I think it was way less "stupid comedy" than I thought it was going to be. Yes, it had some of the slap-stick and ridiculousness...but it was also a VERY honest look at Americans.

All of those people that he was encountering were REAL people, not actors... the song he sang in the country-western bar? The one that made you cringe and then feel horrified when the crowd starts MERRILY SINGING ALONG? Those are real people. The guy at the rodeo, advising him to change his name/the way he talks so people don't think he's a terrorist? A real person. The people swearing at Borat and being jerks on the subway? Real people.

I actually think that, below the weirdness, it's a commentary about the America that the rest of us like to ignore. We like to pretend that our country's beyond the anti-semetic, sexist, homophobic and racist place that it used to be...but in some places it's just not.

It made me really think about were we live It was a brilliant film.