Borat - what more can I say?

[Riko]

i'm trying, i'm trying.

i love the borat character on the ali g show and would love for the movie to be funny. it's just that on the show, the humor lies in borat interacting with unknowing subjects who take what he says at face value and don't realize he's winding them up. the things borat says are very funny, but mostly in the context of there being someone there who's trying to take him seriously. in the trailer, it seemed the humor was supposed to lie solely on what borat was saying, and it doesn't work for me without the key element of the dupe.

i haven't given up on the movie yet, just saying the trailer lessened my enthusiasm.