It's the dog's Borats
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has released his new movie - which has a very long title - in which his character, Kazakh TV presenter Borat, is the star.
Joke's on you ... British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as Kazakh TV presenter Borat in America. In Baron Cohen's movie, Borat picks on members of the American public, most of whom think he's a real person who is making a documentary for Kazakh TV and not an actor. In one scene (pictured above) Borat - who is sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic - travels in a donkey cart pulled by several women with a donkey sitting in the back as a passenger.
By VICTORIA NEWTON
Showbiz Editor
October 06, 2006
IF you thought the film There’s Something About Mary was sick and shocking then I wouldn’t recommend Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan.
It is quite simply the most shocking, offensive, tasteless, politically incorrect movie I’ve ever seen.
In fact, I’d go so far as to say it is THE most appallingly crude and shocking movie ever made.
But it was so deliciously evil I laughed from start to finish. It has to be seen to be believed.
It tells the story of Kazakhstan TV reporter Borat Sagdiyev, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, who takes his bad English and diehard prejudices to America to make a documentary about life in the USA.
The comedian and his camera crew were so convincing that many real-life people in the movie failed to spot Borat was a made-up character.
That’s what makes their reactions priceless. His clueless ways lead to small-minded individuals showing off their own stupidity to the camera — and making themselves look even dimmer than Borat himself.
The film begins in Kazakhstan, where Borat shows off his home village. He proudly introduces the villagers (“This is town rapist, naughty naughty”) and introduces his sister as “No4 prostitute in all of country,” as she holds up a trophy.
Borat is accompanied by his obese producer, Azamat Bagatov, who can’t understand why they are crossing the USA in an old ice cream truck instead of doing the interviews scheduled on the East Coast. He doesn’t realise his colleague has discovered his true love while watching reruns of Baywatch on TV — Pamela Anderson.
So he sets off to California where he plans to get Pamela in the Kazakh “wedding sack” and give her a plough.
His interview with a group of feminists revolves around his belief that a woman’s brain is the size of a squirrel’s. He is terrified of homosexuals yet happily practises his homeland’s manly customs of men kissing and wrestling in the nude.
He takes hip-hop lessons from black youths, tries to buy a gun as protection from Jews and gets a CHEER from the (brainless) Americans at a rodeo by chanting: “May George Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq!”
One of the highlights is when he invites a black prostitute to a dinner party full of religious conservatives.
He ends up in a naked mud wrestle with another man.
It is rare to get a comedy so laced with social commentary — and therein lies the real genius. Sacha has found a way to make a statement about the world through the ignorance of others.
This movie is the dog’s Borats and deserves an Oscar.
Without doubt it’s the best film to come out of Kazakhstan since Three Goats And My Sister 2.
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has released his new movie - which has a very long title - in which his character, Kazakh TV presenter Borat, is the star.
Joke's on you ... British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as Kazakh TV presenter Borat in America. In Baron Cohen's movie, Borat picks on members of the American public, most of whom think he's a real person who is making a documentary for Kazakh TV and not an actor. In one scene (pictured above) Borat - who is sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic - travels in a donkey cart pulled by several women with a donkey sitting in the back as a passenger.
Showbiz Editor
October 06, 2006
IF you thought the film There’s Something About Mary was sick and shocking then I wouldn’t recommend Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan.
It is quite simply the most shocking, offensive, tasteless, politically incorrect movie I’ve ever seen.
In fact, I’d go so far as to say it is THE most appallingly crude and shocking movie ever made.
But it was so deliciously evil I laughed from start to finish. It has to be seen to be believed.
It tells the story of Kazakhstan TV reporter Borat Sagdiyev, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, who takes his bad English and diehard prejudices to America to make a documentary about life in the USA.
The comedian and his camera crew were so convincing that many real-life people in the movie failed to spot Borat was a made-up character.
That’s what makes their reactions priceless. His clueless ways lead to small-minded individuals showing off their own stupidity to the camera — and making themselves look even dimmer than Borat himself.
The film begins in Kazakhstan, where Borat shows off his home village. He proudly introduces the villagers (“This is town rapist, naughty naughty”) and introduces his sister as “No4 prostitute in all of country,” as she holds up a trophy.
Borat is accompanied by his obese producer, Azamat Bagatov, who can’t understand why they are crossing the USA in an old ice cream truck instead of doing the interviews scheduled on the East Coast. He doesn’t realise his colleague has discovered his true love while watching reruns of Baywatch on TV — Pamela Anderson.
So he sets off to California where he plans to get Pamela in the Kazakh “wedding sack” and give her a plough.
His interview with a group of feminists revolves around his belief that a woman’s brain is the size of a squirrel’s. He is terrified of homosexuals yet happily practises his homeland’s manly customs of men kissing and wrestling in the nude.
He takes hip-hop lessons from black youths, tries to buy a gun as protection from Jews and gets a CHEER from the (brainless) Americans at a rodeo by chanting: “May George Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq!”
One of the highlights is when he invites a black prostitute to a dinner party full of religious conservatives.
He ends up in a naked mud wrestle with another man.
It is rare to get a comedy so laced with social commentary — and therein lies the real genius. Sacha has found a way to make a statement about the world through the ignorance of others.
This movie is the dog’s Borats and deserves an Oscar.
Without doubt it’s the best film to come out of Kazakhstan since Three Goats And My Sister 2.
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