Borat

Officially titled "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan", this is undeniably the most offensive, repulsive, yet painfully funny movie of the year. For the 20% of you on this list that will see "Borat", you'll laugh out loud. The other 80% of you will wonder what is wrong with the rest of us.

Sacha Baron Cohen stars as Borat, a fake reporter from Kazakhstan doing a fake documentary on real people in America. His ambition is to take what he learns in his travels across our country and return home to improve his own former Soviet state. Half of the movie itself focuses on the filming of the documentary while the other half revolves around Borat's infatuation with Pamela Anderson. Helping him film is his producer Azamat (Ken Davitian). There are scenes between these two that provide some of the funniest, but disgusting, moments of the movie.

How Cohen got the people he fooled to agree to be in the movie is the truly amazing part. While the joke is on them, it's their own American human nature that is their worst enemy. The truth hurts, but Borat's innocent demeanor only highlights the hilarity of our own behavior. For being such a short movie, there were points that got monotonous and repetitive. Overall, though, "Borat" is a hilarious comedy for those of you who can stomach such things. I give it an A-.

"Borat" is rated R with a running time of 84 minutes.