Borat
Movie Review
2006 · R
Reviewed March 25, 2007
I caught Sasha Baron Cohen doing a Borat sketch on Saturday Night Live awhile back, and found it disappointingly dull—all obscenity, no humor. Now, I have nothing against obscene humor, as long as there’s some humor in with the obscene; obscenity for the sake of obscenity is just boring and puerile. Sadly, Borat is all obscenity, in a juvenile “ooh! he said a dirty word! OMG DID HE JUST SUCK HIS SISTER’S FACE” kind of way. I was neither shocked nor amused; it takes more than a few incest jokes, a slew of homosexual references, and a constant barrage of swear words to hold my interest. Everyone else may like this stuff, but I got bored with third-grade humor after… well, after third grade. After a laughless twenty minutes, my husband and I gave up on this film and went on to Das Boot instead, which was also mostly devoid of humor but who expects a WWII U-boat movie to bring the funnies? Perhaps Borat would have gotten better eventually, but it wasn’t worth my time to find out.
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