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This movie is just not funny at all. Plain and simple. Not funny. Worst movie I ever seen. It has a bunch of random retarded stuff, a lot of crude stuff, and bizarre disturbing scenes. I understand why Russian governement band it. It is too offensive towards everybody. AWFUL!

This movie is just not funny at all. Plain and simple. Not funny. Worst movie I ever seen. It has a bunch of random retarded stuff, a lot of crude stuff, and bizarre disturbing scenes. I understand why Russian governement band it. It is too offensive towards everybody. AWFUL!

This movie is just not funny at all. Plain and simple. Not funny. Worst movie I ever seen. It has a bunch of random retarded stuff, a lot of crude stuff, and bizarre disturbing scenes. I understand why Russian governement band it. It is too offensive towards everybody. AWFUL!

When will the people that listen to Limbaugh quit drinking his poison Kool-aid . Wake up people. WBR LeoP

I have to say that Borat was only banned in the Cinema. Its freely available to watch on DVD, both legit and copied in Russia. However, my Russian GF, who loves the English dubbed Borat Tv sketches (as do the many of our ex pat Russian, Armenian and other Eastern European chums here in Japan), hated the Russian language only dubbed movie. THe movie is only available in Russian language in Russia on DVD, as is a great many other DVDs, which is a shame.

Perhaps this was also a constraint of the government? To make the only available edition as unfunny as possible?

Ironically, the Russian dealers in Moscow and St Petersburg told me Borat wasnt banned in Kzakstahn..only the main cinema chain wasnt showing it.

I have a hard time picturing any kind of film being unavailable in Russia, at least in DVD form. I used to see new U.S. movies at the market at Izmailovo before their release in the U.S. I wonder if any of that has changed?

Some interesting details in this article, but no answer to the question "why Russia banned Borat". Lipman merely makes the point that the banning of Borat contradicts earlier freedom of speech, as well as the current xenophobic policies. Which is kind of a confused way of saying that Russia could be getting less free and is an xenophobic as ever. Oh yeah, and there's a lot of piracy going on.

Actually, in a sly, deceptive sort of way this movie makes the average American feel good about himself. Here's a silly-looking fellow from a weird culture speaking with an outageously funny accent. He so weird and alien to our ways that he and everything he stands for becomes totally dispensible - we could shoot him and feel no remorse at all. And Kahaksthan, or wherever the heck he's from, I think it's time we bring some sort of democracy into that pathetic little place, don't you!

The film would not translate well into Russian, and the ethnic slurs would be taken "straight" by too many people. It is a more dangerous movie in Russia.

Also, while Cohen, in explaining his "art," says that Kazakhstan is a stand-in for any faraway country little understood in the West, in Russia, Kazakhstan is a very well-known, next-door neighbor country.

Kazakhstan is already sensitive within the context of the former USSR to being made fun of for its supposed backwardness, and is eager to prove that it's a sophisticated, up-and-coming country. It's also a major ally of Russia.

That's just the way things are done in this part of the world - when something is bad, as Borat is for Russia (its purpose of "exploring prejudices" is lost in cultural and linguistic translation), the government speaks out against it.

What I don't understand is why so many people accept the trashing of Kazakhstan as incidental to Cohen's intended purpose of revealing Americans as racist jerks! He could have just as easily made up a country---nobody in America ever heard of Kazakhstan anyway (WP readers excepted). Why create such a crude cariacature of a country? As far as anti-semitism goes, Cohen could have used Poland or Ukraine as his country with much more accurate results.
I'm not going to see the movie since all the clips I've seen so far have been gross, unfunny, and full of wildly cliched stereotypes. But, then, I've never been big on gross-out humor. I just don't see what was so brilliant about Cohen lampooning racist and antisemitic bigots; they're in every culture to some degree. Find me a country that doesn't have problems with racism and bigotry---I'd love to move there.

The writer of this article is obviously unaware of the vast cultural differences that separte our country from Russia. They have a sad lack of knowledge about the situation in Russia and have the typical self-righteous attitude that some americans hold- that all other countries should conform to our cultural and political standards.

Jagshemash!! America greatest country in world! When you do pyramid, can I be on top?

I haven't seen the film but what I've gathered so far is this: a British Israelite is poking sidesplitting fun at cultural leanings of Americans at the expense of the people of Kazakhstan.

The idea, apparently, is to insinuate that the cultural leanings in Great Britain or Israel are vastly superior.

