eastern European myth, not even the Nazis tried to sell that), then there is the idea that Jews will cunningly kill, eat and rob Christians. The scene where the traveling pair went to a bed and breakfast that turned out to be owned by an elderly Jewish couple is just hilarious. Other stereotypes are confronted as well: about gypsies, about blacks, about gays, about evangelical Christians and even about Southern whites. Some of the scenes tut-tutted in the press as being horrible I see in retrospect as being just cleverly spun, like the scene where Borat asks the gun-shop owner about which is the best gun with which to defend himself against Jews. The owner told him, but he didn't sell him a gun, did he? Ditto the man in the car lot who told Borat what speed would do the maximum damage to a crowd of gypsies with minimum damage to the Hummer that Borat was trying to buy. If indeed the answer was spontaneous, my view is that the car lot owner considered the question a joke since where would one find a crowd of gypsies to plow into in the US? What's my favorite scene? It's Borat returning to the dinner table at a fancy dining club trying to find out where to dispose of the turd he is carrying in a baggie and the hostess then having to show him how a toilet is used. My caveats aside, don't try to read too much social commentary into Borat though its there for those who seek it. While its not clean, its great fun and some of the deleted scenes featured in the bonus section will have you roaring as well. Some of the movie is downright silly, but overall its still one of the funniest I've seen in a while.

This movie is really funny but it’s not for the faint of heart, just watch this you won’t regret it

This movie is amazing. Truly a must-watch. It is hilarious in so many ways; however, on a deeper level, Borat makes you think about what is acceptable in American society and what people will say when they think it is not going to be seen by anyone.

I don't mind jokes that are non-PC, but Borat isn't funny. It's simply full of cruel humour. The set-ups involve people who believe him to be genuinely from Khazakstan and they treat him with kindness and help him. In return he plays cruel tricks on them, including the fact he's a British actor (Sacha Baron Cohen) pretending to be in need of their help. According to Wiki the village (actually in Rumania) that is supposed to be his home village was badly treated "The villagers were paid the equivalent of four U.S. dollars a day each for their appearances and were told the film would be a documentary about the hardships of village life...In the film, some of the villagers are depicted as rapists, abortionists, and prostitutes for Baron's comedy movie" These are generally ordinary people. They are an easy target. They are often not public figures - though he does appear on a 'local-tv' news. For the most part these are people who, in genuinely treating him well should be beyond parody. At least as Ali G Sacha Baron Cohen interviewed celebrities and public figures.

this is my favorite movie of all time, 11/10 it came in great condition and had very funny extra's, my only complaint is that it took a very long time to ship to me, also the product did not come with a dvd cover

