Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

The review praises the leap to feature length by unleashing Borat on unsuspecting Americans for explosive laughs, especially the extended nude fight scene. It notes the film leans more on scatological gags than deep satire but remains highly effective comedy.

The biggest pleasures lie in watching Sacha Baron Cohen goof off and real people’s incredulity. Plenty to laugh at hard, with relish for the chutzpah of spectacular obscenities like the ‘running of the Jew’.

Cohen has perfected the prank format by placing the outrageous Borat among real people, delivering an endlessly hilarious and insightful look at American prejudices. It is his finest work, a cult classic in the making that should not be missed by those who can handle the offense.

The critic celebrates Cohen’s ability to create squirm-inducing, slapstick, and inappropriate scenarios that expose prejudice while delivering nonstop laughs through physical performance and absurd visuals. The naked wrestling scene and various confrontations are highlighted as peaks of the film’s subversive humor.

The critic calls the film extraordinarily funny, breathtakingly offensive and suicidally discourteous, an anarchic mocu-reality adventure that goes beyond satire. He singles out for praise the real encounters that expose people’s horrified reactions and the surreal rodeo sequence with its absurd national anthem.

The critic finds the film a wildly inappropriate and hilarious mockumentary that uses crudeness to expose the roots of bigotry and ignorance. The naked hotel fight scene is singled out as a highlight of its boundary-pushing comedy.

The film establishes Sacha Baron Cohen as a new master of provocation through his Borat character, whose naive yet hateful worldview leads to hilarious and revealing interactions with Americans. The critic highlights the cruel genius of the satire and urges viewers to see it for the laughs.

The critic finds the film a sharp, brainy satire that uses Borat's outrageous persona to expose American prejudices and stupidity while delivering consistent laughs through slapstick and vulgarity. She singles out the film's pitiless social commentary and Baron Cohen's precise comic timing for praise.

Borat is a textured, intelligent and deeply political comedy that will offend many but delights with its edge and refusal to settle for cheap laughs. The film exposes cultural clashes and controversy while maintaining sharp satirical bite.

The critic calls it an uproariously funny mockumentary whose lead character retains an innocent sweetness that softens the un-PC gags. She praises the brisk direction by Larry Charles and Cohen's ability to generate laughs in nearly every scene while noting it will likely offend some real Kazakhs and the humorless.

The film is a collection of hoax reports as Borat travels across America seeking Pamela Anderson. It indicts real American prejudice and social injustice by presenting the character's fake bigotry as a Trojan horse.

The critic finds Borat the funniest film of the year, praising its unfiltered id-driven comedy and the real, unguarded reactions it provokes from Americans that reveal their own prejudices. The satire is compared favorably to Michael Moore's work but without polemic and with far more laughs.