I love Borat on the Ali G Show. I loved the trailer for Borat. I figured it had to be really good. There were crowds of people to see it. I had to sit on the floor because the theater was sold out. I was pumped.
But the movie itself was disappointing. While the Borat character works so well in interviews, about half of the movie is Borat setting up plotpoints so that the movie isn't directionless. The segments of plot just make the movie more pitiful and the jokes don't seem very funny when they're not used in a satirical way, as they are in interviews. I just wasn't entertained by a lot of the lame excuses at creating a plot. They were pretty bad. But I must admit that the legitimate Borat moments that included interviews and/or hidden cameras create some of the most genuine laughs created in a movie theater. It's just impossible to gather up all of those moments and create a movie without A) doing what they did here, or B) making a random collection of segments (ala Jackass). Either way the film would not have been perfect. They did what they did and it works for a lot of laughs. It's just not perfect. Hardly.
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