Now, Americans may well possess their ugly side while the folks in Kazakhstan may seem rather unsophisticated by comparison indeed. But what makes the UK & Israel so high and mighty, eh?? The former is nothing but US pawn, while the latter has been the source of bloody trouble in the Middle East for 60 years now. Kazakhstan, on the other hand, is a peaceful nation that's done nobody no harm.

What's all the farce about?

One of the great ironies of Cohen's anti-semetic Borat character is that he actually is speaking Hebrew when he speaks in what is supposed to be his native language of Kazakhstan.

Am I the only one here that thinks people are seriously over thinking this movie? The fact is, no matter what you do in comedy, you will invariably offend someone or some group. Get over it. If you found it funny, great. If not, great. That is your opinion and you are entitled to it, just as others are entitled to theirs. Maybe you don't see it, but sitting there calling each other idiots and the like, only emphasizes the point he was making....americans as a whole, are not that bright.

Americans should be outraged at this film which relentlessly mocks their lifestyle in typical British fashion. But instead we laugh at it b/c we don't take ourselves as seriously as Brits and Ruskis.
Rather than anti-Semitic, Borat is actually anti-Muslim in his stereotyping of Jews. Of course Borat can only do those jokes b/c he is Jewish.
Anti-feminist? The feminists mock themselves with very little help from Borat.
But the film is outrageous only b/c it parodies the truth, which is still a rare commodity in Russia.

Jewish propaganda. Screw you.

It is a tribute to the poor, poor state of education the world over, that so many thousands of people do not understand satire. Sarcasm is not the refuge of the weak, it is an extremely powerful tool used to expose the ignorant. If you believed Johnathan Swift really wanted to eat Irish babies, then you are a fool. If you believe that Cohen really thinks Central Asian people tolerate rape, anti-semitism, and drink urine and carry their excrement around in bags, or masturbate in public, then you are a fool as well.

This film exposes not only the ignorance of the America South, but also the ignorance of anyone too unfamiliar with agit-prop satire to be offended by it. Don't be offended by 'Borat's pretend ignorance-be offended and indeed frightened of the actual ignorance he exposes.

He tells a good-ol-boy southern man that "In my country we hang those men (homosexuals) up on the gallows" And the man applauds it, and hopes earnestly to accomplish the same persecution "over here". He also then tells Borat to shave his mustache so that he doesn't look like a 'Musleem'.

This movie needed to be made if not to make us laugh very hard at its constant hyperbole, than to make it abundantly clear how ignorant and racist, anti-semitic, and ugly some Americans can be.

Education will fix this in one generation. Unfortunately, some of those same ugly Americans happen to be running the country, and will keep that from ever happening.

Hurrah for Borat!

LA-

"The point is to preach about the evils of antisemitism, Mr. Cohen is being an Islamophobe. Hardly a record for tolerance nor really that funny anyway."

I honestly don't think I have ever heard Cohen say anything about Muslims, either as Borat or Ali G. You're being a hypersensitive. Ali G is a sendup of Hip-Hop, and usually an effective tool to force funny confrontations with people who think he's a fool but are unwilling to say it to his face, maybe in part because of his assumed identity.

Besides, if any group is deserving of mockery in this post 9-11 world, it's the muslims.

As Americans you are by now used to comedy always being over-the-edge. All nations are not.Please try to imagine a broadcast of, for example, any present "south park" episode in the US in 1975 and the outrage that would follow. The Russians are in that position today. Freedom of expression is a serious problem in Russia but this is not about that. The reason stated by the Russian authorities is that the movie is "offensive to certain peoples and religions" and, you know, they´re right.

Funny. For the first time in the known history Russian authorities ban the film making fun of Americans.

Having seen the movie, I would describe it as a not-very-clever attempt by a Jew disguised as a Gentile, to flumux, charicature, and offend every caucasian ethnic group except Jews.

In other words it is an expression of Jewish anti-Gentilism and is every bit as perverted as its evil twin.

Shame on the movie industry for marketing such an unalloyed piece of crap and on respectable Jewish opinion for not recognizing it for what it is and condemning it accordingly.

Are there any comedians these days still capable of offending everyone equally, or would such a skill be expressly defined out of commedy? Even here in a country where speech is expressly protected [to an extent] by a First Amendment, one may not yell fire in a crowded autotorium, when there is no fire. This movie should be a big hit in Palestine!

