Borat (2006)

This is a moderate movie. Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Cohen) lives in a poor village in Kazakhstan and is recruited by a government officer to visit America to experience the culture and get ideas on how to improve their own economy. He starts out in New York and while watching television becomes infatuated with Pamela Anderson from Baywatch and decides he will travel across the country to Hollywood to find her. While taking a road trip with his producer Azamat Bagatov (Ken Davitian), he discovers the culture and hospitality of Americans.

The first half of the film is all right, but the second half is awful, starting with the hotel scene. There are a few funny moments, but I am surprised people took him so seriously. I was also amazed they found so many racists and I feel bad for some of the people tricked by him. The foreign languages in the film are neither Russian or Kazakh, but actually Hebrew and Armenian. Lebanon was the only Arab country (out of twenty-five) that did not ban it, and the Russian government told theaters not to play it.