Borat, is one of the smartest comedies of all-time. This is mainly due to Sacha Baron Cohen's performance. The character was beyond impressionable. Who here remembers all the Borat Halloween costumes? It was a movie that appealed to nearly everybody. Like how racists can enjoy this movie for its racism, but other people who are smarter than that know that the movie is not actually racist, but is making fun of racism, can enjoy it for that. it's intelligent on a satirical level. But at the same time, you don't necessarily have to understand the satire and social-political commentary to be able to enjoy this movie.

Take away all the intelligent humor and you still have a "Bad Grandpa"-esque film filled with crude humor and funny reactions. But even if that's all that this movie was, it would still be eons above "Bad Grandpa" because this movie took it to the fucking extreme. In movies like "Bad Grandpa," all they had to do to get people to sign the release to show their face, was to appear from behind a curtain after the gag and be like: "'Sup. It's actually Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine. You guys are in a movie. Sign this thing, right? You wanna be famous, right?"

But there is no way that that would fly for a movie like Borat. With the majority of people that had major roles in the film, they got them to sign the release while pretending as if the movie that they were filming was actually a real small documentary and that Borat was a real person. You didn't always need hidden cameras to film the shot because the cameraman himself was a character. And I, for one, think that's clever as fuck. Not only was Sasha Baron Cohen so convincing to his victims because he never broke character, but his genius sense of improv allowed him to create hilarious material independent of what was scripted.

And what I love about the writing is that it wasn't just: "Here's a bunch of scripted scenes that we're going to call the story" and "Here's all the pranks in-between." They made an extra effort to make sure that the scripted parts and unscripted parts meshed together perfectly. Like they knew that he needed to find Pamela Anderson on television as the initial incident, but instead of doing just that, they decided that they could prank someone to get to that place. Hell, a lot of the reincorporated jokes are products of unscripted scenes.

Overall, this is a great film! Check it out! But most likely you already have.