In his second TV-skit-turned-film – the first being the one-joke disappointment, Ali G in Da House
– Sacha Baron Cohen, playing the, kicks a lot more goals too, slicing
one straight through the goal line at least eight times out of ten.
Granted, most of the bank that Borat
is made - and it pulled in a pretty penny - can be attributed to the
film’s continuous publicity and marketing campaign. Months before the
print was even locked, the film was an instant curiosity because of the
trouble that Cohen had caused whilst filming the movie in the states –
attendees of a Texas Rodeo nearly ate him alive, he was walloped in the
face by a New Yorker for harassment, and was kicked out of at least one
in three of the businesses or homes he invaded – usually for his
anti-Semitic remarks. But more so, its Twentieth Century Fox’s fabulous
marketing of the movie that put bums on seats (and will ensure there
will be DVDs on shelves). From having Cohen tour the globe ‘as Borat’,
to cutting a wildly amusing trailer, they’ve done a wonderful job at
marketing this thing.
Not to say the film itself isn’t funny –
it is; in fact it’s very funny. It’s not the character himself who gets
the laughs per se, but more so the situations he gets himself into.
In the pic, the fictional Kazakh journalist heads to America. He’s supposedly there to
file
a story on the ‘greatest country in the world’ – which is a cue for a
sequence of embellished and droll cultural differences – but ends up
falling in love with a woman he catches on TV, Pamela Anderson. It’s
then that he decides to head to California to wed the ‘Baywatch babe’.
There
are moments in the film that will truly having you busting a gut. A
couple of scenes in particular – one involving a repugnantly overweight
man, completely buck naked, wrestling with Borat – made me laugh so
much I almost vomited. Now that’s a quote you want a poster, right?
Now
that the joke’s out of the bag, and people will know who Borat is when
they see him coming– this time, many took him for a real foreign
journalist– a sequel’s going to be a tough trick to pull off. Not that
they won’t try.
DVD
Extras The Preview
disc we were sent did not include the extras of the DVD, however we do
know that there are five hilarious Deleted Scenes (one of the few times
Deleted Scenes aren't a snore-fest) as well as the amazing footage of
the World Promotional Tour including TV Appearances, News Report,
Trailers from Kazakhstan and more! Conclusion:
Movie 75% Extras: 70% 
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