Title: and the punchline is this...
Review: Plenty of the humor in Borat is funny. Andy Kauffman would be proud that his "foreigner" humor is being recycled so heavily.But there is also a lot of the type of "humor" that makes people laugh because they feel uncomfortable- the same kind of laughter that someone may have when they are being tickled relentlessly, or worse, when someone is being picked on for their flaws (there's a big difference between that and self-deprecating humor). It isn't really funny, it's just embarrassing and/or demoralizing.Besides that, Borat and the other characters of Sacha Baron Cohen work fairly well in small doses, but overall this movie tries way too hard to break out of it's usual 10 minute segment. The movie loses a bit of it's steam half way through.I laughed through plenty of it, but I also left with an unsatisfying sense that the biggest joke in the movie was on the viewer.
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