Review of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) by Blert — 03 Nov 2006

D.L. calls this film "racist to the core," which is a fair charge. Borat in his diatribes against Jews is racist through and through...until you take off the fake mustache and the bad suit to discover the British and Jewish Baron Cohen, who has been brave enough and witty enough to confront the racism lurking behind the veneer of American culture, pulls it into the limelight of a major film, and leave us ashamed for who and what we are.

Borat tries hard to be the biggest idiot in the world, but he can never quite compete with his unwitting co-stars, few of whom are brave enough to stand up to him and many of whom exceed Borat in bigotry.

Whether you find Borat's character hilarious or disgusting (and my vote is for the hilarious), you'll also leave the theater with a gnawing in your stomach that one of those idiots standing beside Borat could easily have been you.