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Borat in Brief.

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To be honest, for some reason or another, I don't really feel the inclination to write the usual three-paragraph review for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, so I'll just leave it at this: It's really funny. Yes, several of the best moments -- the "war of terror" speech, the "Not" joke, etc. -- are in the ads, but, really, those only scratch the surface of the madness here. (As an aside, why is it that people seem to laugh hardest at jokes they've already heard? Must be an inclusiveness thing. I saw the movie on Friday afternoon with a packed audience, so it's not like these were folks who hadn't caught the trailer 1000 times.) At any rate, unless you're offended by ridiculously over-the-top anti-semitism or have a problem with truly grotesque displays of male nudity, you should find it verrry nice. (But leave the gypsys at home.)

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