On an email group I'm a member of, a woman recently posted an item about Borat, specifically in regard to her absolute and utter loathing of the movie. Free of the significant degree of de-sensitization prevalent among many of the reviewers and members of the general public, reactions like these are out there and may be indicative of Middle America being left out of the loop. Are just as many turned off as turned on to the tune of "You Be My Wife"? Or is this a generational thing, like many parents just didn't get why Monty Python had to use such vile toilet humor and make jokes out of sex and foreigners?

The Borat question of preference, in my mind, comes down to "would you like your broken-English-speaking foreigner portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen, or John Cleese?"

"Would someone of appropriate expertise PLEASE explain to us WHY this movie is so popular and WHY most of the reviews have been good? [Her husband] almost walked out. I thought it was the worse [sic] piece of %!$!$!# film I've ever seen. What am I NOT seeing here? Two hours of my life I will never get back. A part of brain is now irreparably damaged.

"And I'm not stodgy about movies. LOVED Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle! I saw The Kentucky Fried Movie. HIGHlarious. I think I have a very clever and above average sense of humor. I get satire. I understand making fun of ethnic groups, women and gay people if done in the spirit of satire or in making a socio-political statement. Such was not the case, I believe. Making fun? HOW it was done made me ill. (Watching two hairy naked men rolling around fighting in a hotel room in the 69 position didn't make me feel great either. Among so MANY other things.)

"I thought this movie to be on the level with the "Jackass" movies, made for an audience of frat boys and truck drivers (no offense to truck drivers and frat boys...well, maybe the frat boys....) What am I NOT getting here? Please to explain?"