The paradox of looking toward our nation's art forms (movies, television, magazines) as a snapshot of the political and social structure of our times lies in the fact that there are inevitably millions of "true" moments. When the truth portrayed about that era is beneficent, the society leaves the theater blissful and proud. When that truth is malevolent, a stain of the fabric of a supposedly-right society, it stirs ill sentiments among large swaths of the populace. There will always be those people who see the snapshot for what it is - a representation of a specific moment and set of circumstances. Provocation can bring out any number of reactions. And artists such as Sacha Baron Cohen and Andy Kaufman were/are out to provoke the reaction, for better or worse. Their art is in manipulating the situation so that their audience will show the "most real" emotions possible. They are trying to make money, of course; who isn't in this capitalist society, where millions go uninsured, hungry and cold? The fact that they are successful, while so many are doing similar works and failing, is what draws the particular ire of the masses to THEM. And it will always be this way...

jagshemash--our two data points cancel each other out then??

The claim that Sasha Baron Cohen, a privileged Cambridge-educated British Jew, chose Ali G, Muslim character, to escape criticism from the other privileged English men and women is indeed laughable. Saying that Europeans (and Westerners) are hypersensitive to Muslim feelings is akin to saying that world in Iraq has been a success. This is the same Europe that drew the Muslim prophet Mohammed with a bomb strapped around his turban and published it in the most prominent Danish newspaper all in the name of freedom of speech, while Holocaust deniers languish in jails. Yes this is the same Europe that is passing a law in the Netherlands to outlaw Muslim women from wearing a veil, even though there are less than 100 veiled women in the entire country. I can go on for a while but why talk about Turkey, the burning Paris suburbs, secret prisons and so on.....

The point is to preach about the evils of antisemitism, Mr. Cohen is being an Islamophobe. Hardly a record for tolerance nor really that funny anyway.

i have no problem with the narrative of this film - just the unethical, exploitative way that cohen took advantage of people to make it.

It's ironic that so many posters say that people will understand this movie isn't true, when a large %age of U.S. citizens still think WMD were found in Iraq. People are gullible, especially when confronted with a movie like this. OF course many will believe it.

In a country where a millisecond glimpse of part of Janet Jackson's breast caused trauma, outrage, penalties, etc.-- someone dares to criticize Russia for feeling this movie will cause offense to ethnic groups?

Here's a link for my colleague in Los Angeles California.

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=antisemitism&ID=SP61003

It is the stupidest movie I have ever seen.
I don't see any funny things in it.
I don't think it is funny to make jokes about a retarded brother or raping your sister. I feel ashamed I paid this Cohen guy and helped him to get rich.I want my money back.

A medal to the fellow who pounded this tasteless weisenheimer in New York! How many unwitting others he ridiculed would have liked to do the same?..

It is frustrating that the number one film in a country which does not understand Moslems, and is fighting a war with them, should be full of misinformation about Moslems. Whatever Cohen is, the country that is presently laughing at him, is still denying that they utterly misunderstand the people who put gas in their cars.

The problem isn't Cohen. Its the americans. Cohen may be a petite racist. But what is he compared to the country that is stirring up a hornets nest of misery and rage in the ME? He is a welcome fool beside that juggernaut.

Why is it that Sasha Baron Cohen chose characters like Ali G and Borat? If you reference interviews by the co-producer of the Ali G show you will find an answer. Ali G was chosen in order to ask politically incorrect questions to upper-class politicians in the UK, being Muslim made Ali G as an interviewer essentially immune to criticism.
Western citizens are deathly afraid to seem politically incorrect in their dealings with the world's 1 billion Muslims.
And yes there are films with Muslim Arab actors that portray Hassidic Jews. And yes these films are invariably antisemitic. They can easily be accessed on many Arab state-sponsored television stations.

Holy crap! Someone called the Borat trash ART. What a miserable excuse for existence is Sasha Cohen. Calling his product art is quite like calling the Bush government honest. Neither is what it is purported to be. I have an idea. Everybody send this lady a comment on your opinion of what the trash actually is. Maybe then she will understand something about Art.

It's a tremendously funny movie that had me laughing from start to finish. And apparently We all could use more humor in our lives.

Is this being the place of the tubes of interblogs, and my producer Azadam tell me I go here for make the comments to the Americans peoples who no life but interblogs.

Art! Not is my film, for I partake to visit all of the various regions and parts of regions, and find there the Americans peoples very much similar to my own, where the womens are worth about one donkey, but the boy childs and plow-dogs fetch four, maybe five donkeys.

