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Journalism Culture Clash Fish Out of Water Media Misfit Society Disorder Racism
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Comedy Fake Documentary
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Contemporary 21st Century
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Teens
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, 2006

Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Pamela Anderson

Directed by: Larry Charles

Written by: Sacha Baron Cohen

Language: English, Romanian, Hebrew, Polish, Armenian

Country: USA

Runtime: 84 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:7.5

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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan can be described as witty, humorous, and biting. The plot revolves around journalism, media, and culture clash. Its comic aspect comes from slapstick humor and grossout humor. Its main genre is comedy. In terms of style, it is a fake documentary and has a road movie structure. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. It takes place in contemporary times. It is based on a TV series. The movie has received attention for being original, controversial, and essential viewing. It is well suited for teens. Note that it involves nudity, sexual content, and profanity.

Summary of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Sacha Baron Cohen brings his Borat character to the big screen with this feature length adaptation of his American exploits. Fans of DA ALI G SHOW will already be familiar with the devilishly simple Borat formula, in which the heavily mustachioed TV host from Kazakhstan dupes a number of unwitting citizens into revealing their deepest prejudices, and this movie takes that premise, stirs in a little narrative structure, and serves a side-splitting 84-minute mirth-fest. The action begins with Borat traveling to America alongside his producer Azamat Bagatov (Ken Davitian). After a hotel room viewing of BAYWATCH Borat decides he must travel to California to woo Pamela Anderson, so he and the long-suffering Azamat take a cross-country road trip in an ice cream van, encountering some funny, disturbing, and deeply strange individuals along the way.

SEINFELD producer Larry Charles lends his directing talents to BORAT, and he gets the balance between the loosely threaded plot and Borat's encounters with real Americans exactly right. At times the movie threatens to topple over into glorious anarchy, with each situation escalating to ridiculous (and ridiculously funny) extremes, but Charles knows exactly when to put the brakes on and progress to Borat's next encounter--although the police are called at the tail-end of one memorable sequence. Keen-eyed viewers will notice some repetition from the TV show, with Borat once again going to a rodeo and again taking etiquette lessons, but it's almost as if Cohen treats each of these set-pieces as a comedic "bit" he is working on, gradually adding further delirium every time he goes back for another shot. Sometimes it's difficult to tell who, if any, of BORAT's participants are actors, but it matters little when the material is this gut-wrenchingly funny, and it's testament to Cohen's talents that he's managed to take a marginal supporting character from his TV show and turned him into a genuine cultural phenomenon.

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Language:	English, Romanian, Hebrew, Polish, Armenian
Country:	USA
Release date:	4 August 2006
Runtime:	84 min

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Sacha Baron Cohen

as Borat Sagdiyev

Pamela Anderson

as Herself

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Rolling Stone

You won't know what outrageous fun is until you see Borat. High-five! Full Review

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by: Peter Travers

Chicago Tribune

Borat is a rarity: a comedy whose middle name is danger, or as the Kazakhs say, kauwip-kater. Full Review

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by: Michael Phillips

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A fun must see movie. You like! That said I found Sacha's character Borat gets a little old towards the end of the movie. I enjoy his Da Ali G Show more mainly because the skits are shorter & intermixed with his other, equally entertaining,... Read and rate it

21.January.2011
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by: chrissnave
chrissnave rated this movie0/10

This movie definentaly deserves the 5 stars because it is hilarious. This is another movie that is just funny because of the things he says and the people are totally oblivious to what is even going on, i'm really surprised that they didnt really... Read and rate it

21.September.2010
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by: Cody Crook
Cody Crook rated this movie0/10

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