BORAT: Ramblings of the Dumbest Movie of 2006.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan |
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| Genre: Comedy | Year: 2006 |
| Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen; Ken Davitian | Writer: Sacha Baron Cohen; Anthony Hines; Peter Baynham; Dan Mazer |
| Rated: R | Director: Larry Charles |
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| Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) and Azamat (Ken Davitian) leave Kazakhstan to make a documentary of the Greatest Country In the World! The Kazakhstani duo chose the beautiful United States of The Americas for their documentary. Along the way, Borat and Azamat argue, meet interesting people, and very uninteresting people. Borat becomes obsessed with making Pamela Anderson his bride, rather than documenting the United States of the Americas. | |
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So far, every review says this movie is awesome!!!!! It’s so funny that you will pee your pants whilst wondering how you can travel across country and physically assault Pamela Anderson. Hey, we all have that fantasy, don’t we? This movie was so boring, that aside from two grown, fat, hairy men wrestling in a motel room and Pamela’s hottie-totties, I seriously considered gouging my eyes out.
Why does everyone except me think this movie was hilarious? Every review, magazine and online, I have read said this was a funny, almost charming movie.I did not see the charm.
What I saw was two men, both hairy, one fat, spending a lot of time walking around. They fumble through America’s insane and widely various land of diversity, and try to assimilate our oddly American culture of anti-cultures.
Then I started to see other points in the movie. The Kazakhstani Borat looks like an idiot for our amusement. And we are only amused because he and his people are not like US. They are farmers and workers and eat the whole cow, not just the beefy parts. So, Americans, who already believe we are superior because our political and religious and media rhetoric make us believe that, get to laugh at the bumbling and fumbling of two men from a different culture.
All my own ramblings aside, there is a deeper and more disturbing point to this movie. One I realized is probably why I really hated this movie.
This movie is not about laughing at two men (like, Dumb and Dumber—there is comedy!). This movie is about laughing at an entire culture of people.
I didn’t like that, myself.
But, hey, go watch the movie, if only for Pamela’s ta-tas. Or, go watch it for the two hairy ugly men wrestling naked in the motel room. Whatever floats your boat.
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