Borat

2006

Action / Comedy

160
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 90% · 219 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 463761 463.8K

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Plot summary

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev 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.

Director

Larry Charles Photo
Larry Charles

Top cast

Sacha Baron Cohen Photo
Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat
Pamela Anderson Photo
Pamela Anderson as Herself - Autograph Signing
Luenell Photo
Luenell as Luenell
Ken Davitian Photo
Ken Davitian as Azamat
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651.17 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 91
1.30 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 100+

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Benjamin-M-Weilert 8 / 10

An unscripted mockumentary that ranks in the best of the genre.

As far as mockumentary films go, Borat (2006) is at least in the top five. It may have not been as groundbreaking as This Is Spinal Tap (1984), but its use of real people's reactions to a parody of Eastern European stereotypes still shocks today. Perhaps having experienced some of the American sub-cultures that were mocked is what makes those parts of this film funny to me. It certainly has its gross-out moments, but Sacha Baron Cohen's performance is iconic.I think what makes Borat one of the best mockumentary films is its unscripted nature. Sure, they wrote Borat's dialogue in such a way as to provoke people (or get them to open up about their own racism/sexism/homophobia). However, the responses from these people feel completely genuine. The ones who accept Sacha Baron Cohen's bit and try to play their part straight are perhaps the funniest moments in the movie. Plus, I don't know if I can trust ice cream trucks after watching this.While a lot of this movie is funny, the sexual and scatological jokes haven't aged that well. I never cared for the extended sequence of two naked men wrestling through a hotel when I watched this movie the first time, anyway. For such a short film, some sequences seem to go on a bit too long past the point of being funny. I wonder if they just left the camera rolling long enough for these people to incriminate themselves and didn't want to cut anything from that footage. At any rate, this mockumentary borders on an unflinching documentary of cringe-worthy American sub-cultures. And if we can't laugh at ourselves, then maybe we're taking a movie like Borat too seriously.An unscripted mockumentary that ranks in the best of the genre, I give Borat 4.0 stars out of 5.
Reviewed by trevorlitchfield-93554 6 / 10

Painful

Painful to watch but at times extremely funny. Cringingly hilarious, embarrassingly painful.
Reviewed by mjstellman 7 / 10

An Appalling Masterpiece

The laughter is genuine even when I was appalled at what I was laughing at. Is Sacha Baron Cohen a genius of sorts or the biggest smart ass to hit the screens in a long, very long time? He makes John Waters appear like an (old) Disney product. The nastiness works because it is immediately recognizable and his targets live next door if not with me between my four walls. It is a social-horror-documentary. The three guys talking about women between beer and beer was so horribly real that I wanted to leave the theater laughing and screaming at the same time. Borat is not tender about his own background either. He is an equal opportunity offender if I ever saw one. The world is a cesspool and nobody is immune. Even his innocence is corrupt. I've been considering seeing it again, as the whole thing in one single disgusting lump was too much to take but I'm not sure I want to. I'll wait for the DVD where I'll be able to select and discard. My only question is now, what will Sacha Baron Cohen do for an encore.

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