10 Movies Way Better Than They Have Any Right To Be

An entertaining yet fairly one-note bit from Sacha Baron Cohen's early-noughties Ali G Show who nonetheless produced some brilliant interview send-ups, the character of Borat Margaret Sagdiyev was destined for television and fated to be forgotten by the next decade. Indeed, nothing about a British comedian pretending to be an anti-Semitic Kazakh should work for more than five minutes. And yet...

In 2006, Borat took to the streets and homes of the USA and surprised everyone with an endlessly rewatchable adventure on the silver screen. The film is laugh-a-minute and fresh as all hell. Though feigned for laughs and utilised, often brutally so, as a tool to disarm the prejudiced Americans he comes into contact with, Borat's naivety wholly endears him to the viewer, and we find ourselves swept up in his drama and awkward cultural adjustments as if they are real.

Unlike Jackass, however, Borat has failed to maintain the same level of relevancy in the subsequent decades, and 2020's Subsequent Moviefilm was a low-key car crash in real time, charting the demise of the character as his widespread recognition prevailed.

Thankfully for us, Baron Cohen's This Is America took the basic format and used it to create a hilarious yet eye-opening expose of the contemporary US of A. Very nice!