Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Most people think so. 80% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 90%.

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture. Wikipedia ↗

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a 2006 British-American mockumentary comedy directed by Larry Charles, starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakh journalist who travels across America with his producer Azamat, played by Ken Davitian, ostensibly making a documentary about American culture but actually attempting to track down and propose to Pamela Anderson after seeing her on Baywatch. Borat was a cultural earthquake — Sacha Baron Cohen stayed in character throughout production, conducting real interviews with unsuspecting Americans whose reactions to Borat's outrageous racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism revealed uncomfortable truths about American prejudice and politeness. The film generated diplomatic protests from Kazakhstan, multiple lawsuits from participants who claimed they were deceived, and a cultural conversation about the boundaries of comedy.

The naked hotel fight between Borat and Azamat, an extended sequence of graphic, deliberately revolting physical comedy, was one of the most shocking scenes in mainstream comedy history. Borat earned $262 million worldwide on a $18 million budget and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.