I most important learning about the young mens in the south parts of Americas, they so much understand Kazakh values and ways of lifes. But still thinks that the Pentecostals are very strange and would scare good Kazakh farmer, maybe we use as scarecrow?

I most happy of rodeo man I meet and like learn more for how to conduct proper lynchings of the mens and womens who not like values of Kazakh culture. America much to teach on killing bad peoples, and especially George W. Bush drinking bloods of the mens, womens and childrens of Iraq.

But not Art! This real film, we show to all world but not those jerk Uzbekistans.

The problem with the movie is that Sasha Baron Cohen would not stop crying about the poor Jews, how they are mistreated and how everyone is an anti-semite. At a time when American Jews have an inordinate amount of power in the United States and Israel is killing Lebanese and Palestinians left and right, I miss the joke!

The fact that Sasha Baron Cohen's two main indentities also happen to be Muslim, Ali G, a Europe-born Arab, and Borat, a Kazakh, reeks of Islamophobia itself. In a world of great tension between Jews and Muslims , Mr. Cohen is unfortunately aggravating the situation and reinforcing the stereotypes: all non-Westerners are uneducated, misogynistic, xenophobic and anti-semitic.

Yes, I do get that the joke is mostly on (non-Jewish) Americans but we all know what Americans are like, some are stupid and some are not. The scenes in Kazakhstan (really Romania) of generalized regression, however, reflect our own intolerance and xenophobia of things different. There are people living out there around the globe, perfectly decent people, who have never met a Jew and don't know what gays are.

Nothing should be censored but just because something is funny doesn't mean it is fair. I have a hunch all these ravers would be a bit hurt if the main character was a Hassidic Jew portrayed as a retrograde, regressive and rabid Zionist who puts Israel's interests above his own countries', the United States. Portrayed, that is, by an Arab.

Now, let's see how many people will accuse me of antisemtism.

i read the comments (i usually don't), and it is funny how i can (at least i think i can) immediately see who saw the movie and who didn't.
somehow, i think the idea most people got from papers and TV about the movie is so far off the mark that it's surprising that at least SOME people got it...

especially entertaining is the idea that "murdoch is responsible for baroat's popularity". you know immediately that this guy (or gal) did not and will not see the movie, and will forever remain in his (or her) complete misconception.

i think the funniest thing is how the true antisemites can't make up their minds whether they like it or hate it, and are left to scratch their low-hairline skulls and mumble in eternal confusion.

Hmmm. Borat as Samizdat. The world HAS come a long way since the 1980s. Solzhenitsyn, move over . . .

Since Maury Povich began his trash-talk Current Afair in 1986, we have seen a slow decension to hell in entertainment. Murdoch knows no low and I blame him for Borat's popularity (as well as the current political crisis)
Get use to it folks, we now have something called Criminal Captialism with O.J. as your host...

Um. He's not funny--just annoying. What are we even talking about this for.

I laughed a lot at that movie, but I can understand why some in it would be upset.

I think there are more than one or even two levels of butts here. I think the comedy is most powerful on the third:

1. Jokes against Jews and others in the movie

2. The joke on Americans and others who beleive the barbs in #1 above. And,

3. The joke on all of us for getting so worked up at #2 and #1.

This Cohen guy is extremely clever - let's admit it. I don't think his methods (ie feces in the bag) were very fair, but the humor is more sophisticated than we are giving it credit for.

Why is it that merely deciding not to carry a film in Russia is played up as this ominous trend when as you stated anybody who wants that piece of garbage can get it ------------and yet when the USA government tolerates the open and notorious poison torture of its citizens - by the WHISTLING WEASEL GANG - there is not a mention!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------------It seems to me that only the genuinely fearsome oppressors avoid even having their names mentioned....!!!!!

I think people everywhere need to buck up and grow a sense of humor.

OBVIOUSLY this movie was made to be viewed by a westerner, and pokes fun at Russians/Slavs. If the people of Kazakhstan get offended by this movie, who cares. I'm sure that Russians make plenty of movies that Americans or the British find insulting, but you don't see us our governments banning movies based on that fact alone.

Secondly, this art, not art BS has gone quite far enough. This debate could go on for hours as to who is the biggest douche bag, and nothing would be solved. It's a comedy, and whether or not it is validated by any one of you as a genuine artistic expression is irrelevant. What is relevant is that this movie is pretty damn funny. And yes, I do think it will make some money.

