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While hardcore Borat fans will inevitably be disappointed by the recycling job, the greatest surprise in “Borat” comes from Cohen’s new emphasis on crude slapstick humor. That’s not to say that the “Jackass”-style antics in the film (nude male wrestling, a live bear in an ice cream truck, the attempted abduction of Pamela Anderson) aren’t funny, just that it doesn’t take a comedic mind of Cohen’s caliber to decide that a fat naked...
...vast majority of the Americans that Borat meets, despite some fairly staggering failings, are polite almost to a fault (New York City pedestrians excepted). People indulge his nonsensical, offensive, and otherwise non sequitur comments, often responding to even the most ridiculous statements with a tactful “well, we really don’t do things like that over here...
More often, his subjects play along with startling nonchalance. When Borat asks which type of car he should buy to attract a girl with “a shave down below,” the dealer barely skips a beat before responding, “what you want is a Corvette.” This straight-talking instinct makes for good comedy, exposing the American id in all its potential hilarity, and brutality...
...When Borat asks which firearm would be most suited for shooting a Jew, a gun salesman answers with similar assuredness, and points him towards an appropriate weapon. Another American urges Cohen to shave his mustache so that he looks less like “terrorist.” Upon hitching a ride from a caravan full of frat brothers, amid the generic male jostling, one youth takes the chance to gripe to Borat about how minorities are always “on top” in the United States. The shouts of support when he yells to a crowded stadium...
...Borat himself is not immune from the racism and fear he exposes in Americans; his character is unrepentantly anti-Semitic, in a completely hyperbolic fashion. It’s apparent from the fictitious Kazakh “Running of the Jew” festival, and Borat’s terror at unknowingly accepting a room at a bed and breakfast run by a sweet old Orthodox Jewish couple, that he has no real idea what a “Jew?...