Sunday, November 29, 2020

Borat 2 (2020)

At the beginning of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Sacha Baron Cohen's character Borat has been serving hard time on a work gang for much of the previous 14 years, his earlier film while popular in America had proven an embarrassment to the ruling regime. Borat is given a second chance however and sent to America to bribe the Trump administration, a mission on which he is accompanied by his recently reunited daughter Tutar (Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova, who kind of steals the film). 

It's mostly an updated repeat of the original film, taking on America 2020 the way the original did the United States of 2006. The biggest difference is that the Borat character is now so well known that Cohen often has to layer additional disguise's atop the old Borat persona. I thought the funniest/ most awkward bits in the film had to do with Mike Pence (though not the gage you might be familiar with from the trailer) and an awkward country music song, though the Giuliani sequence got the most press, and probably isn't all that appears to be in the film. Though production started before Covid got to be wide spread here it is well worked into the film, and the topper gage at the end related to it is kind of brilliant. Obviously not for all audiences, but for those it is for I give it ***.

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