Borat Movie Controversy

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Most likely, we've all seen the Borat Movie previews. They're hilarious and I'm waiting for the movie to come out so I can watch it. However, I came across a movie review that denounced this film. Here's the link:
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - ComingSoon.net Movie Reviews

His most compelling argument is that

The point is that the movie's funniest laughs come from people and their reactions, not the material written by Cohen and his crew. Their humor is mean, not funny. Cohen spends the movie gladly accepting the kindness of strangers who accept him, despite his outlandish appearance and demeanor, then he takes advantage of their good graces by turning them into laughing stocks for his audience. Cohen sometimes goes too far to get those laughs, like when he starts breaking things in a Mom 'n' Pop shop "by accident." Tom Green has been doing this same schtick for years and been attacked by critics for it. The only difference is that Borat uses a funny foreign accent, which apparently makes it "more intelligent." Certainly Andy Kaufman had a stellar career doing a similar character without resorting to racial epithets, and Eugene Hutz of New York band Gogol Bordello, an actual Eastern European, plays a similar cartoon character onstage--one slightly modified for Liev Schreiber's "Everything Is Illuminated"--without it being so offensive.

Now there's no reason to argue if this movie is going to funny or not funny, but the moral correctness of Cohen's antics is more controversial.

Discuss... and don't bring up the "free speech" argument because nobody is saying Cohen's humor should be illegal.

[Tap]

is it just me or does this movie not look the least bit funny?

[Kyle Destroyer]

looks funny as hell, big deal if it pisses some one off. It is a movie, a comedy, im sure the owrst that could happen is that five people across the world feel angry for a night and then the next day they will forget about it completly. Come on, I love all of Cohen's films and oh well, If you don't like it for whatever reason, then dont see it. Simple as that. Don't make it affect you if you don't want it to. nuff said

[Metalhead Steve]

Honestly, I could give a shit less about this movie.

[Fuggle]

I love Ali G's Borat skits, you can see them all over YouTube, but yeah they did change it from 2000 theaters to 800, but I will find one nonetheless to go see it.