directed by: Larry Charles
written by: Peter Baynham, Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines
starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell
seen: 22nd July, 2009
Well, I don't know, I wouldn't say I'm strait-laced when it comes to film, but what is too much is too much. Or rather when there's too little, it's not enough for me to laugh. The film as a whole seems half-baked (one bear's head in a fridge does not make a rushed concept good). It's too confident: it lays one gag after another and has no other plan than that, it keeps everything so simple that it almost looks like it's not trying at all.
Maybe my assumption is wrong and it's not a comedy, just an absurd, surrealist-ish skit about human stupidity. It doesn't generate amusement in me. And I wouldn't say that it's perverse or distasteful (as some say that it is). I would say that it's mostly just plain sad like a little pitiful Borat in his red pyjamas in an ice cream truck in the middle of a neglected meadow after his dreams were shattered.
All and all, my ego refuses to let its guards down before this fake Kazakh. And I really expected him to wear the green swimsuit a bit longer since it's in every promo picture ever.
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