Borat

[excoriator]

I tried to watch this film but gave up after about ten minutes.

I didn't like the way it lampooned the people in his country, and found the humour about as subtle as a falling girder. When it resorted to showing him washing his face in the toilet (He doesn't know what it is as he's never seen one before Hahahaha!) I switched off. I guess it's made to amuse Americans.

Not being a film critic, I may well have got it wrong. Perhaps Aubrey who is more knowledgeable than most about film, can tell me whether I should have persisted.

[aubrey]

The real targets are the people he (or a proxy) talks to, like Guiliani.

[excoriator]

It improves then?

[aubrey]

That's the idea. It's not really my kind of humour, but it made Guliani look pretty sick and that's all to the good.

[skylark]

We went to see it at the cinema on a recommendation, and it was excruciatingly bad. Had I been on my own I'd have walked out. It may have been intended to parody Americans but many were incredibly polite to the idiot.