Public and Critical reaction to the new movie Borat?

Last week saw the release of a new film entitled Borat. If you have seen the movie I would like your thoughts.

Some have praised this film as a groundbreaking piece of work. An example of progressive and relevant film-making that is both clever and absolutely fearless. Some praise Borat as a ingenius creation, that Sacha Baron Cohen (the comedian who plays Borat) is a Sellers-esque performer and improvisor. There are those who believe that while the film is ''hilarious'', but also presents a very unsettling look at western civilisation and today's PC environment, cleverly exposing Hypocracy and home truths that many didn't know existed.

However there is the view that this film is just a one-joke mess, devoid of wit, mascarading as a clever version of MTV's Jackass. That the film is offensive, crude, juvenile and sadistic.

Is Borat a masterful triumph in new age film-making, or is the film a truely ugly piece of cyncism and vulgarity?

What do you think?

Public and Critical reaction to the new movie Borat?hp

There were several scenes that made me want to throw the cell phone of the kid sitting in front of me, then a few seconds later something made me laugh so hard I almost shot Dr Pepper through my nose. The film shows that there are several aspects of our culture that contradict how we present ourselves, or at least how we feel we are. For instance, he uses the terms dirty Jew and chocolate face to describe people which and reasonable person would be disgusted by. But everybody laughs when he talks about killing gypsies with a Hummer. And the funniest part of the movies involves a large, LARGE amount of frontal male nudity.