After an hour and a half of pissing my pants laughing at the new Jackass movie, I sat down again, after two bacon and egg burgers, to watch "Borat". Wow, I have never felt so let down by the hype machine. I didnt laugh once. I really REALLY wanted to, but it didnt happen. I was intigued and certainly dont regret renting it. But I just didnt find it all that funny. I was shocked by the Pamela Anderson scene, but only on the premise that it was done without her consent. I find this hard to believe, but I imagine that googling it will only give me a mix of rumour, speculation and proppaganda from teh film company, so I guess I will never know. Its funny, because it is the kind of comedy that I like the best. I have even attempted to pull it off on stage and in person, with varying degrees of success. Dont get me wrong, I get it. I get the idea, I get that America is stupid and worthy of contempt, but I just dont think it was executed very well. I think the Borat segments from the Ali G show were way funnier and maybe he just ran out of good ideas by the time the lure of more movie money grabbed him by the balls. I guess I had hoped for more, I guess, in the current political climate, I had wanted a funny version of farenhiet 911 or something. Instead I got tits, arse and gay jokes, with a little too much anti semitism. If you havent seen it yet, I would skip it, instead, go for Jackass 2, you WILL laugh till you puke, or vice versa.

M