Finally, as many people have said, this movie attacks both sides, as any social satire should. Anyone who is offended by this should quit sniveling as it CLEARLY not what any educated person actually believes the people of Kazakhstan to be like. It is an exaggeration. And a silly one at that.

Since when do people take comedy so seriously? That's right, I'm talking to you Russia.

Do you think rascists walk away from Borat thinking, "Gee, I'm wrong!" No, it's the Dave chappelle effect: they find the movie supports ALL of their rascist notions. Russia is trying to protect itself from ANOTHER serious genocide. This movie doesn't help anyone or anything because it is unable to convey it's point. A true sign of bad comedy. What a terribly biased article washington post. Fire that writer.

Sam of Manassas - glad that you aired your "accepting" views on artistic expression.

You don't like it? You don't have to watch it. You don't get avant garde Modern art? Stick with velvet paintings of sad clowns and Thomas Kinkade landscapes. Enjoy Rembrandt because you "should," not because you like it.

That's the beauty of living in America. It doesn't matter what you think of any form of artistic expression - other people can find meaning in it or the beauty behind it, and despite your close-minded views, other people don't have to abide by them, or defer to your white-bread and unimaginative notions of taste.

Borat definitely shows us ourselves, and the only thing it proves is you can still make a penny in the USA by being disgusting. The film show us everything we should be ashamed of about humanity. BUT This isn't genius folks, this is just another freak show, shock jock, making a big buck by showing unadulterated filth. This stuff doesn't make me laugh, it makes me cry.

is propaganda control...reemergenceof the Old Soviet Union. Looks alot like the New United States of hate as a family value.

re: Dave, Philadelphia, PA | November 20, 2006 02:25 PM

Dave, you idiot, GPS was mocking such an attitude (read the very first post).

But don't let ignorance stop you from jumping head first into the ages old "What is sarcasm and why can't I seem to understand it or use it properly?" question.

I hoped that this genre of humor had died with Andy Kaufman, but I was wrong. I didn't watch Cohen when he did Ali-g on cable and I won't be paying to see Borat. To call what he does "art" is the same thing as calling the contents of a garbage can art. Art in the 21st century then has been hijacked by those whose main motivation is to make money by appealing to the least common denominator. Hopefully Cohen will make enough money on Borat to retire.

Correction: as I understand, the article IS written by someone who does know russian culture first-hand, but, and here comes a huge but: this is geared toward american audience who does not.

I seem to remember what a huge outrage caused 2 seconds of Janet Jackon's breast on TV. The offending network was even fined by US authorites. This may seem normal to folks in America, but to someone from Europe it's hard to understand why 2 seconds of someone's breast would cause such an outrage. Now, you in America have no idea why Russians might find this movie offending. So stop talking and looking for political reasons. Cultural differences are sometimes hard to understand. This article is written without any cultural understanding and with lots of bias.

MD -- I'm a fairly PC liberal woman and I loved this movie. LOVED. Gross, sure, but you have to push the envelope to get the kind of reactions he was after.

Thanks to the poster who recommended the SBC interview in Rolling Stone. I'm buying my copy today.

Whether you appreciate or disapprove of Borat, YOU ultimately have the power because you can choose either to go to the show or not. THAT'S freedom. And that's what appears to be in jeopardy in Russia now.

Wow--I had NO idea that I had no sense of humor! I CRIED with laughter at Defending the caveman! I was totally grossed out at the naked pictures of his son, the part where he is taking a crap in the street, the part where he is jacking off while looking at a lingerie display. I went witha friend on the advice of Ann Hornaday, whom I will distrust forever. I laughed at parts, but was willing to cut my losses and leave before it was over, buy my companion wanted to finish it. I am a woman. I wonder if more men than women liked it. Either way, those guys were gross! And to the poster who thinks those without a sense of humor ought to be hung until they cheer up, I am glad to see you learned so much about tolerance from this movie. NOT! FYI--there is no causal relationship between being cheerful and having a sense of humor.

The biggest idiot on the list...me! I should have read GPS more carefully.

I agree with the Russian government. Truth is, Russian people are not ready for this kind of humor. Most common folks there hate gays, Jews, and gypsies as much as the Borat character does. Sexism is the norm, and "retarded" people are shunned.

Borat's comedy is similar to Dave Chapelle's. In the skits, both sides are ridiculed and exposed. Third world attitudes towards women, "retards", and minorit