By Katherine Doublet

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. That title alone should immediately give off the impression that you are about to see a comedy unlike any other. Sacha Baron Cohen, the creator and star of “Da Ali G Show”, stars here as Borat Sagdiyev, a beloved news reporter from Kazakhstan. Along with his producer Azamat (Ken Davitian) are sent to the United States to create an ordinary documentary about how Americans live.

However, Borat’s optimistic, oblivious and curious character soon leads him to fall in love with Pamela Anderson (after seeing an episode of “Baywatch”, of course). Though Borat and Azamat were supposed to stay in New York City to film, their plans quickly change so they can venture off to Orange County, California for the sole purpose of marrying the infamous Pam.

As they travel throughout the United States in a cheap ice cream truck, they come across various personalities ranging from a humor coach, fraternity brothers to Jews- all who teach this title character what it means to be an American and, more importantly how to act like.

Borat will most likely offend every audience member in one way or another, but it is his ignorance and misunderstandings of the American culture that will have even the most offended of them laughing at the unexpected events until it hurts. This regularly unstaged feature sets a new standard for comedies and the only people who have spoke out against it, so far, are the government officials of Kazakhstan (who have publicly exclaimed their fierce rejection of the portrayal of both its citizens and customs).

Even though only 837 theatres nationwide premiered the creative documentary this weekend, it still played to full, and even sold-out, houses and hit number one with $26.4 million in ticket sales. As a result of its surprising success, 20th Century Fox plans to expand distribution of the film by placing in into over 2,500 theatres for the upcoming weekend.

GRADE: A