Some of the PC police on here might not like it but its funny...From www.nypost.com:
"...Borat, a fixture on 'Da Ali G Show,' is not only unfamiliar with indoor plumbing and hotels - he mistakes an elevator for his room and takes a dump on the street - but he's unapologetically crude, sexist, homophobic and, probably most controversially, a raging anti-Semite.I can understand sex jokes, and bathroom humor, but antisemitism?The film opens with Borat gleefully introducing his village in Kazakhstan (actually filmed in Hungary), where he boasts his sister is the No. 4 prostitute, a neighbor is a rapist ('naughty, naughty') - and where he provides commentary for 'the running of the Jew,' an event in which giant papier-maché puppets are attacked, along with their offspring.
My jaw was hanging open the first time I saw this scene..."
"...Baron Cohen, an observant Jew whose committed performance as a gay French race-car driver in 'Talladega Nights' was so good it was like he was acting in a different movie than Will Ferrell, inhabits Borat like no actor in a comic role since Peter Sellers. He rates an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, at the very least.Sort of like Woody Allen?The star is also one of five credited writers on 'Borat'..."
"...The film opens with Borat gleefully introducing his village in Kazakhstan (actually filmed in Hungary), where he boasts his sister is the No. 4 prostitute, a neighbor is a rapist ('naughty, naughty') - and where he provides commentary for 'the running of the Jew,' an event in which giant papier-maché puppets are attacked, along with their offspring..."On the other hand, from ronbosoldier.blogspot.com:
"...After viewing this movie at Universal Studios in Orlando yesterday, Ronbo gives this mock documentary a five star rating for gross political incorrectness towards the Muslims.The best scene was the 'Running of the Jews' in which the pronounced anti-Semitism of Islam is mocked..."