Number of Discs
1
Format
UMD
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States of America
Director of Photography
Luke Geissbuhler, Anthony Hardwick
Reviews
The Sun - The Dog's Borats, The Guardian - A film so breathtakingly funny, so breathtakingly offensive, so suicidally discourteius that strictly speaking it shouldn't be legal, Daily Mirror - The funniest film of the year, if not the decade
Certificate
15
Consumer Advice
Contains strong language and sex references
Additional Information
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 moustachioed 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 mirth-fest. The action begins with Borat travelling 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 BoratÆs encounters with real Americans exactly right. At times the movie threatens to topple over into glorious anarchy, with each situation escalating to ridiculously funny extremes, but Charles knows exactly when to put the brakes on and progress to BoratÆs 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 itÆs almost as if Cohen treats each of these set-pieces as a comedic æbitÆ he is working on, gradually adding further delirium every time he goes back for another shot. Sometimes itÆs difficult to tell who, if any, of BORATÆs participants are actors, but it matters little when the material is this gut-wrenchingly funny, and itÆs testament to CohenÆs talents that heÆs managed to take a marginal supporting character from his TV show and turned him into a genuine cultural phenomenon.
Movie/TV Title
Borat - Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
Sound source
Dolby Digital
Awards
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy 2007 -
Screenwriter
Dan Mazer, Anthony Hines, Sacha Baron Cohen
Run Time
80 mins
