Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan: Widescreen DVD Review

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Title: Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan: Widescreen

Region: One

Genre: Mock Documentary Comedy

Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen

Writer: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, and Dan Mazer

Based On A Story By: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham and Todd Phillips

Director: Larry Charles

Feature length: 84 minutes

Extras: Deleted Scenes, Global P.R. Tour, and Music Infomercial

Languages: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and French, Russian, and Spanish Language Dolby Surround Sound

Subtitles: English Closed Captions and English and Spanish Language Subtitles

Packaging: Amaray Keep Case

Chapter Stops: 24

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Surround Sound

Year of Theatrical Release: 2006/DVD Release: 2007

Theatrical Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox

Home Video Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

MPAA Rating: R

Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera

Sacha Baron Cohen is an amazing comedic talent. He can create characters that are so different from each other that I think he can fool anyone. He is best known in America from the hit HBO series Da Ali G Show, but he has also appeared in other feature films as well as a Madonna music video. A few years back he released a feature film with his Ali G character called Ali G In Da House, but the film was not nearly as funny as his TV show and probably got more viewings last fall only because it was remarketed touting that it featured a scene with Borat, which is true, but the two films are nothing alike. Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan: Widescreen DVD is a mock documentary that has Borat visiting America to make a propaganda film for his homeland, but upon arriving in New York City, Borat discovers Bay Watch and then takes an odyssey across the country so he can propose to Pamela Anderson. The film is very funny and grows on the viewer even more so in hindsight and with repeat viewings.

The widescreen DVD edition presents the film in an appropriately and even surprisingly pristine 16 by 9 enhanced (1. 85:1) aspect ratio with a clear English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Soundtrack. French, Russian, and Spanish Language Dolby Surround Soundtracks are encoded onto the dual layered DVD too along with English Closed Captions for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired and English and Spanish Language Subtitles. The packaging, interactive menus, and even the disc and the contents therein are all made to look like they were created in the character’s home country and extend the illusion created in the movie. There is an Easter egg of sorts that may offend some viewers if you choose the Hebrew language option in the interactive menus.

There are eight deleted scenes presented in a 16 by 9 enhanced widescreen (1.85:1) aspect ratio. They are all very funny and one wonders why they were cut from the film to begin with. These scenes can only be viewed individually and include Borat visiting a Doctor, being stopped by the Police in Washington D.C. and in Texas as well as Borat receiving a massage by a male masseuse, visiting a kennel, receiving customer service at a supermarket, and even a television news broadcast detailing the Rodeo scene from the film. There is also a montage from the global publicity tour, which includes clips of Cohen as Borat attending Comic Con, opening Saturday Night Live, and visiting both Late Night With Conan O’Brien and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. A mock soundtrack spot and Fox comedy DVD trailers round up the bonus features on this DVD.

Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan: Widescreen is available on DVD-video now at retailers on and offline courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

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