After arriving back from the US of A on Monday morning and discovering that it was, in fact, the middle of the night; and that the middle of the night was to be my midday, I had to find something to tire myself out with. Two options were available: Run around the block continuously; or go to see Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Going to see the movie was the correct choice, as it turns out, because I laughed so hard that sleep was a natural follow-on from watching the film.

Completely un-politically correct; rather partially factually incorrect where the government of Kazakhstan is concerned, this movie is a farce of epic proportions which is also an interesting social commentary in and of itself. Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comedian who plays Borat and is, it is worthy of pointing out, Jewish, manages to show up a lot of modern civil societies quirks and cracks in the process of making you laugh.

The most famous of Borat's social highlighting comes via the casual hatred of Jews, especially when he can get seemingly civilized folk to agree with him. Homosexuals, women and Muslims are just some of the other folk in for a pasting by Borat - funny in and of itself, but scary when you see perfectly straight faced people agreeing with him.

More innocuous, but still worthy of note, are some of his excesses in simply walking up to and greeting people in the street - it perhaps shows how paranoid a society we live in that the reactions ranged from threatening violence to running away in sheer panic. In fact, I'm surprised Cohen survived the filming of this movie - singing "Kazakhstan is so great... All other countries are run by little girls" to the tune of the American National Anthem alone nearly got him killed.

Still, it's best to view Borat's movie as a sheer farce, and on this level each set-piece sketch is pulled off to perfection within the bounds of the unscripted cast of unwitting extras. At 83 minutes the movie is perfectly timed - you couldn't keep physically laughing for that long, even if Cohen and Co could manage to keep the gags coming for longer than an hour and a half.

The movie is well worth going to see. Turn off your paranoid politically correct sensors - in fact, when you emerge from the cinema you should go online and laugh some more as you read the scribblings of idiots who fail to turn off their racist amplifiers and whom seem to take Borat quite seriously when he says women can't write books.