Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

To this day I'm still amazed Sacha Baron Cohen got away with not only making this film but ever having it released as it is one of the most offensively gut splitting comedies and social commentaries you will ever encounter! For those of you not yet to see it, do so, if only once. For those of you that have...yes...most of it is genuine and on repeated viewings you can pretty much tell what was staged and what wasn't. For instance, there is no way in hell the Pamela Anderson scene could have been pulled off without her being in on it.....no way..Cohen would have been toasted by her personal security. Other scenarios are not so black and white and according to IMDB the police were called 91 times on Cohen during the shooting of this film. I'm not at all surprised and neither will you! What makes this heads and shoulders above your average crass fare is how Cohen assembles the whole thing. There is a story, there are set up scenes to make you feel for the character of Borat and they are AMAZINGLY effective! Also, while being as crude as can be it manages to hold an ugly mirror up to the face of North American society and trust me...what you see is not pleasant. As a side bar, the Kazakhstan language he and Azamat speak are actully Hebrew and Armenian respectively and should anybody know where a translated transcript exists please let me know as I'm told the in-jokes in this aspect of the film are hilarious in their own right. Watch it with a bucket near by because if it doesn't offend you to puke, you will laugh till you barf!