This movie was probably most and the highest criticized from Kazahkstan itself. Unrigthfully so. The movie doesn't make fun of Kazahkstan, it makes fun of Americans, in a criticizing way. Kazahkstan is merely used as a platform to show the (of course exaggerated) contrasts between the advanced and 'civilized' America and the simplistic Kazakhstan and how a simplistic man, from such a simplistic place, such as Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen) is capable of pinching right through the advanced and civilized Americans and puts his finger right on the spot. The movie is about Borat learning from America and Americans. for the benefits of his country Kazakhstan but the question raises; Shouldn't America and Americans also learn from simplistic countries such as Kazakhstan, for their own good and benefits? Just like in Michael Moore movies often is the case, Borat knows to put his finger on the right place and manages to show America how it really is. An uptight, patriotic, homophobic, God fearing, anti-social country, in which minorities still have a hard time and not all rights are considered equal to some. It's funny, in the interviews it often is not Borat who says the most offensive things, it are the interviewees who do so, such as the rodeo-guy and the frat boys. But no, the movie is not all criticism. For most part it's just a fun and often also hilarious people about making fun of ignorant people. In all honesty it's hard to tell how much of the movie was actually improvised and how much of it was real. Obviously some sequences were scripted such as all the scene's in Kazakhstan and some other sequences will make you really doubt. Some of obviously planned the camera-positions are often too coincidental and also the fact that the movie had an actual professional director attached to it, makes you really wonder. It also is hard to imaging that all those people actually took this silly talking and looking character so seriously as they did in this movie all the time. When a person who wears his underwear above his pants and is talking slang is entering your hotel with a camera-crew following him, wouldn't you crack up, realizing that this just can't be for real? The movie is also edited in such a way that the emotions and reactions get exaggerated. It's also are the reasons why you can't really call this movie a fake documentary or mockumentary. What I loved about the "Da Ali G Show", in which Borat often made an appearance, was that it was improvised, real, often had no point and was all about the responses of the other person on the Sacha Baron Cohen characters. It was fun to see the peoples reactions and how they did respond to the character and its outrageous and often also offensive questions. This movie is overwritten in my opinion. The movie has a main plot line in in, in which Borat falls for non other than Pamela Anderson and makes it his personal mission to find her and marry her. In my opinion the improvising way of traveling through the USA and meeting and interviewing people would had worked way better, in both terms of criticism and humor. Now some parts in the movie feel planned and acted, which is definitely not Borat's strongest point. It also again raises the question of how much of the movie is actually improvised and how much of it was planned, though I definitely believe that most of the interviews and Borat with other people were for real. Ironic, since it was the screenplay that was actually being nominated for an Academy Award. But all this criticism aside, this is a very fun and also often hilarious movie to watch. Some of the situations Borat gets himself into are priceless and the reactions from the ignorant persons are even more hilarious. They often don't know how to cope with this odd talking and looking character from the far away and insignificant country of Kazakhstan. There are a couple of especially memorable sequences, such as when Borat and Azamat wrestle naked in their hotel room, after Azamat's 'hand-feast' and then start running naked through the hotel, elevators and eventually ending up wrestling naked in a convention room with hundreds of people in it. There are a couple of more hilarious and memorable sequences but no one really matches up to that moment, that totally catches you completely off guard. It's all fast paced, which makes sure that you'll probably laugh your way non-stop trough this movie. A perfectly fun and amusing movie that also has some striking criticism, that could had used some less story and perhaps should had been more like the show.

La pelicula esta totalmente en español de españa, para mi asombro aunque es el formato italiano en cuanto la puse en el reproductor me aparecian los menus en español..... Los extras en ingles, pero eso es normal en casi todas las peliculas, subtitulos en español.

HILARIOUS MOVIE

Borat ë il film piu famoso di SBCohen. Non il migliore secondo me (che se ne dica, il Dittatore é il suo vero film, non solo perché sia l'unico esplicitamente recitato) ma quello che ha definito il suo personaggio e la sua sana e liberatoria voglia di controvertire il senso comune. Qui ci riesce a tratti, e quando lo fa riesce veramente a incidere (gli incontri con le femministe, con i bifolchi del rodeo, con i commessi del supermarket) e gli succede proprio nelle scene meno fatte apposta per colpire, che invece risultano proprio quelle più finte e banali (gag un po alla Striscia la notizia, tipo l'incontro cin Pamela anderson, la corsa nuda in hotel). La forza dell'autore/attore é quando realmente utilizza il suo personaggio per fargli dire cose che lui non potrebbe dire e far uscire dalla bocca degli altri parole e comportamenti che rivelano certa ipocrisia, certo vuota correttezza politica, o certi lati oscuri dell'America. E allora in quei casi funziona tanto la gag urlata che quella sottile. Negli altri casi, invece, siamo piu dalla parte del suo film peggiore, Bruno, che é tutto un giocare con i facili cliche del gay esagerato ma simpatico, che diventa una scusa per rifugiarsi nel kitsch poi dozzinale, in un trash che vuole sembrare intelligente. In fondo, come diceva Dario Fo, la volgarità non é nella parolaccia o nell'azione in se, ma in tutto cio che offende l'intelligenza. In Borat a volte l'intelligenza é provocata, presa in giro e in fondo stimolata, in altre semplicemente svilita. Comunque molto divertente nel complesso e molto piu da salvare che da stroncare