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DVD : Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Widescreen Edition) |
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List Price: $14.98Amazon.com's Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.99 (33%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543419693
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 06, 2007
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 2105
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: November 03, 2006
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Description:
Sacha Baron Cohen brings his Kazakh journalist character Borat Sagdiyev to the big screen for the first time. Leaving his native Kazakhstan, Borat travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.
Amazon.com:
It takes a certain kind of comic genius to create a character who is, to quote the classic Sondheim lyric, appealing and appalling. But be forewarned: Borat is not 'something for everyone.' It arrives as advertised as one of the most outrageous, most offensive, and funniest films in years. Kazakhstan journalist Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen reprising the popular character from his Da Ali G Show), leaves his humble village to come to 'U.S. and A' to film a documentary. After catching an episode of Baywatch in his New York hotel room, he impulsively scuttles his plans and, accompanied by his fat, hirsute producer (Hardy to his Laurel), proceeds to California to pursue the object of his obsession, Pamela Anderson. Borat is not about how he finds America; it's about how America finds him in a series of increasingly cringe-worthy scenes. Borat, with his '70s mustache, well-worn grey suit, and outrageously backwards attitudes (especially where Jews are concerned) interacts with a cross-section of the populace, catching them, a la Alan Funt on Candid Camera, in the act of being themselves. Early on, an unwitting humor coach advises Borat about various types of jokes. Borat asks if his brother's retardation is a ripe subject for comedy. The coach patiently replies, 'That would not be funny in America.' NOT! Borat is subversively, bracingly funny. When it comes to exploring uncharted territory of what is and is not appropriate or politically correct, Borat knows no boundaries, as when he brings a fancy dinner with the southern gentry to a halt after returning from the bathroom with a bag of his feces ('The cultural differences are vast,' his hostess graciously/patronizingly offers), or turns cheers to boos at a rodeo when he calls for bloodlust against the Iraqis and mangles 'The Star Spangled Banner.'
Success, John F. Kennedy once said, has a thousand fathers. A paternity test on Borat might reveal traces of Bill Dana's Jose Jimenez, Andy Kaufman, Michael Moore, The Jamie Kennedy Xperiment, and Jackass. Some scenes seem to have been staged (a game Anderson, whom Borat confronts at a book signing, was reportedly in on the setup), but others, as the growing litany of lawsuits attests, were not. All too real is Borat's encounter with loutish Southern frat boys who reveal their sexism and racism, and the disturbing moment when he asks a gun store owner what gun he would recommend to 'kill a Jew' (a Glock automatic is the matter-of-fact reply). Comedy is not pretty, and in Borat it can get downright ugly, as when Borat and his producer get jiggly with it during a nude fight that spills out from their hotel room into the hallway, elevator, lobby and finally, a mortgage brokers association banquet. High-five! --Donald Liebenson
On the DVD
'Global Visitings' captures Borat-mania in all its hype and glory, as Sacha Baron Cohen, never breaking character, promotes his film around the world. On the itinerary is Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the Toronto Film Festival, a now-legendary screening aborted after a projector malfunction. A mixed bag of deleted scenes finds Borat trying to bait more unsuspecting citizens, including an animal-control worker who refuses Borat a dog after he asks, 'How do you recommend I cook this?' and a doctor who is nonplussed by Borat's obscene medical history. A supermarket visit offers the most maddening fromage-inspired looniness since Monty Python's 'Cheese Shop' sketch. Also good for a few chuckles are a faux soundtrack commercial and a Baywatch parody ('Sexydangerwatch'). --Donald Liebenson
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Borat is #1 movie film in all Kazakstan history
Borat is one of the funniest movies I've ever watched. I gladly place it in my top ten. It's also very clever and thought provoking in the sense that it challenges society by reflecting upon where we have been. The film exposes the ignorance of bigotry throughout the film by poking fun at it - and it is very funny, indeed!
Rating:  - Couple of laughs, mostly tedious
I don't understand the national fascination with this. A few toilet jokes are funny, but the gross-out humor grows wearisome, as does the accent. Don't expect much and you won't be too disappointed.
Rating:  - Not A Bad Movie
This Was A Really Funny Movie To Me. The Thing That's Stupid About This Movie Is? Borat Travled From Kazakhstan To New York For Interview's, Then He Saw A Show That Had A Girl Named CJ AKA ''Pamela Anderson'' So He Traveled From New York All The Way To California Just To See A Porn Star.
That Really Killed The Comedy Routein, But It Was Pretty Funny. The Most Disgusting Scene Was When Borat Was Fighting His Friend Totally Naked. UGH, I All Most Puked, Even Though That Was A Real Funny ... Read More
Rating:  - Nothing new, fresh, just played out toilet humor....flush
This movie is different, but it's not funny. It's just stupid. I think comedians try so hard to be funny and do something different that they get out of touch with what's really funny. Listen, people will still laugh at good old fashion stuff....we're not zombies....we don't need shocking stupidity to make us laugh. Borat may be an original idea, but ends ubruptly after awkward scenes and oddities that made me realize i was just staring at the screen...no shocked, not laughing....just bored. Here's ... Read More
Rating: - I wasn't offended
But I was BORED. Not impressed at all. I think Cohen is actually very funny and inventive - I also think he could have done much better than this. Don't worry, I "got it", just fine - I need nothing explained to me. But in the end it was just . . . bad. The only thing I laughed at was the sound the chicken made when Borat threw his satchel to the ground in frustration. Seriously, that was the ONLY time I laughed.
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