Thursday, March 08, 2007

Is-a very nice!
Not a full movie review, just a few paragraphs of MTCW on it.

Curiosity won over us. We checked out - "Borat! Cultural Learnings..." on DVD last Tuesday.

Sacha Baron Cohen a.k.a. Borat, Ali G & Bruno is ingenious.

As Borat, his risky and risque take on taboo subjects and sensitive issues executed with slapstick humor is definitely worth watching. So infectious that Adrian & I are still reeling in bouts of laughing gas days later. Some may find it offensive, repulsive, anti-semitic, discriminatory [to women] but if you watch it with an open-mind; then I guarantee you will be highly entertained.

I think Borat is pop-culture's newest icon and that "Boratism" will find its way into our dictionaries in the near future. His mumble jumbled Eastern European/Hebrew vocabulary is hard to ignore and fits his character like a glove. It's really made for him.

Kudos to those who worked on the promotion of this so called "movie film", as Borat would say. They took their "comedi-ness" (if there's even such a word) seriously down to a tea or rather down to the disc, in this case. Check out the spoof.

Hey! You gave me a pirated Borat film, NOT?! It got me at first. Shame...shame. But that's the central theme, isn't it?! A mockery of everything.

Understanding Borat's "cheapness" and background, he would indeed be capable of doing this. "DEMOREZ" sounds familiar??? Yeah, I have a few of those in my DVD case. Maybe more like Memorex. Gotta love the hand-written font/title on the disc.

Highlights from "Borat! Cultural Learnings..." courtesy of stalin9 (You Tube):



My favorite DVD extras. A Baywatch parody ala Borat style courtesy of MrKraka (You Tube):




To steal his line, "Chenquieh".

2 comments:

Tinsie said...

I thought Borat was a scream, but I prefer Ali G (the TV series, not the movie).

Serenity said...

tinsie: he's very funny in that character too ;)